Champions Trophy 2025: After 8 years, there will be a competition between eight teams

Champions Trophy 2025: After 8 years, there will be a competition between eight teams, see the squad of all here

Most of the teams for the Champions Trophy 2025 have been announced. The ICC had declared 12 January as the deadline for this. The BCCI announced the Indian team on Saturday, 18 January. All the teams have announced their squads. Host Pakistan announced the team on 31 January. The Champions Trophy will begin from 19 February.

 New Delhi. After a long wait of eight years, the ICC Champions Trophy will be organized once again. The Champions Trophy was last played in 2017. A total of eight teams are participating in the tournament. A total of 15 matches will be played in this tournament which will last for 19 days. The first match will be played between Pakistan and New Zealand on 19 February. 

All the eight teams for the upcoming Champions Trophy have announced their squads. These include England, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Australia, South Africa, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Pakistan announced its team on 31 January.

Approval will have to be taken for change in the team

The ICC had set the last date for submitting the preliminary team as January 12. However, even after this, teams can make changes till February 13. After this, if any change has to be made, then approval will have to be taken from the ICC. Fans of the two teams whose teams have not been announced will be hoping that their cricket boards will announce their teams soon.

champions trophy 2025 group

Group A

• Pakistan
• India
• Bangladesh
• New Zealand

Group B

• Australia
• England
• Afghanistan
• South Africa

Champions Trophy 2025: Full squad of all 8 teams

England: Jos Buttler (captain), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Saqib Mahmood, Phil Salt, Mark Wood

New Zealand: Mitchell Santner (captain), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Will O'Rourke, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Ben Sears, Nathan Smith, Kane Williamson, Will Young

Bangladesh: Nazmul Hossain Shanto (captain), Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper), Tauheed Hridoy, Soumya Sarkar, Tanjid Hasan, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Mehdi Hasan Miraz, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Parvez Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan, Nahid Rana

Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Ikram Alikhil, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Umarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, AM Ghazanfar, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Farid Malik, Naveed Zadran.

Australia:   Pat Cummins (captain), Alex Carey, Nathan Ellis, Aaron Hardy, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Matt Short, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa.

South Africa:  Temba Bavuma (captain), Tony De Giorgi, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Wiaan Mulder, Lungi Ngidi, Anrique Norkhia, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Rassie van der Dussen.

Pakistan: Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Tayyab Tahir, Faheem Ashraf, Khushdil Shah, Salman Ali Agha (vice-captain), Mohammad Rizwan (captain), Usman Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi

India:  Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja. Dailymintz