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Which side will win the ICC Champions Trophy 2025?

Which side will win the ICC Champions Trophy 2025?

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The wait is finally over! The ICC Men's Champions Trophy 2025 is just around the corner, with the tournament set to kick off on February 19th in Pakistan. The defending champions, Pakistan, will face stiff competition from seven other top teams, including India, Australia, England, and South Africa.

With the teams divided into two groups, the stage is set for some thrilling matches. Group A features a mouth-watering clash between Pakistan and India, while Group B boasts an exciting lineup with England, Australia, and Afghanistan. Who do you think will emerge victorious and lift the coveted Champions Trophy? Will Pakistan retain their title, or will one of the other teams claim the championship?

All Squads for ICC Champions Trophy 2025 below:

Group A

India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja.

Bangladesh: Nazmul Hossain Shanto (c), Soumya Sarkar, Tanzid Hasan, Tawhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, MD Mahmud Ullah, Jaker Ali Anik, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Parvez Hossai Emon, Nasum Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Nahid Rana

New Zealand: Mitchell Santner (c), 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

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

Group B

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

Reserves: Darwish Rasooli, Nangyal Kharoti, Bilal Sami

England: Jos Buttler (c), 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

Australia: Pat Cummins (c), Alex Carey, Nathan Ellis, Aaron Hardie, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Matt Short, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa, (one further player to be added)

South Africa: Temba Bavuma (c), Tony de Zorzi, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Wiaan Mulder, Lungi Ngidi, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Rassie van der Dussen
 
Hitman said:
Go, play with kids of your age. They might take the bait and fall for the trap.
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He's probs an alt similar to dolund trump, or rizwanthet20champ 🤣🤣.

But it's always fun to see these posters pop up randomly and out of the blue.

Don't take him too seriously. They just provide entertainment lol.
 
mominsaigol said:
He's probs an alt similar to dolund trump, or rizwanthet20champ 🤣🤣.

But it's always fun to see these posters pop up randomly and out of the blue.

Don't take him too seriously. They just provide entertainment lol.
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Actually, merit wise the Aussies deserve to win everything under the sun. But I'm just bored of watching them grab silverware after silverware. So, New Zealand winning it would be a change.
 
Hitman said:
Actually, merit wise the Aussies deserve to win everything under the sun. But I'm just bored of watching them grab silverware after silverware. So, New Zealand winning it would be a change.
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Merit wise, Australia don't deserve to win this time.

NZ are likely to replace with Lockie with Duffy.

They would certainly have the most robust squad in the CT then especially now that PAK are without Saim.
 
RidiculousMan said:
@mominsaigol You're from Australia right?

Why you support Pakistan instead of Australia only?
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I support both? But I've supported aus more then pak lol.

1) Aus
2) Pak
3) NZ

^^ These are my 3 favourite. Also don't listen to Indian posters. They created this narrative about me cause they got frustrated for

A) Wc 2023
B) Wtc 2023
C) Ny thread where I asked if India was bunrah or Bust and then they lost BGT and NZ series 🤣🤣🤣.

Hence these wannabe aussie things came into fruition. I'm still pakistani by origin but I live overseas. Same as rana, emranabass, Deadly venom etc.

The reason I like aussie team is because I feel like they do everything correctly while pakistan doesn't.

People like faheem ashraf wouldn't be taken into the aussie team just because their connected to some guy.
 
Hitman said:
Actually, merit wise the Aussies deserve to win everything under the sun. But I'm just bored of watching them grab silverware after silverware. So, New Zealand winning it would be a change.
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Aus won't win it my dude. You've probably seen some comments here and their were I've trolled 🤣🤣.

But jokes aside, they ain't winning it mainly cause their not even interested.

In Australia, all aussie fans atm are only looking forward to wtc and Ashes. Winning Ashes straight after BGT will be a huge boost for aussie cricket since they've

A) Kicked India out of WTC race by winning BGT hence ensuring they face choke Africa and not India who can kick them out.

B) Facing England in Ashes after all their players came back into form with Beau replacing Marsh as the biggest blessing.

For odi they don't care much atm. They got good t20 stocks and test stocks for the future but their odi stocks are in trouble and given how they scheduled a 2 match test series vs sri lanka rather then a 5 match odi series against a team that was in ct shows where their priorities lie.

Yes ik sri lanka test was scheduled even before BGT due to the off-chance aus loses and they can kick India out on a technicality vs Sri lanka, but that still shows where their priorities lie.

Their main focus for 2025 was to kick India out and face choke Africa for easy wtc victory and win Ashes and so far they've achieved 1 out fo 3 objectives.
 
mominsaigol said:
Aus won't win it my dude. You've probably seen some comments here and their were I've trolled 🤣🤣.

But jokes aside, they ain't winning it mainly cause their not even interested.

In Australia, all aussie fans atm are only looking forward to wtc and Ashes. Winning Ashes straight after BGT will be a huge boost for aussie cricket since they've

A) Kicked India out of WTC race by winning BGT hence ensuring they face choke Africa and not India who can kick them out.

B) Facing England in Ashes after all their players came back into form with Beau replacing Marsh as the biggest blessing.

For odi they don't care much atm. They got good t20 stocks and test stocks for the future but their odi stocks are in trouble and given how they scheduled a 2 match test series vs sri lanka rather then a 5 match odi series against a team that was in ct shows where their priorities lie.

Yes ik sri lanka test was scheduled even before BGT due to the off-chance aus loses and they can kick India out on a technicality vs Sri lanka, but that still shows where their priorities lie.

Their main focus for 2025 was to kick India out and face choke Africa for easy wtc victory and win Ashes and so far they've achieved 1 out fo 3 objectives.
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It's not about interest. OZ don't have the players currently.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
It's not about interest. OZ don't have the players currently.
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No team does.

Sa, NZ, Eng, India, Pak, Aus all have major major flaws.

Stark contrast from 2015 where every team besides England and pakistan and minnows looked like they were a jam packed power house unit.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
It's not about interest. OZ don't have the players currently.
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This. Everything else is an excuse. If anyone is ruling them out of contending, it is simply bc they feel that they are not good enough. All of this lack of interest stuff is actually something Aussies would typically take disrespectfully. Their whole culture is to take things seriously. They just simply haven't overall been up to the mark lately. But, they do turn it up in most ICC events so let's see
 
mominsaigol said:
No team does.

Sa, NZ, Eng, India, Pak, Aus all have major major flaws.

Stark contrast from 2015 where every team besides England and pakistan and minnows looked like they were a jam packed power house unit.
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What I meant is they don't have the players anymore to be considered a favourite.

NZ, by contrast, have a squad with batters who are very skilled at ODI batting and many are in form.

Even Pakistan have better batters for the format currently - Babar, Rizwan and Agha are much better than that vulnerable OZ middle order.

Without Warner to open as well, this is a pretty weak ODI team.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
What I meant is they don't have the players anymore to be considered a favourite.

NZ, by contrast, have a squad with batters who are very skilled at ODI batting and many are in form.

Even Pakistan have better batters for the format currently - Babar, Rizwan and Agha are much better than that vulnerable OZ middle order.

Without Warner to open as well, this is a pretty weak ODI team.
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For Australia it's pretty much Travis Head or bust. Rest of the batting is very difficult to take seriously.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
For Australia it's pretty much Travis Head or bust. Rest of the batting is very difficult to take seriously.
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Yep. Warner is gone. In form Marsh with 44/110 stats since March 2023 is injured and out. Smith and Maxwell have declined a lot from their peak versions(Maxwell has only smashed NED and AFG in nearly 3 years), Cameron Green is injured and out.

They look exceptionally weak this time around .
 
If bumrah is fit for entire tournament, India has good bowling unit and one of the favourites along with australia and England ..If it turns out spin supporting pitches then everyone is contention..India won last Icc trophy may be this one is Pakistan's to take as they routinely follow India and charged up looking the silverware in India's hand 😝
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Yep. Warner is gone. In form Marsh with 44/110 stats since March 2023 is injured and out. Smith and Maxwell have declined a lot from their peak versions(Maxwell has only smashed NED and AFG in nearly 3 years), Cameron Green is injured and out.

They look exceptionally weak this time around .
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Smith is in good form. He was hitting out in the BBL too. He is their next best hope.

Maxwell may play one blinder but he is not someone you can rely on anymore.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Merit wise, Australia don't deserve to win this time.

NZ are likely to replace with Lockie with Duffy.

They would certainly have the most robust squad in the CT then especially now that PAK are without Saim.
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Agreed, Nz has the best squad, if only they had Boult too they would have been number one contender.\

Duffy looks average.
 
mominsaigol said:
Aus won't win it my dude. You've probably seen some comments here and their were I've trolled 🤣🤣.

But jokes aside, they ain't winning it mainly cause their not even interested.
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Lol, that's an easy cope out. Ruthless teams try their best to win every tournament, unless the head of CA called you and said the same, you are just living in your own fantasy world.

In order to prepare for CT on Asian pitches, CA went ahead and scheduled two match Odi series with SriLanka.
 
India or New Zeland.

India has advantage as they are playing all games in the same ground. Dubai is a spinners wicket so India picked the right squad for that place. If India manages not to reach the finals, it would be a big surprise.

The other team is New Zealand. Strongest batting line up, but i feel they are a spinner short.

It will all depend on the pitches that will be produced. If you look at the Australian side, they are thinking that flat surfaces are gonna be in play, so they have pacers and batters in the line up.

India will dictate the fate of this tournament at the end of the day. Playing in UAE and with the right squad, its performance will decide whether the tournament will continue in UAE or in Pakistan.

If India loses its games and the semi and finals get shifted to Pakistan, than New Zealand has a team that can adjust to Pakistani conditions and Australia will also come out as a strong as they enjoy these flat tracks.

Pakistan has a garbage lower and middle order so have no expectations from them.
 
Hard to see anyone beating India unless the toss becomes total lottery.

Could be wrong but I don't see Pak qualifying for even the semis. Will O Rourke / Sears will surprise them & India for Pak is almost already a mentally lost cause.

Waiting for blessing in disguise & surgery part 2.0 statements
 
jeeteshssaxena said:
Lol, that's an easy cope out. Ruthless teams try their best to win every tournament, unless the head of CA called you and said the same, you are just living in your own fantasy world.

In order to prepare for CT on Asian pitches, CA went ahead and scheduled two match Odi series with SriLanka.
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How's this, Come to Australia and let's go to CA together. If you wish, I'll even pay for your meals 🤣🤣.

Ik how this country operates. Unlike Indians who's life and blood is Cricket, Australia has other sporting matters to attend to.

It's why it's hilarious that India remains no 2 in cricket despite allocating money, Pulling strings, Tampering pitches, Having an Indian icc member and having their main sport being cricket while cricket isn't even Australia's main sport 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
 
mominsaigol said:
How's this, Come to Australia and let's go to CA together. If you wish, I'll even pay for your meals 🤣🤣.

Ik how this country operates. Unlike Indians who's life and blood is Cricket, Australia has other sporting matters to attend to.

It's why it's hilarious that India remains no 2 in cricket despite allocating money, Pulling strings, Tampering pitches, Having an Indian icc member and having their main sport being cricket while cricket isn't even Australia's main sport 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
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You might get deported in a year, so no, I won’t be coming with you.

Pakistan is not even number 5 despite having cricket as its first sport, that is hilarious.
 
jeeteshssaxena said:
You might get deported in a year, so no, I won’t be coming with you.

Pakistan is not even number 5 despite having cricket as its first sport, that is hilarious.
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First and foremost hockey is the main sport of the country.

Secondly Pakistan is not a developed country that has 250M per year in its pocket nor do they have the luxury of tampering icc pitches during events or asking for favourable venues cause they don't wish to travel.

Lastly stop being aggressive all the time towards me. It's not my fault that I live in aus and moved their from PK. Blame my family not me. Secondly it's not my fault you make claims such as Inglis scored a 50 ball 100 in international test cricket in sri lanka.

^^ seriously when did this happen?

No genuinely? Cause I'm wondering if both of us saw the same match.


Inglis 100 of 50 is something that I'll use against you forever.
 
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GoUgandaCranes said:
Hard to see anyone beating India unless the toss becomes total lottery.

Could be wrong but I don't see Pak qualifying for even the semis. Will O Rourke / Sears will surprise them & India for Pak is almost already a mentally lost cause.

Waiting for blessing in disguise & surgery part 2.0 statements
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Is it a reverse jinx attempt lol India definitely is a tournament team. But having seen the guys who are holding the most important position in the batting line up over the last year this side will be thrashed badly. Not even good enough to play domestic.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Is it a reverse jinx attempt lol India definitely is a tournament team. But having seen the guys who are holding the most important position in the batting line up over the last year this side will be thrashed badly. Not even good enough to play domestic.
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Not really a reverse jinx.

I am a person who strictly believes in merit & hard work & India has put a lot of effort in building a team that steps in as favorite in any tournament no matter where it is alongside Australia (since it's UAE so I'm rating their chances higher than the Aussies). It's a news when Rohits men they don't make it to finals/semi finals & that's credit to them.
 
How is Ind talked of as a fave ? Like seriously ? You have 4 useless leeches in the top 6 - rohit kohli klrahul jadeja. And you expect to win ? Ind would have had a way better chance if they took the current T20 team playing against Eng to the CT. Add in Jaiswal and Bumrah to that and its a quality team. But no, the 4 leeches will travel to Dubai and get their backsides kicked. Hopefully they are then dropped forever.
 
BouncerGuy said:
Pakistan has a chance to win it but I don't think they will... COuld be Australia or India
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Pakistan lack mental strength I feel. The batting usually crumbles under pressure because of lack of rotation.
Bowling also becomes wayward and start leaking runs, and on top of that they are bound to drop couple of critical catches .
 
South Africa has a good team to win the CT this year. If they don't win, I expect Pakistan to win it. It could be South Africa vs. Pakistan in the final.
 
deltexas said:
How is Ind talked of as a fave ? Like seriously ? You have 4 useless leeches in the top 6 - rohit kohli klrahul jadeja. And you expect to win ? Ind would have had a way better chance if they took the current T20 team playing against Eng to the CT. Add in Jaiswal and Bumrah to that and its a quality team. But no, the 4 leeches will travel to Dubai and get their backsides kicked. Hopefully they are then dropped forever.
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Reverse jinxing most likely. Or it's just maybe fans simply unable to separate T20's and ODI's in their minds.
 
Ponting and Shastri predict Champions Trophy finalists

While the greats of the game agreed upon the two teams most suited to feature in the summit clash, they also believe home advantage will hold Pakistan in the right.

Ricky Ponting and Ravi Shastri have named two firm contenders for this year’s ICC Champions Trophy Final.

Speaking to Sanjana Ganesan in a bumper episode of The ICC Review, the duo predicted India and Australia will fight out the final, based on their recent success in big tournaments and star-studded lineups.

While Shastri named England and South Africa as the other semi-finals prospects, the former India head coach tipped the 2023 Cricket World Cup finalists to go all the way in the eight-team tournament.

Ponting agreed.

“It's hard to go past India and Australia again,” Ponting told The ICC Review.

“Just think about the quality of players in both countries right now, and you look back in recent history when these big finals and big ICC events have come around and inevitably Australia and India are there somewhere.”

India and Australia, the two most successful sides in the tournament, having won it twice each in 2002, 2013 and 2006, 2009 respectively, will be looking to add another ICC honour to their ever-growing list of accolades.

The two gigantic cricketing nations also played out the ICC World Test Championship and the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in 2023, where the side from Down Under emerged victorious on both occasions.

But there was another contender in the mix, according to the former Australia skipper.

Ponting believed hosts Pakistan can pose a strong challenge to the two teams.

“The other team that is playing some really good cricket at the moment is Pakistan,” said Ponting.

“Their one-day cricket over the last little bit has been absolutely outstanding.

“We know they're not always the most predictable team in those big tournaments, but they seem like they've sorted things out a little bit.”

Led by Mohammad Rizwan, Pakistan are coming into 2025 on the back of ODI series wins in Australia and South Africa.

In the previous edition of the Champions Trophy, a young Pakistan side, led by the experienced Sarfaraz Ahmed and a sizzling hundred in the final from Fakhar Zaman, combined with a blistering bowling show, pulled off the job at the Oval, and the hosts will be looking to repeat their heroics.

The element of defending champions will also provide some extra energy to the home side, who beat India to their maiden crown in the 2017 edition. The two sides will tussle it out yet again in a group fixture in Dubai on 23 February.

The Champions Trophy will kickstart on February 19 in Karachi with the hosts playing New Zealand in the opening fixture while the final will take place on March 9.

www.icc-cricket.com

Ponting and Shastri predict Champions Trophy finalists

While the greats of the game agreed upon the two teams most suited to feature in the summit clash, they also believe home advantage will hold Pakistan in the right.
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Nikhil_cric said:
Reverse jinxing most likely. Or it's just maybe fans simply unable to separate T20's and ODI's in their minds.
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These so called fans are such a bane. Just see the hype for Kohli playing the Ranji game and the state association doing all the felicitation drama.. Jeez , these guys are playing for Ind cricket team. They are fortunate to represent Ind from 1.5 billion people. They should be grateful for getting the chance to play for Ind not the other way round.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Smith is in good form. He was hitting out in the BBL too. He is their next best hope.

Maxwell may play one blinder but he is not someone you can rely on anymore.
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Maxwell was absolutely smashing it in the BBL too.

I wouldn't read too much into that especially when looking at ODI batting.
 
This CT is about playing 3-4 consecutively good days of cricket.

Bangladesh, Afg, Eng simply don't have the skillsets to consistently beat big teams back to back so discount them from equation. They will play spoilers role but won't go all the way.

For Pak the path is to beat 3 out of India-NZ-Aus-SA. Not impossible but NZ game will be the decisive point. If they can play well and pacers can catch fire which they tend to do against NZ they can set themselves up for a full run. However their chances are less compared to NZ/Ind. Spin bowling stocks are poor and they will struggle to limit teams if the decks are flat. Batting also doesn't have the power to go par plis.

For NZ path in group seems easier. They are better side than Pak with bat and in field and they can go toe to toe with India if pitch is a bit sluggish to neutralize Ind batters. Their troubles will be SA and Aus in the knockouts since both teams match up better against NZ in terms of team makeup and skillsets. Overall NZ have one quality pacer and are banking on their spin allrounders to cover a lot of ground. They have traded bowling cutting edge for batting depth. They would be third favourites for the title.

India is as usual the big favourite in SC conditions. Powerful and deep batting, reasonably ok bowling and quality spin. Only question marks are if they can get caught defending par scores on a dewy night. Even without Bumrah and Kuldeep they have the quality on given day to beat any of the top 5 sides and it will take some high class individual performances to knock them over.

South Africa are more vulnerable in QdK's absence but expecting Stubbs and Markram to stepup and cover. Despite longlist of pacer injuries Rabada and Maharaj can carry attack and if Markram and Shamsi can support on spin they will be perfectly alright and can beat any team easily. They are second favourite after India.

Australia have a high quality spinner, experienced pacers and 2-3 dangerous batters. They are overall a side with lot of holes that they are trying to fill with likes of Stoinis, Labuschagne, Inglis who aren't great fits in ODI game. Contrary to popular expectation their side is makeup wise a lot like Pakistan relying a lot on their new ball bowlers to blow hole in PP and their talismanic leftie opener to get them ahead of rate while their other batters play steady. I would rank their chances equal or slightly better than Pakistan as fourth best.
 
Australia and India will likely be in the semis if recent form and overall ICC record is anything to go by.

The rest of the teams are really fighting for the other two semi spots. It could be any two from England, South Africa, New Zealand and Pakistan (Batting is the key. If we bat well only then we have a chance. Bowling is decent rather than outstanding)
 
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, while speaking to the local media:

"Every teams in Champions Trophy are good. Now it will be tough to say. India, Australia, England, South Africa many teams are good and favourite. Pakistan is also there as the tournament is in subcontinent. Depends upon who will play good that time."

"India has won the T20 world cup, in 2023 India was runner up in 50 overs World Cup. In Champions trophy India will be one of the favourite one of the contender. How India will execute everything depends upon that only. India's Wwhite ball team is very good."
 
IT is a travesty Srilanka or WI for that matter could not be part of it. SL Is far superior side to Bangladesh. They beat India 2-0 last year.
 
We could be watching another India Australia clash in the final with Australia doing the job once again..
 
BouncerGuy said:
We could be watching another India Australia clash in the final with Australia doing the job once again..
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I would take it If INdia scrapes through to final. IN 2023 INdia was favorites out and out. So there was a disappointment. In 2015 not much. Same here. I don't fancy India competing.
 
Are India really that bad? I'm not sure if Indian posters are right or acting like that smart kid from my class who always said that his paper went poorly. And then he would end up with an A and I would end up with a C.

It's an aging team with a number of key stars at the end of the line. But they are still a highly professional unit. How fit Bumrah is will have a huge effect on their chances.
 
Here we go again. All year round, many Indian fans rate Team India as the best and place them above Pakistan. But as the next ICC tournament approaches, the same fans will suddenly become the most humble, trying to put Pakistan above India. Happens every time lol. :misbah :inti
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Are India really that bad? I'm not sure if Indian posters are right or acting like that smart kid from my class who always said that his paper went poorly. And then he would end up with an A and I would end up with a C.

It's an aging team with a number of key stars at the end of the line. But they are still a highly professional unit. How fit Bumrah is will have a huge effect on their chances.
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Some of my fellow Indian fans are acting. As soon as India win against Pakistan, you will see the real side of these fans. :inti
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Are India really that bad? I'm not sure if Indian posters are right or acting like that smart kid from my class who always said that his paper went poorly. And then he would end up with an A and I would end up with a C.

It's an aging team with a number of key stars at the end of the line. But they are still a highly professional unit. How fit Bumrah is will have a huge effect on their chances.
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Rohit, virat and Jadeja have becomes useless. They can't Play Even club level bowlers so how can They will face The international quality bowler's
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A bus driver told that Ranji bowler who taken Virat Kohli wicket prior to that Day "Bhaiya Virat ko 5th stump's pe ball karna out ho jaayega " 🤣🤣🤣

Bumrah is most likely out of The Tournaments and Shami has fitness issue .

@Bhaag Viru Bhaag if we play the current T20 team than we have some chances but not with this current selected team.
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Devadwal said:
Rohit, virat and Jadeja have becomes useless. They can't Play Even club level bowlers so how can They will face The international quality bowler's
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A bus driver told that Ranji bowler who taken Virat Kohli wicket prior to that Day "Bhaiya Virat ko 5th stump's pe ball karna out ho jaayega " 🤣🤣🤣

Bumrah is most likely out of The Tournaments and Shami has fitness issue .

@Bhaag Viru Bhaag if we play the current T20 team than we have some chances but not with this current selected team.
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Hopefully Virat keeps his enthusiasm for fishing till Feb 23.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Are India really that bad? I'm not sure if Indian posters are right or acting like that smart kid from my class who always said that his paper went poorly. And then he would end up with an A and I would end up with a C.

It's an aging team with a number of key stars at the end of the line. But they are still a highly professional unit. How fit Bumrah is will have a huge effect on their chances.
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Difference in formats. We are as dominant a T20 side as there can be after replacing an aging Kohli and a completely useless "allrounder" like Jadeja .

ODI's are completely different . Bumrah is injured. Shami and Kuldeep are both coming back from injury etc.

Rohit and Kohli have only played 3 ODIs since the last World Cup unlike well prepared teams like NZ and PAK.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Difference in formats. We are as dominant a T20 side as there can be after replacing an aging Kohli and a completely useless "allrounder" like Jadeja .

ODI's are completely different . Bumrah is injured. Shami and Kuldeep are both coming back from injury etc.

Rohit and Kohli have only played 3 ODIs since the last World Cup unlike well prepared teams like NZ and PAK.
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You're not wrong. But ODI cricket is still not test cricket. So maybe Rohit and Kohli will find batting a little easier and perhaps not have the same issues they have in the longer format? Just a thought. Personally though, I hope you're right about all of this. :yk

What is Bumrah's actual status btw? If he is injured then why is he in the squad and slated to play the final ODI against England?
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
You're not wrong. But ODI cricket is still not test cricket. So maybe Rohit and Kohli will find batting a little easier and perhaps not have the same issues they have in the longer format? Just a thought. Personally though, I hope you're right about all of this. :yk

What is Bumrah's actual status btw? If he is injured then why is he in the squad and slated to play the final ODI against England?
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It's to test whether he can get through 10 overs at full tilt. If he can't, Harshit Rana will likely replace him in the CT squad
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
You're not wrong. But ODI cricket is still not test cricket. So maybe Rohit and Kohli will find batting a little easier and perhaps not have the same issues they have in the longer format? Just a thought. Personally though, I hope you're right about all of this. :yk

What is Bumrah's actual status btw? If he is injured then why is he in the squad and slated to play the final ODI against England?
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Rohit's selfless intent drama is all about hiding his fitness issues by bashing bowlers in pp and getting out soon after pp as he cant run and stay longer.Kohli can't rotate the strike against the spinners as shown in lanka series. After a long time England bowlers are looking good in both departments. So it not easy for both players to get away.
 
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