IND vs BAN Champions Trophy 2025, Toss and playing XI update for India vs Bangladesh

IND vs BAN Champions Trophy 2025 Playing XIs: Rohit Sharma and Co were asked to bowl first in their Champions Trophy 2025 opener in Dubai as Bangladesh won the toss. Rohit Sharma said he wanted to bowl anyway, and confirmed that Harshit Rana got the nod in the playing XI ahead of Arshdeep Singh, while the three spinners picked were Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav.

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Before the match, Rohit had told reporters that the comment on India taking five spinners for Dubai’s conditions was not quite on the mark. “There are two spinners, the other three are all-rounders,” he elaborated. “I am not looking at them as five spinners. Those three guys can bat and can bowl also. The other teams have fast bowlers and all-rounders. But we work on our strength and try to run the team on that. Those three guys – Jadeja, Axar, Washi – give us a different dimension to the game, to our combination, to our squad. And they add a lot to this team and give us a lot of depth. That is why we wanted to try and get the players who can have two skills rather than one skill.”

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With no dew expected as per the pitch report, batting first might not be the worst option in Dubai as per former England captain Nasser Hussain. “If you go closer to it, it’s not used, there are some mosaic little cracks on there, but in the course of 100 overs, it might get a bit tired and a bit dry towards the end. The other thing just to factor in is the dew here in Dubai, speaking to the groundsman, he says they’ve had no dew here at all during this year so far, so he doesn’t see dew being a problem, it’s a good pitch, scores here in Dubai may be a little bit lower than scores in Pakistan,” Hussain said ahead of the toss on the official broadcast.

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India playing XI: Rohit Sharma(C), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Harshit Rana

Bangladesh playing XI: Tanzid Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto (C), Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Jaker Ali, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman

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