Rohit Sharma to lead India in ICC Champions Prize, Test Title 2025

India’s T20 World Cup winning skipper will remain responsible for ODI and Test groups in the approaching year, BCCI says.

India’s Rohit Sharma, who finished his T20 global vocation with an ICC T20 World Cup win, will lead the group at the ICC Champions Prize 2025, the nation’s cricket board has affirmed.

Rohit will remain on as skipper of India’s Test and one-day global (ODI) groups subsequent to driving India to the T20 title and finishing the cricket-frantic country’s 13-year dry spell for an ICC Men’s Reality Cup prize, the Leading body of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) affirmed on Sunday.

The BCCI’s Secretary Jay Shah said Rohit would lead the side in the 2025 World Test Title (WTC) last and the Bosses Prize.

“After this triumph, the following stage is the 2025 WTC last and the Heroes Prize,” Shah said in a video message. “I’m genuinely certain that we will win both the competitions under the initiative of Rohit Sharma.”

Rohit, 37, Virat Kohli, 35, and Ravindra Jadeja, 35, declared their T20 exit after the success over South Africa in the last in Barbados on June 29.

It was additionally the last counterpart for mentor Rahul Dravid.

Shah adulated the triplet of veteran players, as well as Dravid.

“This was our third last over the most recent one year,” Shah expressed, alluding to the ODI World Cup and the World Test Title.

The ODI Champions Prize is planned to be held in February and Walk 2025 in Pakistan, India’s western neighbor and archrival in the game.

The marquee Pakistan versus India match is planned for Walk 1 in the eastern city of Lahore, which lies 24km (15 miles) from the boundary with India, as per Al Jazeera’s sources in the Pakistan Cricket Board.

For a long time, India’s administration has banished the public cricket crew from heading out to Pakistan in light of progressing political pressures between the two neighbors.

The BCCI has recently expressed that a choice about making a trip to Pakistan for the Bosses Prize will be directed by the Indian government’s recommendation.

India last played in Pakistan in 2008, losing the Asia Cup last by 100 hurries to Sri Lanka in Karachi.

Pakistan, in any case, ventured out to India in late 2023 for the 50-over World Cup after their administration greenlit the visit, opening up the thin chance that India would do similarly for the 2025 Heroes Prize.

The WTC cycle will end in June 2025 with the last at Ruler’s in London.

India have two times wrapped sprinters up in the Test title, losing the last to Australia last year.

Under Rohit, India likewise lost the ODI World Cup last to Australia at home in 2023.

He assumed control over the captaincy of the white-ball group in 2021 and turned into the all-design pioneer a year after the fact.