WATCH: Team India departs for Dubai ahead of ICC Champions Trophy 2025

In a recent piece of news, Rohit Sharma-led Team India has left for Dubai from India ahead of the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The Men in Blue will start their journey in the coveted international tournament with their campaign opener against Bangladesh on February 20 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai.

Rohit and Co. departed to Dubai from Mumbai on Saturday; after landing in Dubai, the team will start their preparations for the prestigious cricket quadrennial. Rohit Sharma’s men will be eyeing ending their 12-year-long wait for the title in the Champions Trophy since they won it last in 2013 under the captaincy of former legendary skipper MS Dhoni.

The video of Team India leaving for Dubai from the airport in Mumbai, where skipper Rohit Sharma gave autographs to the Indian cricket fans, also made rounds on social media as soon as it was shared by a user on X (formerly Twitter).

Here’s the video:

Rohit sharma and his men left for Dubai for champions trophy 🏆...

All the best ,Team India🇮🇳🔥🔥pic.twitter.com/XOUDNrpE5f

— kinetic_45 (@kinetic_karthi) February 15, 2025

Notably, India are coming off a comprehensive 3-0 whitewash win against England in the three-match ODI series. Before that, India’s T20I team under Suryakumar Yadav’s captaincy, outplayed Jos Buttler’s men by a 4-1 margin in the five-match T20I series.

Rohit Sharma’s men are placed in tournament’s Group A with arch-rivals Pakistan, alongside Bangladesh and New Zealand as the two other teams. They will take on the arch-rivals Pakistan in the high-octane clash on February 23, at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai.

India also faced a major setback just a week before the start of the tournament as their star pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was ruled out of the entire tournament due to an injury. The management replaced Bumrah with the young KKR pacer Harshit Rana.

Here’s a look at India’s squad for the Champions Trophy 2025:

Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohd. Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, and Varun Chakaravarthy.