KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant included in Sunil Gavaskar and Irfan Pathan’s CT 2025 squad

KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant (Source: Matt Roberts-ICC/ICC via Getty Images and Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)

India’s Champions Trophy 2025 squad is yet to be announced and there is still a considerable amount of debate surrounding which players should make it to the final 15. It appears that the team will be led by Rohit Sharma. If he does, it will be the fifth time he would be leading India in an ICC event.

Before the announcement, experts are weighing in on who should be making it to the squad following the recent performances. Former India cricketers Irfan Pathan and Sunil Gavaskar also shared their views and picked the players who they think could make it to the Indian team. While there is a possibility that it will be either KL Rahul or Rishabh Pant who will make it to the squad both the former cricketers have gone on to pick both the wicketkeeper-batters.

“If I am sitting there I will say who has done really well in the recent past. KL Rahul had a fantastic 50-over World Cup. Shreyas Iyer – the kind of ODI World Cup he had, I think he needed some backing. In the last few months, he has not got that backing. I will definitely back these two guys to be there in the Champions Trophy,” Pathan told Star Sports.

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Gavaskar while discussing the squad chose to get Sanju Samson into the mix of things seeing his performances in the last few series especially his hundreds in South Africa.

“No. 4 for me will be Shreyas Iyer. No. 5 will be KL Rahul and No. 6 will be Rishabh Pant. Sanju Samson, with the hundreds he has scored, has to be in the squad because he has scored hundreds for India. How can you ignore somebody who is scoring hundreds for his country?” said the former legend.

Irfan and Gavaskar’s predicted Champions Trophy India squad –

Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Shubman Gill, Sanju Samson, Mohammed Siraj and Nitish Kumar Reddy.