Two days before to start the Rohit Sharma-led India’s Champions Trophy 2025 campaign. The matches will start on Thursday against Bangladesh in Dubai. Champions Trophy give the another chance to India team to restore themselves after loss from Australia. Before matches starts, the rift occurs in India team. Star player blame Gautam Gambhir for omission from Playing XI.
Star Player unhappy with Gautam Gambhir
After the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, in which India Lost 3-1, the reports claim that all players was not well in dressing room. The reports also claim that coach Gautam Gambhir was unhappy with younger players for leaking dressing room details. As per reports, team bonding was missing.
BCCI pose some guidelines on players, like making in compulsory to go in team bus, no partners /wives on short Tours, no personal photoshoot on Tours. Amid this, there are some reports claim that the star player is unhappy with Gautam Gambhir for dropping him from the Champions Trophy XI.
Rift in India Dressing Room
As per reports, the ‘current India wicketkeeper’ has no first choice in Playing XI. He feels that he lost his spot because of external reasons. It also does not mention whether the wicketkeeper is part of Playing XI or not.
Currently, KL Rahul is the first-choice wicketkeeper of the India team in the Champions Trophy. Coach Gautam Gambhir confirmed this report. Rishabh Pant is another wicketkeeper in the squad. Rishabh Pant, who struck on knee by a shot from Hardik Pandya during Sunday’s training, appeared to be struggling on Monday.
He decide to skipped the wicketkeeping and practice fielding. When he came to bat, he missed and edge some deliveries. The session kicked off with a direct-hit competition between the teams.
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