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Indian team head coach Gautam Gambhir at Mumbai Airport on Saturday.
The Indian team’s first batch for the ICC Champions Trophy left for Dubai on Saturday. ANI has shared a video, in which some players including the team’s head coaches Gautam Gambhir, captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are seen at Mumbai Airport. The tournament to be held in the hybrid model will start from 19 February and run till March 9. India will play its match in Dubai. At the same time, the remaining matches will be played in Pakistan. Eight countries will participate in it.
Final will be played on 9 March The tournament to be held in the hybrid model will start from 19 February and run till March 9. 15 matches will be played in 19 days. Reserve Day is also kept for the second semi -finals and finals. The group match between India and Pakistan will be held in Dubai on 23 February.
India will play all its matches in Dubai, the team’s group also has Bangladesh and New Zealand. A semi -finals will also be played in Dubai itself. If India reaches the final, then this match will also be in Dubai. While the remaining 10 matches of the tournament will be held in Pakistan. The Champions Trophy is going to take place after 8 years, in 2017, Pakistan won the title by defeating India for the last time.
India will start a campaign against Bangladesh India is in Group-A. The team’s group consists of Pakistan, Bangladesh and New Zealand. The second group consists of Australia, England, South Africa and Afghanistan. There will be 2 semi -finals on 4 and 5 March, while the finals will be played on 9 March.
Team India for Champions Trophy Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarti And Kuldeep Yadav.
reserve: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohammad Siraj and Shivam Dubey.
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