When Team India played the Champions Trophy for the first time, this was the playing 11, 4 of them have become anonymous today

Champions Trophy: The edition of Champions Trophy 2025 will begin from February 19 with a match between Pakistan and New Zealand (PAK VS NZ) at the Karachi ground. Team India will start its journey in the Champions Trophy 2025 by playing its first group stage match against Bangladesh from February 20.

For your information, let us tell you that the Champions Trophy is going to start from the year 1998. The first edition of this mega event, which started in the year 1998, was won by South Africa, but if you look at the playing 11 of India at that time, then along with some legendary players, there are also some players who are currently living a life of anonymity.

The team played its match against Australia in the 1998 Champions Trophy

The 1998 Champions Trophy was organized in Bangladesh. Team India played its first match against Australia at the Banglabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In this match against Australia, Team India batted first and scored 307 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs. In response, the Australian team was all out for 263 runs after batting for 48.1 overs and in this way Team India won the first match played in the Champions Trophy by 44 runs.

At that time, many legendary players were included in the playing 11 of Team India

The playing 11 of Team India's first match in Champions Trophy 1998 included legendary Indian players like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Mohammad Azharuddin, Rahul Dravid, Ajit Agarkar, Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath. Many of these legendary players are still working with Indian cricket or ICC.

These 4 players included in the playing 11 are living a life of anonymity

The playing 11 of Team India's first match against Australia in Champions Trophy 1998 also included some players who do not have any special connection with Indian cricket at present. Talking about these 4 players, the names of Sunil Joshi, Robin Singh, Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia are included in that list. At present, these four former Indian players are living their lives away from Indian cricket.