Champions Trophy 2025: The 9th edition of the ICC Champions Trophy i.e. Champions Trophy 2025 is going to start from February 19 and Team India's first match in this tournament is going to be against Bangladesh from February 20. Everyone is very excited for this tournament. Since it is going to be organized for the first time after the year 2017.

Rohit and Virat are also going to be seen playing in this tournament. However, before the start of the tournament, they have got a big shock. Since the board has suddenly dropped them from the team.

Rohit and Virat were dropped from the team

Actually, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have not been dropped from the squad of ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Rather, they have been dropped from the ICC ODI Team of the Year by the International Cricket Council i.e. ICC. Let us tell you that Rohit and Virat were among the top players of the ICC ODI Team of the Year last year. But this time they have not got a chance.

ICC announced the 2024 ODI Team of the Year

It is known that the ICC has announced the 2024 ODI Team of the Year and Charith Asalanka has been selected as the captain in it. At the same time, the top order batsmen include Sam Ayub, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Mendis. Apart from this, Sherfane Rutherford, Azmatullah Umarzai, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf and young spinner Allah Ghazanfar are also included in this team. It is known that the 2023 ICC ODI Team of the Year was completely different from this.

This is why Indian players were out
Actually, Team India played only 3 ODI matches in the year 2024 and in that too almost all the players were flops. Due to this, there is no Indian in the 2024 ODI Team of the Year. But in the year 2023, India did very well in the Asia Cup apart from the World Cup, due to which many Indian players were included in the team.

This was the 2023 ICC ODI Team of the Year

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Travis Head, Virat Kohli, Daryl Mitchell, Heinrich Klaasen (wicketkeeper), Marco Jensen, Adam Zampa, Mohammad Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammad Shami.

This is the 2024 ICC ODI Team of the Year

Sam Ayub, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (wicketkeeper), Charith Aslanka (captain), Sherfane Rutherford, Azmatullah Umarzai, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, AM Ghazanfar.