KL Rahul Champions Trophy 2025: ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is slowly getting closer. The tournament will start from 19th February. Team India will play its first match against Bangladesh on 20 February. Now the same questions are arising in the minds of the fans that who will be included in Team India for the ICC tournament? The report revealed that wicketkeeper batsman KL Rahul is certain to be selected in Team India in the tournament.
A report in Times of India said that KL Rahul has been made clear by the selectors that he will be selected in the team for the Champions Trophy. However, it was also mentioned in the report that KL Rahul will be rested in the white ball series against England before the Champions Trophy. Team India will play a series of 5 T20 and 3 ODI matches against England.
The report quoted a source as saying, “Rahul has been assured of his place in the Champions Trophy. Therefore, he will be rested from the England series.”
The thing to note is that Rahul has not been involved in the setup of the Indian team in T20 for a long time. He played the last T20 match for Team India in November 2022. In such a situation, he will be given rest only from the ODI series against England.
Played all five matches of Border-Gavaskar Trophy
Let us tell you that in the recent Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 played on Australia tour, KL Rahul played all 5 matches. Rahul was the fifth batsman to score the most runs in the series. He scored 276 runs in 10 innings of 5 matches at an average of 30.67. During this period, he scored 2 half-centuries, in which the high score was 84 runs.
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