The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has confirmed that the star pacer Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the Champions Trophy 2025 with Harshit Rana has been named as a replacement.
Bumrah has not fully recovered from the back injury he picked during the final test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy against Australia.
While his latest scans did not reveal anything abnormal, it is learnt that he is not entirely ready to return for bowling. His progress will continue to be monitored by BCCI’s medical team.
With there is no timeline on his return, he will likely resume his bowling in a couple of weeks.
This will be the second ICC tournament Jasprit Bumrah will be missing due to injury, after missing the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia due to back injury which made him to have a surgery.
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Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy due to a lower back injury. Harshit Rana named replacement.
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On the other hand, BCCI has added Varun Chakravarthy to the squad 50-over tournament while Yashasvi Jaiswal has been dropped from the main squad and has been considered as non-travelling substitutes along with Siraj and Shivam Dube.
“Team India have also named Varun Chakaravarthy in the squad. The spinner will replace Yashasvi Jaiswal who was initially named in the provisional squad,” the Indian Board confirmed.
India Squad for Champions Trophy 2025: Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill (Vc), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohd. Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Non-Travelling Substitues: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohammed Siraj and Shivam Dube. The three players will travel to Dubai as and when required.
