Team India recently toured Sri Lanka, where India won the T20 series by 3-0, while Rohit’s army had to face a shameful defeat of 2-0 in the ODI series. India now has to play Test and T20 series with Bangladesh, after that India will also face New Zealand, Africa and England, and right after this Team India will participate in the Champions Trophy 2025, which is to be played in February 2025. In this article, we will take a look at the three Indian Players who might consider retirement after ICC Champions Trophy.
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1) Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli made his debut for Team India in the year 2008 and since then he has been India’s run machine. This year, after winning the T20 World Cup, he announced his retirement from the shorter format forever. Now, he can also announce his retirement from the ODI format as well.
Kohli has already achieved everything in the ODI format. In 295 ODI matches, 13906 runs have come from the King’s bat. During this time, he has also scored 50 centuries for Team India. For Kohli, who is close to 36 years of age, it seems very difficult to play after the Champions Trophy.
2) Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma’s current age is 37 years, so it would be right to call the Champions Trophy his last tournament, the Hitman himself has said that this is his last time playing cricket. With increasing age, Rohit Sharma’s fitness has not been very good, due to which now he does not even look to play many balls in ODI cricket and thinks about playing only 30-40 balls. This explosive batsman has scored 10866 runs in 265 ODIs for India at an average of 49.16 and a strike rate of 92.43.
3) Mohammad Shami
Mohammad Shami has been out of Team India due to injury since the World Cup 2023. However, he is sure to play the Champions Trophy 2025 for India, as he has now recovered from his injury and will soon be seen playing in the Indian jersey once again.
Yes, but it would also be true to say that Shami will announce his retirement after the Champions Trophy 2025, because with increasing age his fitness has also not been very good. He has played 101 ODIs for Team India so far, in which he has taken a total of 195 wickets.