🏏Champions Trophy 2025: Pakistan vs India, 5th Match, Group A🏏 - Page 8

Rohit: Doesn't really matter, they won the toss so we'll bowl first. Looks similar to the last game, the surface is on the slower side. We have an experienced unit in batting so we know what we need to do if the pitches get slower. Need an overall performance from the team - with bat and ball. The last game wasn't an easy one for us, which is always nice. You want to be under pressure and test yourself. We are playing the same team.

Animesh Pai: "I would think Chakravarthy needs to be in today's side. Either in place of Kuldeep or Harshit Rana, depending on the pitch. While i would like to get Pant instead of KL Rahul to have one more left hand batter to counter Kushdil's left arm orthodox and Abrar's mystery."

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav

Pakistan (Playing XI): Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan(w/c), Salman Agha, Tayyab Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed

Rohit: Doesn't really matter, they won the toss so we'll bowl first. Looks similar to the last game, the surface is on the slower side. We have an experienced unit in batting so we know what we need to do if the pitches get slower. Need an overall performance from the team - with bat and ball. The last game wasn't an easy one for us, which is always nice. You want to be under pressure and test yourself. We are playing the same team.

Pakistan have won the toss and have opted to bat

Rizwan: Will bat first, looks like a good surface. Want to put up a good target. Every match is important in ICC events, we will keep things normal. The boys are familiar with these conditions, we have done well here and we want to do our best today. We lost our last game, but it is past for us now. One change - Fakhar is out, Imam is in.

Pakistan have won the toss and have opted to bat

Teams:

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav

Pakistan (Playing XI): Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan(w/c), Salman Agha, Tayyab Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav

Pakistan (Playing XI): Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan(w/c), Salman Agha, Tayyab Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed

Rohit bhai toss kab jeetega re Tu?

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It’s the big one. It’s the one that everyone keeps an eye out for. The one everyone takes a big red sketch pen out for and circles the date when the fixtures for any tournament are announced. The biggest rivalry game in the world of cricket, perhaps across the world of sport, and one that two entire countries will tune in for without fail. It’s the match we were waiting for, and a match that needs no introduction: India vs Pakistan, on the world stage, in the biggest grudge match on the calendar.

The two teams enter this contest with highly differing fortunes in their respective opening matches of the ICC Champions Trophy. Pakistan began the campaign with their third match against New Zealand in just over the space of a week, and lost their third match against New Zealand in just over the space of a week. It was a tame and uninspired 60-run loss, with the bowling seeming toothless and the batting never clicking into gear to chase down the target.

Conversely, India had an incredible start against Bangladesh before letting the Tigers back into the game in Dubai. Nevertheless, a solid riskless chase bookmarked by a Shubman Gill century will give them confidence as well as the momentum heading into this match.