New Delhi:
India Team announced: A 15-member Indian team has been announced for the Champions Trophy 2025 to be held in February-March next month, while the team has also been announced for three ODI matches against England. Same teams have been kept for the series and Champions Trophy. The only difference is that if Jasprit Bumrah is not fit for the series against England, then Harshit Rana will play in his place in the ODI series against England. But we are talking about those four players, whose non-selection has the fans discussing and also expressing surprise.
1. Karun Nair
The most unlucky player is captain Karun Nair, playing for Vidarbha, who created a storm with the bat in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. On the eve of the selection, Sachin Tendulkar has indirectly recommended Nair on X. Emotional fans are talking, “Has Karun Nair made any mistake by creating history as Vijay Hazare?”, “Has Nair made any big mistake by remaining not out 6 times in 9 matches and making the record of the same number of runs at an average of 752? Is it?”, “What kind of message is this giving to the youth?”, etc.
2. What is Varun Chakraborty’s mistake?
As much as fans are talking about Karun Nair, even former veterans are talking equally about mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty. Then forget about the fans. The reason for this is the amazing improvement in Chakraborty’s bowling in recent times, his fitness and above all his performance against Vijay Hazare. In the domestic ODI team, Varun Chakraborty is the second most successful bowler of the tournament after lefty Arshdeep. Chakraborty took 18 wickets in 50.1 overs bowled in 6 matches, while Arshdeep took 20 wickets. Not only this, Varun did the feat of taking 5 wickets twice in the match. Despite this, his non-selection remains a topic of discussion among fans and veterans.
3. Nitish Reddy not even worthy of reserve?
Fans are saying, “How can such an amazing player be kept out of the team?”, recently if any player showed his strength in the Australia Test series and stole the hearts of the fans the most, then it was Nitish Reddy. In T20 Everyone has seen his batting for IPL and definitely he could have proved very useful in the Champions Trophy, but the thinking of the selectors was such that they made Harshit Rana a reserve player. Reddy was not even considered worthy of this. In such a situation, fans are also talking about Nitish.
4. Why so strict with Sanju Samson?
Recently, Sanju Samson surprised everyone by scoring two centuries in four innings in the T20 series played in South Africa tour. Everyone was left in awe after seeing the manner in which he scored his century. Sanju Samson was in the news recently because when he did not reach the team camp for the domestic Vijay Hazare Trophy, he was dropped from the team. Fans are talking, “If Sanju has been shown the way out just for this reason, then this strictness is not right at all.” Even Gavaskar had said this along with Pathan on Star-Sports while giving Sanju a place in his team. , “How can a batsman who has scored two centuries in four T20 matches be kept out?”