Team India won both its opening matches in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2025. With this wins, the Indian team has entered the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Now Rohit Sharma’s army will play its last match in the group stage against New Zealand on March 2nd. Team India has suffered a double blow before this big match.
Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma may miss the match against New Zealand
Team India won both its opening matches in the Champions Trophy. With this win, the Indian team has entered the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy 2025. Now Rohit’s army will play its last match in the league stage against New Zealand on March 2.
Team India has suffered a double blow before this big match. Both captain Rohit Sharma and vice-captain Shubman Gill were not seen in the practice session in Dubai. After this, there is doubt over their achievement regarding the match against New Zealand.
Will Gill and Rohit not play in IND Vs NZ match?
After the victory in the Champions Trophy match against Pakistan, captain Rohit Sharma was not seen during the training session. However, he was present on the sidelines and was closely monitoring his teammates batting at the ICC Academy.
Seeing him standing on the sidelines, it seemed that he had not yet recovered from his hamstring injury. In such a situation, due to the semi-final match being close, the team management would like to rest Rohit in the match against New Zealand.
Rohit Sharma was present in the nets session and interacted with coach Gautam Gambhir and the rest of the coaching staff. Virat Kohli faced all kinds of balls in the nets. Virat not only faced spinners like Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja, but also practiced against fast bowlers.
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Shubman Gill’s illness increased India’s worries
Not only Rohit Sharma, but Shubman Gill’s absence in training has increased the tension of Team India. In-form opener Gill, who scored a brilliant century against Bangladesh in India’s opening match. Now before the match against New Zealand, there are reports that he is not well. If he does not recover before the third match then KL Rahul can open the innings for Indian team.