Many great players have not been able to participate in the Champions Trophy 2025 due to injury. Before the match against the Kiwi team (Ind vs NZ), when a player of Team India did not participate in the practice session, speculations of injury started. But now a relief news has come out.
Ind Vs NZ: The Indian team has made it to the semi-finals in the Champions Trophy 2025 tournament. The team’s last group stage match is to be played with New Zealand on March 2. Which will reveal the number-1 and number-2 teams in the group. Before this match, questions were being raised about the availability of Team India’s ‘man in form’ player. But now it is clear that Team India’s dreaded player is fit before the match with New Zealand (Ind Vs NZ).
The only player who did not practice
The Indian team has to play the last league match (Ind Vs NZ) with New Zealand on Sunday. Even before this match, Team India has entered the semi-finals. But the result of the match will decide which team will play with whom in the semi-finals. Team India would like to enter the semi-finals by becoming the table topper. For which it is necessary to win the match against New Zealand. For which the players are practicing hard. But in Team India’s practice session on Thursday, opener Shubman Gill did not come to practice. Shubman Gill was the only player to skip the practice session.
Update on player’s fitness
From Team India, only Shubman Gill had skipped practice in the session. Seeing this, questions started being raised about Shubman Gill’s availability in the upcoming match (Ind Vs NZ). However, putting an end to the speculation, the BCCI management clarified that Shubman was fine and had taken a day off for rest. That’s why he did not come for practice. According to the information, now Team India’s vice-captain Shubman Gill is completely fine and has also reached practice at the ICC Academy.
Can captain against New Zealand
In the match against New Zealand (Ind Vs NZ), Shubman Gill is once again expected to play a brilliant innings. Shubman Gill had scored more than 300 runs in the ODI series against England. Then he scored a century against Bangladesh in the very first match of the Champions Trophy. Against Pakistan too, Shubman Gill played an innings of 46 runs with the help of 7 fours.
After which he can be seen captaining the match against New Zealand. There is news of captain Rohit Sharma’s hamstring injury. After which it is being told that the team management has advised Rohit to rest given the semi-finals. Due to this, he has been dropped from the playing 11 against New Zealand. Gill can be seen captaining in place of Rohit.