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Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team has performed brilliantly and won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. In the final of the tournament held in Dubai, the Indian team defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets. With this, the Champions Trophy title has been captured for the third time.
Now the fans are eager to know what is the next mission of the Indian team after the Champions Trophy? Let us know that now the Indian team has got 3 months long leave. He does not have to play any international championship or series during this period.
Captain Rohit Sharma has returned to Mumbai after getting India a second ICC Trophy in 9 months. The players of the Indian team will get a week’s rest for the IPL starting on March 22 before joining their teams.
Due to the IPL lasting two months, the players have given priority to rest. The BCCI also does not plan to organize any kind of honor ceremony as it did on the team returning home after winning the T20 World Cup.
Players will land in IPL Mahakumbh
That is, there is no time to breathe for the players right now. He is now preparing for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season called Mahakumbh of T20 cricket. The IPL will begin on 22 March, while the final will be played on 25 May.
Like last time, 10 teams will participate in IPL in this season. A total of 74 matches will be played between these teams in 65 days, including the final. All these matches will be on 13 venue of India. In this way, the Indian team may be on 3 months leave, but the players will not get any rest at all.
Two -year challenging cycle will begin with England tour
It has been 8 months since Gautam Gambhir took the command of the national team after Rahul Dravid’s term ended with the T20 World Cup win in July. The victory of the Champions Trophy has come like a fresh wind gust and ‘Guru Gambhir’ will get a chance to analyze a big picture as a big change is expected in Indian cricket in the next two important years.
Gambhir will now reach in such times where there will be three different challenges in front of him, which will start with the Test tour of England. This will be as usual after the IPL in which there will be no time for preparation at all.
Gambhir’s second major challenge will be the T20 World Cup to be held in India and Sri Lanka in 2026 where Suryakumar Yadav’s team will come to save their title and the last but biggest challenge will be the 2027 ODI World Cup to be held in South Africa.
Indian team will visit England tour in June
If we talk about the Indian team, then they have to play their next series in June 2025 after 3 months. The Indian team is to go on a tour of England, where a 5 -match Test series will be played between the two teams. The first Test will be played in Leeds from 20 June.
India-England Test Series schedule (2025)
20-24 June, First Test, Headingley
2-6 July, Second Test, Birmingham
10-14 July, Third Test, Lords
23-27 July, Fourth Test, Manchester
31 July-4 August, Fifth Test, The Oval