Team India is playing in Dubai under the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 matches under the hybrid model. Where India has played three matches so far in which the hat -trick of victory has been scored. At the same time, many players say that Team India is getting the benefit of playing on the same venue. Which has now received the reply of Indian captain Rohit Sharma. In fact, Rohit has rejected the notion that his team is benefiting from the Champions Trophy 2025 by playing all the matches in Dubai. He said that this is not his home ground and his team has got different challenges from the pitches.
Rohit said in a press conference before the semi -finals against Australia that every time the pitch gets a different challenge. Here we have played three matches and the nature of the pitch has been different in all three matches. This is not our home, it is Dubai. We have not played as many matches here. This is also new to us. He said that his team would have to mold the situation immediately before the semi -finals against Australia. He said that four or five pitches are being used here. I do not know which pitch will be in the semi -finals. But whatever, we have to mold ourselves and play on it.
Rohit gave the example of the last group match against New Zealand, saying that, we saw when the bowlers were bowling and she was taking a swing. This was not the case in the first two matches. In the last match, we saw that not getting that much spin. Hence there are different challenges on different pitch. We do not know how the pitch will be or how it is not. Rohit said that if the bowlers would have been helped by the pitch, they would have been matches and fun.
Rohit further said that if there was anything for the bowlers in it, it would have been more interesting. Sugal pitches are good because we want good matches. Rohit defended the decision to select five spinners in the team, saying that he was estimated by Dubai pitches as he was monitoring the ILT20. He said that in the last two months we saw that the pitches are slow. We were watching ILT20 which was played here and we felt that spinners would be helpful. If you want an additional batsman, then Rishabh Pant is therefore we chose an additional spinner.
