Finally, the Pakistan Cricket Board has announced a 15 -member team for the Champions Trophy 2025 on Friday. This time the Champions Trophy will be organized under the Hybrid model, which will be played in Pakistan and some matches will be played in UAE. In this tournament, the Pakistan team will be commanded by Mohammad Rizwan while the team will be handled by Salman Ali Aga.
At the same time, the team which Pakistan has selected for this tournament includes 4 fast bowlers including Haris Rauf, Shaheen Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain and Naseem Shah. In this tournament, Pakistan’s spin attack will be led by Abrar Ahmed. This team includes only Abrar Ahmed as a pure spinner, which is shocking. The team will play triangular ODI series with New Zealand and South Africa in Lahore and Karachi before the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
In the team that Pakistan has selected for this tournament, 2 big mistakes have been made by PCB. Fakhar Zaman has been selected as an opener in this team. But in this team, there is no other pure batsman as an opener, that is, another batsman may have to play this role with Fakhar Zaman. Not only this, there is no backup opener in this team, that is, if Fakhar Zaman is injured then there can be a lot of trouble for the team.
Also, Pakistan has chosen Abrar Ahmed as a spinner in this team while there is no other pure spinner in the team. That is, this team will take the field with only one spinner and Salman is present in the Aga team as an alternative to support them. Now if this team needs two pure spinners for a match, then there may be another problem in front of Pakistan.
Pakistan team for Champions Trophy 2025
Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Tayyab Tahir, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Rizwan (captain and wicketkeeper), Khushdil Shah, Salman Aga, Osman Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah .