With the Champions Trophy 2025 around the corner after a dismal performance in the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, which they lost 1-3 to Australia, India are likely to tread carefully with their white-ball teams.

Leader Jasprit Bumrah’s fitness will be closely monitored in the build-up to the Champions Trophy which begins on February 19. Bumrah did not take the field on the third day of the fifth Test in Sydney after suffering back spasms. Bumrah is likely to play only one ODI against England in Ahmedabad on February 12 before leaving for the Champions Trophy.

Many questions have been raised about the future of captains Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli following their red-ball performances in Australia. Kohli managed to score 190 runs in nine innings in the series, while captain Rohit was dropped from the playing XI for the Sydney Test after scoring just 31 runs in five innings.

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However, a report by Revsportz suggests that this will not affect their chances of playing in the ODI Champions Trophy format.

However, the silver lining of the series was the emergence of all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy, who scored an impressive 114 amid a batting collapse in the fourth Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground while amassing 298 runs in nine innings in the series.