The final day for confirming the Champions Trophy squad was Tuesday, and significant changes occurred in both the Australian and Indian teams. India lost their key pace bowler, Jasprit Bumrah, due to injury. The 2024 ICC Men’s Player of the Year will miss the tournament. Australia, already dealing with the absence of Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood, also saw Mitchell Starc withdraw last minute due to personal reasons, altering the team’s composition further. Afghanistan, too, made a last-minute change, losing spinner Allah Ghazanfar to injury and bringing in Nangyal Kharoti as his replacement.
The Champions Trophy will begin on February 19 in Karachi, with the opening match between Pakistan and New Zealand. The final of the eight-team tournament is scheduled for March 9. If India reaches the final, it will be held in Dubai; if not, it will be played in Lahore.
Here are the final squads for the Champions Trophy:
Group A
- Bangladesh: Nazmul Hossain (captain), Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Soumya Sarkar, Towhid Hridoy, Taskin Ahmed, Nahid Rana, Zakir Ali, Tanzid Hasan, Tanzim Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Rishad Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, Parvez Hossain.
- India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammad Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravindra Jadeja.
- Pakistan: Mohammad Rizwan (captain), Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Kamran Gulam, Saud Shakil, Tayyab Tahir, Fahim Ashraf, Khushdil Shah, Agha Salman, Usman Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi.
- New Zealand: Mitchell Santner (captain), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Will O’Rourke, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Ben Sears, Nathan Smith, Kane Williamson, Will Young.
Group B
- Australia: Steve Smith (captain), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey, Ben Dwarshius, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Aaron Hardy, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Matthew Short, Adam Zampa.
- England: Jos Buttler (captain), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethel, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Shakib Mehmood, Phil Salt, Mark Wood.
- South Africa: Temba Bavuma (captain), Tony de George, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Wiaan Mulder, Lungi Ngidi, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Rassie van der Dussen, Corbin Bosch.
- Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Ikram Alikhil, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Nangyal Kharoti, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Farid Malik, Navid Zadran.
