IND Vs NZ ICC Champions Trophy: Will India rest Rohit Sharma for New Zealand match?

IND Vs NZ ICC Champions Trophy: ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Team India won both its opening matches in the Champions Trophy. With this victory, the Indian team has entered the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy. Now Rohit's army will play its last match in the league stage against New Zealand on March 2. Team India has suffered a double blow before this big match.

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Team India won both its opening matches in the Champions Trophy. With this victory, the Indian team has entered the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy 2025.

Now Rohit's army will play its last match in the league stage against New Zealand on March 2.

Team India has suffered a double blow before this big match. Both captain Rohit Sharma and vice-captain Shubman Gill were not seen in the practice session in Dubai. After this, there is doubt over their achievement regarding the match against New Zealand.

Will Gill and Rohit not play in IND Vs NZ match?

After the victory in the Champions Trophy match against Pakistan, captain Rohit Sharma was not seen during the training session. However, he was present on the sidelines and was closely monitoring his teammates batting at the ICC Academy.

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Seeing him standing on the sidelines, it seemed that he had not yet recovered from his hamstring injury. In such a situation, due to the semi-final match being close, the team management would like to rest Rohit in the match against New Zealand.

Rohit closely observed the performance of the players with the coach in the net's session

Rohit Sharma was present in the net's session, and he interacted with coach Gautam Gambhir and the rest of the coaching staff. Virat Kohli faced every kind of ball in the nets. Virat not only faced bowlers like Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja, but also practiced against net bowlers for more than half an hour.

Shubman Gill's illness increased India's worries

Team India's tension has increased due to the absence of not only Rohit, but also Shubman Gill in training. In-form opener Gill, who scored a brilliant century against Bangladesh in India's opening match, is now reported to be unwell ahead of the match against New Zealand.

However, it is not known what has happened to him. If he does not recover before the third match, KL Rahul may open the innings.