Team India's pace bowling spearhead Jasprit Bumrah is not part of the side's playing XI for their 2025 Champions Trophy opener against Bangladesh in Dubai on Thursday, February 20.

The Indian bowler, despite being named in the original squad, failed to make the cut due to a lower back injury. Harshit Rana has been named as the replacment for Bumrah.

Jasprit Bumrah had been dealing with the injury since the fifth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Sydney, Australia last month.

India's pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah is not a part of the 2025 Champions Trophy after he was ruled out due to an injury and failed to recover in time.

Further, the BCCI replaced Yashasvi Jaiswal with Varun Chakravarthy in the Champions Trophy squad. The board has also named three non-traveling substitutes: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohammed Siraj and Shivam Dube.

BCCI VP Rajeev Shukla remains optimistic about India's chances in the ICC Champions Trophy despite star pacer Jasprit Bumrah being sidelined due to injury. The tournament kicks off with India facing Bangladesh,

Rana has performed adequately in the opportunities he has received leading up to the ICC event; however, Ponting believes that left-arm pacer Arshdeep is more appropriately suited to bowl during all stages of the 50-over format.

India will head into the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 as one of the title favourites on the back of the home series win over England recently.

India's pace ace Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the ICC Men's Champions Trophy 2025 due to a lower back injury he sustained during the

India begin their bid to win the ICC Champions Trophy on Thursday but will do so without their No.1 pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah. The 31-year-old, , who was the highest wicket-taker in the recent test series with Australia,

Harshit Rana who is featuring for his maiden ICC tournament picked up three wickets in India's Champions Trophy opener clash against Bangladesh.