The World Championship of Legends (WCL) has a cricket world after the official announcement of the 16-member squad of India Champions for the second season of the World Championships. Set to electrify England from July 18 to August 2, 2025, the tournament will once again look at the defending champions, which won the inaugural WCL title in 2024, headed by Karismani and reputed all-rounder headed Yuvraj SinghThis strategic retention of leadership, combined with a roster briming with famous names, indicates a powerful mixture of indifferent appeal and prepares to protect its iconic crown on India’s champions foreign soil.
Mixing of experience in Indian squad
Yuvraj, whose amazing leadership and match -winning performances played an important role in India’s winning campaign last year, will once again take away a squad, which reads like one of the modern Indian cricket legends. An important attraction of this year’s roster is the incorporated by former Vipul opener Shikhar Dhawan, who is set to make his much awaited WCL debut after his retirement from international cricket in 2024. Dhawan’s aggressive batting style and huge experience at the highest level are expected to add a new dimension to the top order of the team.
The squad is carried forward with the presence of many fan favorite, whose names provoke countless memorable moments on the international stage. These include dynamic left-handing Suresh RainaVersatile all-rounders Irfan Pathan and Yusuf Pathan, Willy off-Spinner Harbhajan Singh, and explosive wicketkeeper-son Robin Uthappa. This formidable attire ensures a wide mixture of batting depth, which is a rich variety of many all-round options and spin bowling capable of changing the game with both bat and ball that can exploit English conditions.
WCL 2025: Schedule and Tournament Structure
India Champions will begin to protect their title with a highly anticipated blockbuster conflict against their staunch rivals, Pakistan Champions. This opening stability is a duplication of a mouth of the previous year’s dramatic finals, promising immediate revaluation of one of the most intensive rivals of cricket. After this high-octane opener, India will navigate a challenging league platform, South Africa on 22 July, Australia on 26 July, England on July 27 and West Indies on 29 July. The top four teams emerging from this harsh round-robin phase will determine for August 2 with the Crown Final on 31 July.
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In the format of the WCL 2025 tournament, six malignant teams-India, Pakistan, Australia, England, South Africa and West Indies-all compete in a broad round-robin league. This ensures that every team plays against each other once before the knockout stages. The matches will be distributed in four prestigious English cricket venue, are immersed in each history and provides unique sports status: Edgbaston in Birmingham, County Ground in Northampton, Grace Road in Leester and headingley in Leeds.
India Champion Squad for WCL 2025
Yuvraj Singh (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Robin Uthappa, Ambati Raiudu, Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, Stuart Binny, Gorakerat Mann, Vinay Kumar, Varun Aran
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