ICC Champions Trophy 2025 India Squad Announcement Highlights: India and Pakistan are the only two left teams to announce their squads for the upcoming Champions Trophy, and the BCCI has not announced the squads on Thursday either.

India squads for England ODI series and Champions Trophy LIVE Updates: The BCCI has reportedly added Sitanshu Kotak as batting coach for the upcoming T20 and ODI series at home against England. Sitanshu Kotak will be joining Team India camp in Kolkata on 18 January before the England series that starts in Kolkata on 22 January.

Kotak has been head coach of several India A tours, and served as assistant coach to Laxman during the Ireland T20Is, and has been a batting coach at the NCA since 2019

The Indian team’s abysmal batting performances in the past few months that led to a historic 3-0 whitewash against New Zealand at home before surrendering the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in a decade,

India has been under fire following consecutive series defeats: a 0-3 loss to New Zealand at home and a 1-3 drubbing in Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia. Both losses highlighted glaring issues with India's batting lineup.

Kotak flew to Australia with the India A side in November 2024 and is currently the head coach of the India A team.

BCCI has asked Sitanshu Kotak to join India squad as their batting coach. Sitanshu will join the India squad from the T20I series against England

The India batters have experienced a tough time with the bat in the last few series which were played both at home and away as well. This has led to the coaching staff getting a lot of backlash after the performances in red-ball cricket in Australia and a whitewash against New Zealand in particular.