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ICC Champions Trophy: Full schedule of warm-up matches, beginning May 26

Team India, who do not have an official ODI tournament ahead of the ICC mega event starting June 1, do have a couple of warm up games scheduled.

ICC Champions Trophy: Full schedule of warm-up matches, beginning May 26

New Delhi: As BCCI announced their 15-man squad for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy in England, as many as eight players - Virat Kohli, who will captain India for the first time in a major ICC event, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rohit Sharma and Umesh Yadav – from the successful team of 2013.

Team India, who do not have an official ODI tournament ahead of the ICC mega event starting June 1, do have a couple of warm up games scheduled.

Here's the full warm-up schedule before the ICC Champions Trophy:-

Date IST Details Venue
26/05/17 15:00:00 Australia v Sri Lanka Kennington Oval, London
27/05/17 15:00:00 Bangladesh v Pakistan Edgbaston, Birmingham
28/05/17 15:00:00 India v New Zealand Kennington Oval, London
29/05/17 15:00:00 Australia v Pakistan Edgbaston, Birmingham
30/05/17 15:00:00 New Zealand v Sri Lanka Edgbaston, Birmingham
30/05/17 15:00:00 India v Bangladesh Kennington Oval, London

While a number of players will be returning to this short and sharp tournament, Pakistan's Shoaib Malik stands out as he has been selected for his sixth successive tournament.

Only eight other players have played in six ICC Champions Trophy tournaments. They are Ricky Ponting (Australia), Rahul Dravid (India), Daniel Vettori (New Zealand), Mark Boucher and Jacques Kallis (both South Africa) and Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Jayawardena and Kumar Sangakkara (all Sri Lanka).

All the teams can make changes to their squads without needing an ICC approval until May 24. All player replacement requests from May 25 onwards will require the approval of the Event Technical Committee.

India's Champions Trophy squad:

Virat Kohli(c), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Yuvraj Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami

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