Bhubaneswar, Feb. 16 -- India will play all their matches of the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in Dubai. In a surprising move, BCCI has selected as many as five spinners in the team. Several fans and experts have a put a question mark over this move.

As per the statistics also, India got their strategy wrong with pacers having more influence in the recently-ended 2024/25 season, picking 68 per cent (116/1170) of the wickets across 15 matches at the Dubai International Stadium, where the Men in Blue will play all their Champions Trophy games.

Since hosting its first ODI match in 2009, Dubai International Stadium has witnessed 25 games, pacers have ruled the roost by taking 57 per cent of the wickets (183/321), though the spinners ha...