Champions Trophy 2025 : The ICC Champions Trophy is proposed to be held in Pakistan from 19 February to 9 March subsequent yr. Since Pakistan has bought the internet hosting rights of this event, the largest difficulty is whether or not the Indian crew will tour Pakistan subsequent yr for the Champions Trophy or not… Nonetheless, there’s a excessive chance that the Indian crew is not going to journey to Pakistan attributable to poor diplomatic and political relations. Nonetheless, the ultimate determination on this must be taken by the Indian authorities.
If India doesn’t journey to Pakistan, the event will be organized below a hybrid mannequin. Nonetheless, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) desires to prepare the whole event in its personal nation. Based on Pakistani media reviews, the PCB is not going to again down from its stand of organizing the Champions Trophy in Pakistan and the board will keep this stance through the ICC assembly to be held in Sri Lanka this week.
… then PAK will boycott T20 WC!
The ICC Board assembly is scheduled to be held from 19 to 22 July. PCB President Mohsin Naqvi could take part on this assembly to be held in Colombo. The report additionally mentioned that if India doesn’t journey to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy, it’s going to boycott the T20 World Cup to be held in 2026. The T20 World Cup 2026 is to be performed below the joint internet hosting of India and Sri Lanka.
India had additionally refused to go to Pakistan for the Asia Cup final yr. After this, the PCB was compelled to prepare the Asia Cup below the ‘hybrid mannequin’. Now Pakistan fears that just like the Asia Cup 2023, this event may should be organized below the ‘hybrid mannequin’. If the Indian crew doesn’t tour Pakistan, then India’s matches within the Champions Trophy could also be shifted to UAE or Sri Lanka.
Within the ICC board conferences, each member can elevate its difficulty on which voting takes place. But when the federal government of the member nation says that they can’t play there, then the ICC has to seek out alternate options. Final yr, through the Asia Cup, BCCI President Roger Binny and Vice President Rajiv Shukla went to Pakistan.
PCB has ready the schedule and despatched it to ICC
PCB has ready the schedule of Champions Trophy and despatched it to ICC and its member nations for approval. It is going to be launched after getting inexperienced sign from in every single place. However even earlier than that this schedule went viral. Based on this, Champions Trophy 2025 will begin on 19 February in Karachi. The opening match can be performed between Pakistan and New Zealand. Additionally, in response to the schedule, India and Pakistan have been positioned in the identical group. India and Pakistan will match on 1 March in Lahore. All of the matches of India have been stored in Lahore.
Regardless of all this, there was no official affirmation from the BCCI about India’s go to. A supply mentioned that there’s little or no chance that Crew India will go to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy, however the remaining name on this matter can be taken by the federal government. The Indian crew final visited Pakistan in 2008. Then Crew India performed the Asia Cup on Pakistan tour below the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Then Crew India reached the ultimate, the place it misplaced to Sri Lanka by 100 runs.
