The ICC on Tuesday announced the schedule for the Champions Trophy 2025. The tournament, which will be held in a hybrid format, will start from February 19 and will continue till March 9. 15 matches will be played in 19 days. A reserve day has also been kept for the second semi-final and the final. The group match between India and Pakistan will be played in Dubai on February 23.
ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Schedule
The semi-finals and final will also be played in Dubai. While the remaining 10 matches of the tournament will be held in Pakistan. The ICC confirmed that the Champions Trophy will be held in a hybrid model. Pakistan is the defending champion of the tournament, having won the title in 2017 by defeating India in the final.
India will start their campaign against Bangladesh . India is in Group A. The team’s group includes Pakistan, Bangladesh and New Zealand. The other group includes Australia, England, South Africa and Afghanistan. The two semi-finals will be played on March 4 and 5, while the final will be played on March 9.
India-Pakistan teams will not play in each other’s country India and Pakistan teams will not play cricket in each other’s country. All India’s matches in the Champions Trophy 2025 will be played at neutral venues. The Pakistani team will not come to India for any tournament until 2027. Its matches will also be held at neutral venues.
The information about this decision of the ICC came to light on Thursday. This decision was taken in an earlier meeting. The 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup is to be held in India, while the T-20 World Cup is to be held in India and Sri Lanka in 2026.
Earlier, when the ICC told the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) about holding the Champions Trophy 2025 in a hybrid model, the PCB had requested the ICC not to send the team to India, which has now been accepted by the ICC.
All 15 members agreed to the hybrid model. A meeting of all the board members was held on December 5 in the presence of the new ICC president Jay Shah. Shah also reached the headquarters in Dubai this month. In the meeting, all 15 members of the board agreed to the hybrid model. Pakistan also did not oppose the decision in the meeting.
Why was the decision delayed? Initially, India refused to send its team to Pakistan for this tournament. At first, Pakistan was adamant that India must come to Pakistan, but after India’s strict stance, the Pakistan Cricket Board finally agreed to the hybrid model.
Ever since Pakistan got the chance to host the Champions Trophy, there has been speculation that the Indian team may refuse to go to Pakistan. India had earlier refused to go to Pakistan to play the Asia Cup in 2023. After that, India’s matches in the Asia Cup were held in Sri Lanka.
After this, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had first proposed to hold all Indian matches in Lahore and then send the players to India after the matches. When India did not accept this, the PCB also refused to go for the hybrid model.
Ministry of External Affairs said, Pakistan will not go to India under any circumstances. On Friday, the Ministry of External Affairs also made it clear that the Indian team will not go to Pakistan. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal confirmed this news. He said, BCCI has refused to go to Pakistan citing security reasons. Team India will not go to Pakistan to play the Champions Trophy under any circumstances. If ICC wants to play the tournament without India, then the team is also ready for that.
Pakistan team came to India for ODI World Cup Pakistan team came to India last year to play ODI World Cup. Then on October 14, a match was played between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad. Indian team won this match by 7 wickets. Captain Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer scored half-centuries. Jasprit Bumrah became the player of the match. He took 2 wickets for 19 runs.
Team India last toured Pakistan in 2008 : Team India last toured Pakistan in 2008. The Indian team won that 3-Test series 1-0. 2 matches of this series were drawn.
Pakistan visited India in 2013 to play a bilateral series: Pakistan last toured India in 2012-13. In that tour, a bilateral series of 3 ODIs and 2 T-20 matches was played. Pakistan won the ODI series 2-1, while the T-20 series was tied 1-1.
India not going to Pakistan after Mumbai terror attack The Indian team has not toured Pakistan since 2007-08. After the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, the Indian government had refused to play cricket in Pakistan. Since then, both teams have only played in ICC and ACC tournaments. Since 2013, both teams have played 13 ODIs and 8 T20 matches at neutral venues. During 2009, there was also a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in Pakistan.
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