Will Team India go to Pakistan for Champions Trophy?
ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Champions Trophy 2025 will be hosted by Pakistan. Where the tournament will be played between 8 countries. The Champions Trophy was last organized in England in the year 2017. Then Pakistan cricket team won the title by defeating India. Pakistan last hosted an ICC tournament in 1996. At that time Pakistan had hosted the ODI World Cup along with India and Sri Lanka. But whether the Indian team will tour Pakistan for this tournament is not clear yet.
Will Team India go to Pakistan for Champions Trophy?
New Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohsin Naqvi is expecting an assurance from BCCI secretary Jay Shah on India’s participation in next year’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan during the ICC meeting to be held in Dubai next week. But this is not a possibility at present. The International Cricket Council (ICC) Executive Board meeting will be held in Dubai next week. Naqvi plans to talk to top officials of the global body along with Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Shah. But the Indian Board will not immediately commit to tour Pakistan for the tournament to be held in February-March in 2025, because it is about a year away.
Only the Government of India will take the final decision
The Champions Trophy is an ICC tournament and BCCI will not completely close its doors due to all the other cricket playing nations going to Pakistan. But the green signal from the Government of India will be available at least a few weeks before the start of the tournament. Citing the hybrid model used last year, a PCB source told PTI that the biggest concern for the PCB is whether India will send its team to Pakistan and there will be no repeat of the issues of last year’s Asia Cup.
When a BCCI source was asked, he said that only the Government of India can take the decision on playing in Pakistan and BCCI will have to follow the orders of the government. Also, it would be too early to seek permission from the government. And if their new president is expecting any kind of assurance in March 2024 for the tournament to be held in February-March 2025, then he is mistaken.
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