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Champions Trophy 2025: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has actually composed to the International Cricket Council (ICC) looking for factors behind India’s rejection to take a trip to Pakistan to play the ICC Champions Trophy next year, Geo News reported on Tuesday.
Due to tense political ties in between both countries, India has actually not taken a trip to Pakistan considering that 2008, when they played the Asia Cup there. India has actually securely held the position of not taking a trip to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy, mentioning ‘security issues’.
Previously this year, BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla mentioned that India would take a trip to Pakistan just if the Government of India allowed it. Just recently, ICC communicated to the PCB in composing that India will not take a trip to Pakistan to take part in the marquee occasion which will be kept in Pakistan in the early months of 2025.
The PCB talked to the Pakistan federal government on the problem and is wanting to provide a company position on the matter. “If India’s involvement adds to ICC’s income, the PCB’s function is similarly vital, and without Pakistan-India matches, the ICC incomes would suffer considerably,” sources informed Geo News.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has actually asked for the ICC to carry out the match of the Indian Cricket Team on a hybrid design with the last to most likely occur at Dubai International Stadium in the UAE.
Last week, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi shrugged away the possibility of hosting the competition in a hybrid design by declaring that there have actually been no conversations about hosting the competition in a hybrid format.
On Tuesday, sources reported that South Africa and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) became possible locations for hosting the Champions Trophy in 2025 if Pakistan took out at the last minute.
If the competition is moved, there are likewise opportunities that Pakistan might withdraw from the competition if ICC moves the competition to a neutral place, according to current reports.
India and Pakistan played their last bilateral series in 2012-13 in India, a white-ball series and now mainly play in ICC competitions and Asia Cups.
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