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The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is going through an unsure future. The BCCI, after not receiving clearance from the Indian authorities, has knowledgeable the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) that it’ll not journey to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy in 2025. The Pakistan Cricket Board, the designated host, is adamant that there shall be no hybrid mannequin the place India play its matches at a impartial venue. The PCB has additionally shot off a letter to the ICC asking the world physique to provide in writing its and BCCI’s stance.
India and Pakistan final performed a bilateral sequence in 2012-13. Since then, they’ve performed one another solely in ICC and Asian Cricket Council occasions. The 2023 Asia Cup, the place Pakistan have been the hosts, noticed a hybrid mannequin the place India performed its matches in Sri Lanka.
In response to a report in Cricbuzz, if Pakistan Cricket Board continues to take care of its robust stance and the Champions Trophy will get affected it could end in sanctions from the ICC. If PCB withdraw, its ICC funding might be lower considerably. Shifting or suspending the match might imply PCB dropping out on roughly USD 65 million as host charges. Lately the PCB upgraded three venues – Karachi, Rawalpindi, and Lahore – for the Champions Trophy and any monetary loss would harm them much more.
The PCB has conveyed to the ICC that safety isn’t a difficulty within the nation which efficiently hosted England and New Zealand just lately and promised the identical for the Champions Trophy.
It remained steadfast on its stand to not have the occasion in hybrid mannequin, just like the final yr’s Asia Cup when India’s matches have been held in Sri Lanka.
The ICC is but to answer the PCB and was discussing the schedule with the taking part groups.
Information company PTI has discovered that the PCB can be not eager to host the match outdoors the nation, not even within the UAE.
Nonetheless the launch occasion in Lahore has been pushed again.
It was being deliberate in Lahore as per ICC administration’s briefing to the ICC CEC and ICC Board on twenty first October in Dubai. However this has now been placed on a maintain, knowledgeable an ICC insider.
With PTI inputs
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