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The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) is three choices concerning internet hosting of the subsequent 12 months’s ICC Champions Trophy, which is meant to be held in Pakistan, as per sources. As per sources, the internet hosting rights for now stick with Pakistan. However ICC continues to be exploring some choices for the event scheduled to start out from February 2025. As per sources, ICC is both seeking to have the event go forward in Pakistan as deliberate, or happen in each Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of the hybrid mannequin. As per this hybrid mannequin, matches for India and knockout stage video games will happen in Dubai.
The third possibility is all the event going down exterior Pakistan, with Dubai, Sri Lanka or South Africa as doable hosts, added sources.
Pakistan has not hosted any main Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) occasion for the reason that 1996 ODI World Cup, which it co-hosted with India and Sri Lanka. It was imagined to co-host the 2011 version of the event, however its rights have been stripped after a terror assault on a touring Sri Lanka facet’s bus again in 2009. The event was then performed in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
India has not travelled to Pakistan for the reason that 2008 Asia Cup, however Pakistan has been to India on three events, for a white-ball collection in late December 2012 to January 2013, the 2016 ICC T20 World Cup and the 2023 ODI World Cup, which was fully hosted by India.
In the course of the 2023 WC, Pakistan performed two matches every in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata and the high-voltage match with arch-rivals India was performed at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi stadium on October 14.
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