Pakistan are scheduled to host the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy subsequent 12 months. If all goes as deliberate, this would be the first time that the nation will likely be internet hosting an ICC match because the 1996 ODI World Cup. And Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Mohsin Naqvi is taking mandatory steps to make sure the identical. At present, two principal stadiums in Pakistan — Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium and Karachi’s Nationwide Stadium — are at the moment below renovation. Naqvi has additionally instructed the rapid formation of mandatory committees relating to the ICC Champions Trophy.
Nonetheless, there are doubts as as to whether India will journey to the nation for the match or not. Final 12 months, India refused to play the Asia Cup in Pakistan.
In consequence, the match was held below a hybrid mannequin, co-hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka, with the latter internet hosting India’s matches, together with the ultimate.
There was some dialogue that Champions Trophy would possibly comply with the identical suite. India and Pakistan haven’t performed a bilateral collection in over a decade because of the strained political relations between the 2 international locations.
Whereas Pakistan did journey to India for the ODI World Cup final 12 months, the BCCI has iterated, time and time once more, that it’s going to solely ship the Indian workforce to Pakistan if the Central authorities permits.
In accordance with a report in Geo News, Naqvi is ready to satisfy Jay Shah, the secretary of the BCCI, subsequent month to debate the identical.
“The 2 officers are set to satisfy in October throughout the closing match of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup – set to happen in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The assembly between Naqvi and Shah, scheduled for October, will likely be highlighting the participation of the Males in Blue within the forthcoming occasion in Pakistan,” the report acknowledged.
The report additionally claimed that the PCB is ready for ICC’s closing approval relating to the Champions Trophy’s schedule.
“In a latest assembly with ICC officers, the PCB requested to signal the schedule as quickly as potential to make sure clean preparations of the occasion. In accordance with sources, PCB has made provisional bookings primarily based on the proposed schedule and will likely be finalising it quickly. The ICC is predicted to make an official announcement relating to the schedule by the top of October,” the report added.
Final month, Shah was appointed as the brand new chairman of the Worldwide Cricket Council. His tenure, nevertheless, will start in June.
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