The 2025 Champions Trophy will be scheduled in Pakistan this time, All top 7 teams including the host, Pakistan will play the ODI format match.
Lahore, Karachi, and Rawalpindi are the three venues proposed by the PCB in the initial draft schedule of the 2025 Champions Trophy, sent recently to the ICC. The tournament has been inked in for a mid-February window as the PCB hastens plans to upgrade venues that will host the first ICC event in the country in nearly 30 years.
Pakistan are defending champions having won what was thought to be the last edition of the Champions Trophy in 2017. But, in 2022, the ICC brought back the tournament in the new rights cycle (2023-27) and awarded the hosting rights of the 2025 edition to Pakistan.
It is not officially announced about the India’s participation in this mega event.
Discussions on the schedule will likely focus now on India’s presence
Normally, once the host board sends in the draft schedule, it undergoes various iterations which are done by various teams within the ICC, which then share it with the broadcaster and the other boards before the schedule is finalized. The next official ICC meeting is the global body’s annual conference in July.
Once India finalizes the participation in this event the ICC will release the Schedule for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy will be the ninth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy, a cricket tournament for the eight top-ranked One Day International (ODI) men’s national teams organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It will be hosted by Pakistan in February and March 2025. Pakistan is the defending champions having won the previous edition in 2017.
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