Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed that they’ve chosen the United Arab Emirates because the impartial venue for the 2025 Champions Trophy. “The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has chosen the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because the impartial venue for the 2025 Champions Trophy,” stated PCB spokesperson Amir Mir in an announcement to IANS.
“The PCB has formally knowledgeable the ICC concerning the impartial venue determination. Now, India and Pakistan’s Champions Trophy matches will probably be held within the UAE. The choice concerning the impartial venue for the Champions Trophy was to be made by the host, Pakistan. The ultimate determination on the venue was made after a gathering between Mohsin Naqvi and Sheikh Al Nahyan. Sheikh Al Nahyan, at the moment in Pakistan, can also be the Chairman of the UAE Cricket Board,” he added.
The chief board of the Worldwide Cricket Council on Thursday confirmed that matches between India and Pakistan in upcoming ICC occasions until 2027, together with subsequent 12 months’s Champions Trophy 2025, will probably be performed at impartial venues.
The impartial venue preparations will apply to the upcoming ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025 (hosted by Pakistan), set to be performed in February and March 2025, in addition to the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2025 (hosted by India) and the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026 (hosted by India and Sri Lanka). Furthermore, it’s going to even be utilized to the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in 2028, whose internet hosting rights have been awarded to Pakistan.
As a consequence of strained political relations, India and Pakistan solely compete in worldwide occasions just like the World Cup and Asia Cup. The final bilateral collection between the 2 nations was held in 2012-13, when Pakistan toured India for a five-match white-ball collection.
The Champions Trophy is scheduled to be performed in February and March 2025. In the meantime, ICC stated the schedule for the marquee match will probably be confirmed within the coming days. Pakistan are the defending champions of the match, having defeated India by 180 runs within the closing at The Oval in 2017.
Each groups final performed towards one another within the T20 World Cup in New York earlier this 12 months which India gained by six runs and went on to assert their second silverware within the format.
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