BCCI vs PCB; Champions Trophy 2025: A new controversy has emerged from the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy (IND vs PAK ICC Champions Trophy 2025) to be held in Pakistan and Dubai, in which India reportedly objected to ‘Pakistan’ (name of the host country) being printed on the team’s jersey. Have expressed. India has to play its Champions Trophy matches in Dubai, although Pakistan remains the official host of the tournament. The Pakistan Cricket Board and the International Cricket Council had accepted the hybrid model after the Board of Control for Cricket in India refused to send its team to Pakistan, but the host name of the jersey has created a new controversy.
Speaking to news agency IANS, a PCB official accused BCCI of bringing ‘politics into cricket’ by refusing to print Pakistan’s name on Team India’s jersey. Earlier, the Indian board had also reportedly refused to send captain Rohit Sharma to Pakistan for the captains’ meeting for the Champions Trophy.
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“The BCCI is bringing politics into cricket, which is not at all good for the game. They have refused to go to Pakistan. They are not going to send their captain to Pakistan for the opening ceremony,” a PCB official told the agency on condition of anonymity. Wanted to send, now there are reports that they do not want the name of the host country (Pakistan) to be printed on their jersey.
We believe that the ICC will not allow this to happen and will support Pakistan.” Despite a lot of pressure from the PCB, the BCCI did not change its stand on refusing to send Team India to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy. In the end, Pakistan The board had to agree to India’s terms, although under the new agreement the PCB will not be able to send its team to India for ICC events in the future. There is still about a month left for the Champions Trophy to start, but new controversies are in the news. Has happened.
ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Schedule will start from 19th February and continue till 9th ​​March. It will be hosted by Pakistan and UAE, in which India will play its matches in UAE under the hybrid model. In this tournament of eight teams, there will be 15 matches of 50 overs and these matches will be played in Pakistan and Dubai. The biggest match of the tournament will be played between two arch rivals India and Pakistan on 23 February in Dubai. India will start its campaign against Bangladesh on 20 February. India’s last league match will be against New Zealand on March 2.
Group A of the tournament includes current Champions Trophy holders and hosts Pakistan, India, New Zealand and Bangladesh, while Group B includes Cricket World Cup 2023 champions Australia, Afghanistan, England and South Africa.
India team: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja.
India’s group stage matches:
20 February – India vs Bangladesh, Dubai.
23 February – India vs Pakistan, Dubai.
March 2 – India vs New Zealand, Dubai.
