Pakistan is scheduled to host the Champions Trophy in February 2025.
The International Cricket Council has refused Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to conduct the Champions Trophy tour in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir after BCCI’s objection.
News agency IANS has made this claim quoting a report. No official statement has come yet from ICC and PCB on this matter.
An ICC official told Dainik Bhaskar that the plan for the Champions Trophy tour is issued by ICC only. In such a situation, there is no question of denying or accepting anything regarding the trophy tour. Right now we are discussing the schedule of the trophy tour.
A source told news agency ANI, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has expressed objection to PCB’s announcement of holding the Champions Trophy tour in PoK. Shah has taken up the matter with the ICC. He said that there should be no political interference in this matter. ICC should take action regarding this.
Earlier, PCB had shared a post on its social media handle on Thursday regarding the trophy tour. PCB wrote, ‘The tour will start from Islamabad on 16th November. After this, it will also go to Skardu, Hunza and Muzaffarabad in PoK, passing through many cities.
Champions Trophy to be played in Pakistan Pakistan is scheduled to host the Champions Trophy in February 2025, but Team India has refused to go to Pakistan.
ICC asked BCCI – tell the reason for not sending Team India to Pakistan ICC has sought a written reply from BCCI for not sending the Indian team to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy. ANI quoted the report of Pakistani channel Geo News and wrote, PCB has requested ICC to give them a copy of India’s reply.
November 12: PCB wrote to ICC – Why can’t Pakistan come to India? Three days ago, Pakistan Cricket Board had sought answers from ICC regarding Team India not going to Pakistan. According to the report of Cricbuzz, the PCB spokesperson had said that if India and Pakistan are not coming due to security issues, then the teams of New Zealand, England and Australia have visited Pakistan recently. Then why is Team India facing problems?
09 November: Pakistan denies hybrid model BCCI wants Team India’s matches to be held in UAE or Dubai, although PCB has already made it clear that it will not hold the Champions Trophy in the hybrid model. Hybrid model means that in the Champions Trophy, the matches against India should be played at neutral venues and the rest of the tournament should be played in Pakistan.
India did not go to Pakistan in Asia Cup, hybrid model was adopted
India defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the final of Asia Cup.
The Asia Cup was played in September last year. Pakistan had got the opportunity to host it, but India had refused to go to Pakistan. After this, ACC conducted this tournament in hybrid model. All of India’s matches were played in Sri Lanka and the rest of the tournament took place in Pakistan. Pakistan played its match against India in Sri Lanka.
Pakistan team came to India for ODI World Cup Pakistan team came to India last year to play the ODI World Cup. Then the match between India and Pakistan was played in Ahmedabad on 14 October. The Indian team won this match by 7 wickets. Captain Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer had scored fifties. Jasprit Bumrah became the player of the match. He took 2 wickets for 19 runs.
- India’s last tour of Pakistan in 2008: Team India last toured Pakistan in 2008. That series of 3 test matches was won by the Indian team 1-0. 2 matches of this series were drawn.
- Pakistan’s last tour of India in 2013: Pakistan last toured India in 2012-13. In that tour, a bilateral series of 3 ODI and 2 T-20 matches was played. Pakistan won the ODI series 2-1, while the T-20 series was tied at 1-1.
India is not going to Pakistan after the terrorist attack in Mumbai The Indian team has not toured Pakistan since 2007–08. After the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008, the Indian government refused to play cricket in Pakistan. Since then both the teams play only in ICC and ACC tournaments. Since 2013, both the teams have played 13 ODIs and 8 T20 matches at neutral venues. There was also a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in Pakistan during 2009.
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