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Till now no information has been given by ICC or BCCI regarding Indian captain Rohit Sharma going to Pakistan.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma can visit Pakistan for the opening ceremony of ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The tournament will be hosted by Pakistan from February 19. The Champions Trophy 2025 is being played in the hybrid model. Team India will play all its matches in Dubai.
A source told news agency IANS, Indian captain Rohit Sharma can go to Pakistan for the opening ceremony of the Champions Trophy. All the captains will go to Pakistan to participate in this. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has planned the opening ceremony. This opening ceremony can take place on 16 or 17 February. This will depend on the schedule of warm-up matches.
However, no information has been given yet by ICC or BCCI regarding this.
India will start campaign against Bangladesh India is in Group-A. Pakistan, Bangladesh and New Zealand are in the team’s group. The second group consists of Australia, England, South Africa and Afghanistan. There will be two semi-finals on 4th and 5th March, while the final will be played on 9th March.
India had refused to go to Pakistan Initially India had refused to send its team to Pakistan for this tournament. At first Pakistan remained adamant that India would have to come to Pakistan, but after India’s tough stance, the Pakistan Cricket Board has finally agreed to the hybrid model.
Ever since Pakistan got the opportunity to host the Champions Trophy, there were speculations that the Indian team might refuse to go to Pakistan. India had earlier refused to go to Pakistan to play the Asia Cup in 2023. Then India’s matches in the Asia Cup were held in Sri Lanka.
After this, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had first proposed to hold all the Indian matches in Lahore and send the players to India after the match. When India did not accept this, PCB also refused for the hybrid model.
India-Pakistan teams will not play in each other’s country Teams of India and Pakistan will not play cricket in each other’s country. All India’s matches in the Champions Trophy 2025 will be played at neutral venues. Pakistani team will also not come to India for any tournament till 2027. Its matches will also be held at neutral venues.
Information about this decision of ICC came to light on 19 December. This decision was taken earlier in the meeting. The 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup is to be held in India, the T-20 World Cup in 2026 in India and Sri Lanka.
Earlier, when the ICC had told the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) about holding the Champions Trophy 2025 in a hybrid model, the PCB had put forth a demand before the ICC not to send the team to India, which has now been accepted by the ICC.
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.
- Team India last went to 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 came to India to play bilateral series 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.
The last bilateral series between India and Pakistan took place in January 2013. Since then both the teams have faced each other only in ICC and ACC tournaments.
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.
