The Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed the selection of the United Arab Emirates as the neutral venue for the 2025 Champions Trophy. “The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has selected the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a neutral venue for the 2025 Champions Trophy,” PCB spokesperson Amir Mir said in a statement to IANS. .
“The PCB has formally informed the ICC about the decision on neutral venue.Currently, the Champions Trophy match between India and Pakistan will be held in the UAE.The decision on neutral venue for the Champions Trophy will be taken by the hosts Pakistan. The final decision on the venue was taken after a meeting between Mohsin Naqvi and Sheikh Al Nahyan, who is currently in Pakistan,” he added.
The International Cricket Council’s board on Thursday confirmed that matches between India and Pakistan in future ICC events up to 2027, including next year’s Champions Trophy 2025, will be played at neutral venues.
The neutral venue arrangement applies to the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 (hosted by Pakistan), ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 (hosted by India) and ICC Men’s T20, scheduled to be held in February and March 2025. 2026 World Cup (hosted by India and Sri Lanka). It will also apply to the 2028 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, which Pakistan has won the right to host.
Due to tense political relations, India and Pakistan only participate in international tournaments such as the World Cup and Asian Cup. The last bilateral series between the two countries was in 2012-13 when Pakistan toured India for a five-match white-ball series.
The Champions Trophy is scheduled to be held in February and March 2025. Meanwhile, the ICC said the schedule for the marquee tournament would be confirmed within the next few days. Pakistan are the defending champions of the tournament having defeated India by 180 runs in the final at The Oval in 2017.
The last time the two teams met was in the T20 World Cup in New York earlier this year, where India won by six runs and clinched their second silver medal in the format.
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