Host of the ‘hybrid’ 2025 Champions Trophy, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), has formally communicated to the International Cricket Council (ICC) that their neutral venue of selection for India’s matches would be the United Arab Emirates (UAE,
“Pakistan has chosen Dubai as the neutral venue for the Champions Trophy and it has been conveyed to the ICC officially, meaning India will play its matches there,” a spokesperson for the PCB stated, as quoted by AFP.
The UAE has three worldwide stadiums – in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.
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PCB chairman, Mohsin Naqvi, and Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) chairman, Sheikh Mubarak Al Nahyan, had a gathering to finalize their determination, in keeping with a Cricbuzz report. The India vs Pakistan crowd-puller is prone to be held on February 23, it added.
However, the event fixtures are but to be formally introduced by the ICC.
The impasse over the internet hosting mannequin of the February 19 to March 9 Champions Trophy subsequent 12 months was damaged on December 19 after an settlement between the ICC, PCB and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on the idea that India-Pakistan matches. in international occasions will likely be performed at neutral venues until 2027.
“This will apply to the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 (Pakistan), ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 (India) and the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 (India and Sri Lanka),” the ICC had stated in its assertion.
The standoff had begun after the BCCI informed the ICC that the Indian workforce will not journey to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy.
Besides India and Pakistan, the opposite groups that includes within the Champions Trophy will likely be Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
