LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has proposed hosting all of India’s matches in the Champions Trophy, scheduled to be held in February 2025, in Lahore, a leading media channel reported on Wednesday quoting sources.
According to the report Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sent the draft schedule of the Champions Trophy matches to the International Cricket Council (ICC) for further approval. ICC would examine the proposal in its Board meeting to be held in Sri Lanka in July.
Earlier, it was reported that Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi would be the three proposed venues in the initial draft schedule of the 2025 Champions Trophy, shared recently with the ICC.
In a recent press conference in Lahore, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi said that PCB has sent the schedule for the matches in Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy adding that the ICC’s security team came and he had a great meeting with them.
It is worth noting that Pakistan and India have not played a Test since 2007/08 and a bilateral series in any format since 2012/13 due to the long-standing political turmoil between the two neighbouring nations.
The arch-rivals, however, met face to face in multi-national events like Asia Cup and ICC World Cups.
In addition, the PCB in its capacity has already intimated the government to provide foolproof security to visiting international teams for the Champions Trophy.
The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 would be an eight-tournament and the structure would follow previous editions with two groups of four followed by semi-finals and the final.
