India-Pak will clash in Champions Trophy on 23 February: All matches of Team India in Dubai, New Zealand-Bangladesh also in India’s group.

ICC has released the schedule of Champions Trophy 2025 on Tuesday. The tournament to be held in the hybrid model will start from February 19 and continue till March 9. The group match between India and Pakistan will be held in Dubai on 23 February. India will play all its matches in Dubai, the team also has Bangladesh and New Zealand in its group.

A semi-final and final will also be played in Dubai itself. Whereas the remaining 10 matches of the tournament will be held in Pakistan. ICC had confirmed that the Champions Trophy will be held in hybrid model only. Pakistan is the defending champion of the tournament, the team won the title in 2017 by defeating India in the final.

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 2 semi-finals on 4th and 5th March, while the final will be played on 9th March.

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 Thursday. 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.

All 15 members agree to hybrid model A meeting of all the board members was held on December 5 in the presence of ICC’s new chairman Jai Shah. Shah had also reached the headquarters in Dubai this month. In the meeting, all 15 board members agreed to the hybrid model. Pakistan also did not oppose the decision in the meeting.

Jay Shah reached ICC’s headquarters in Dubai after becoming the chairman on 5th December.

PCB’s demands

Why was the decision delayed? 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, 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.

The last international match between India and Pakistan was in the 2024 T20 World Cup. Then India won by 6 runs.

Foreign Ministry said, Pakistan will not go to India under any circumstances On Friday, the Foreign Ministry had also made it clear that the Indian team will not go to Pakistan. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal confirmed this news. He said, BCCI has refused to go to Pakistan citing security reasons. Team India will not go to Pakistan to play Champions Trophy under any circumstances. If ICC wants to play the tournament without India then the team is ready for that also. Read Bhaskar’s exclusive news…

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 ODIs and 2 T20 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.

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