Champions Trophy 2025 is going to start from 19 February. This tournament is being organized in a hybrid model. The tournament will be played under the hosting of Pakistan. Team India will play all its matches in Dubai. Team India will play the first match of the tournament against Bangladesh on 20 February. At the same time, a total of 8 teams are participating in the tournament, for which the Indian team has not been announced yet.
strong>According to the report, a meeting will be held on January 19 and the team may be announced on that day. However, official information about this is yet to come. Before this tournament, Team India has to play the last series of ODI format against England from February 6, which will have 3 matches.
The Indian team will play all its matches in the Champions Trophy in Dubai. Although Pakistan is the host of this tournament, but due to India it will be played under the hybrid model. The opening ceremony of this tournament will be held in Pakistan, about which a report has come out. A source told news agency IANS that Indian team captain Rohit Sharma (Rohit Sharma will visit Pakistan for Champions Trophy 2025 Opening Ceremony) is expected to visit Pakistan. All the captains will go to Pakistan to participate in the opening ceremony of the Champions Trophy.
Before the ICC tournament, the captains of all the teams have a photo-shoot and press conference in the host country. In such a situation, Rohit Sharma can also go to Pakistan to participate in photo shoot and press conference.
PCB has planned to organize the opening ceremony. This opening ceremony can be held on 6 or 17 February. It will depend on the schedule of warm-up matches. Captains of all the teams need to participate in this ceremony. This marks the return of a mega international cricket event in Pakistan after 29 years.
The Champions Trophy 2025 will be an eight-team event, which includes Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, South Africa and hosts Pakistan. The tournament will begin between hosts Pakistan and New Zealand in Karachi and the Indian team will begin its campaign by playing a match against Bangladesh on February 20. At the same time, the India vs Pakistan match will be played in Dubai on February 23.
India last played in Pakistan in 2008 for the Asia Cup. Since then, the team has not travelled to the country citing poor political relations between the two of them. The last bilateral series between the two nations was played in 2013 when Pakistan traveled to India for a T20I and an ODI series.
However, Pakistan have constantly traveled to India for ICC tournaments despite India's reluctance over the years. But the ICC has announced that the same hybrid model will apply for the events held in India and Pakistan won't be obliged to travel to their neighboring country.
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