By Kaif - February 04, 2025 03:34 PMChampions Trophy 2025: The countdown for ICC Champions Trophy 2025 has begun. This tournament is scheduled to begin from February 19 under the hosting of Pakistan. This tournament is being organized for the first time since 2017. 8 teams are participating in this tournament.
The name of the finalist of this tournament will be revealed on March 9. Meanwhile, former Indian team coach Ravi Shastri and former Australian team captain Ricky Ponting (Ravi Shastri & Ricky Ponting Predicts Champions Trophy Final Teams Names) have made a prediction about the finalist teams. They have chosen the teams of India and Australia as the finalist teams of the tournament.
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Talking in ICC Review, Ricky Ponting said that it is difficult, but I would choose the teams of India and Australia. Ponting said that right now think about the quality of players of both the countries and you look back in recent history when these big finals and big ICC events have taken place and inevitably Australia and India are present somewhere. In the ICC website, Shastri selected the teams of England and South Africa as semi-finalists.
Let us tell you that the final match of the 2023 ODI World Cup was played between the teams of India and Australia (India Vs Australia). Both the teams have won the Champions Trophy title twice and the 2023 WTC Final was also played between the two teams.
The Kangaroo team won the ODI World Cup 2023 Final and the WTC Final 2023 Final. At the same time, in the history of the Champions Trophy, India won the Champions Trophy title in 2002 and 2013. However, India suffered a humiliating defeat against Pakistan in the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy.
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