Will Team India Go Pakistan For ICC Champions Trophy 2025? What Report Says?

Regarding the ICC Champions Trophy, which is scheduled to be held in 2025, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi has asked BCCI whether the Indian team will play in the Champions Trophy 2025 or not. Let us tell you that the Indian team has not played in Pakistan since 2008. Even for the 2023 Asia Cup, BCCI did not send the Indian team to Pakistan, after which the match between India and Pakistan was scheduled in another country.

PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi Will Meet BCCI And ICC

According to a report, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi will meet the ICC Executive Board and BCCI Secretary Jay Shah to discuss team India’s travel plan for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Let us tell you that this time, Pakistan is hosting the ICC Champions Trophy, and ICC has also approved it. “The biggest concern is the participation of India in Pakistan. PCB doesn’t want the repeat of the Asia Cup,” a PCB source told in a report.

New PCB Chairman wants the BCCI to confirm their participation in 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan. (TOI). pic.twitter.com/M6GUsgwVSj
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) March 11, 2024

According to the report, PCB source said that this is the ICC event, and when Pakistan can come to play the World Cup in India, then India should also come to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.

Why does Team India Not Play Cricket in Pakistan?

The Last time bilateral series between India and Pakistan took place in 2012-13 when Pakistan came to India to play white ball cricket; since then, the match between India and Pakistan has been held only in ICC events. India visited Pakistan to play for the last time in 2008; since then, India has gone to Pakistan, so what are the reasons behind it?

There are many theories put forward about this. Still, the biggest theory is that the relationship between the governments of the two countries is not good at all. One more reason can be due to security in Pakistan. In 2009 Sri Lanka team was attacked in Pakistan, and due to this, many teams refused to play there, such as India.

Will Team India Go Pakistan For ICC Champions Trophy 2025?

The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy is set to take place in Pakistan. However, there is still a doubt that team India will Visit Pakistan for the champions trophy, but if we talk about BCCI and PCB cricketing board, then there is a good relationship between the two.

Let us tell you that BCCI president Roger Binny and vice-president Rajeev Shukla visited Pakistan to watch the Asia Cup 2023 match in Pakistan, which happened after 17 years, while Zaka Ashraf, the PCB chief, visited Ahmedabad for World Cup 2023. It is predicted that India will visit Pakistan for the Champions Trophy 2025.