The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has proposed the Champions Trophy 2025 to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). According to Cricbuzz, the PCB has said that Team India can return to India after playing every match and the Pakistani board will help them in this.
The report said that the PCB has recently written to the BCCI. It has been said that if the Indian team does not want to stay in Pakistan for security reasons and wants to return to Chandigarh or New Delhi after each match, the board will help them. A PCB official confirmed the proposal. The reason for this offer is the one week gap between India's last 2 matches.
According to reports, during the recent visit of Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Pakistan, there was a discussion about the Indian team going to Pakistan. The issue was raised several times during the talks between Jaishankar and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar. The PCB is hopeful after this visit, though no official statement has been released yet.
This photo of the Pakistan cricket team is dated 18 June 2017, when the team won the Champions Trophy.
Last year, Pakistan came to India to play the ODI World Cup The Pakistan team came to India to play the ODI World Cup last year. Then on October 14, a match was played between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad. The Indian team won this match by 7 wickets.
Captain Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer scored half centuries. Jasprit Bumrah was named player of the match. He took 2 wickets for 19 runs.
Understand the India-Pakistan bilateral series in 2 points…
- Pakistan tour of India 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 T20 series was tied at 1-1.
- India's tour of Pakistan Team India last toured Pakistan in 2008. The Indian team won that series of 3 test matches 1-0. The remaining 2 matches of this series were drawn.
India is not going to Pakistan because of the terrorist attack in Mumbai The Indian team has not toured Pakistan since 2007-08. After the terrorist attack on Mumbai in 2008, the Indian government refused to play cricket in Pakistan. Since then both teams play only in ICC and ACC tournaments. Since 2013, both teams have played 13 ODIs and 8 T20 matches at neutral venues.
Pakistan gets to host Champions Trophy 2025 The Champions Trophy 2025 has been awarded to Pakistan. The PCB has submitted the draft of the tournament venue and program to the ICC. The tournament is scheduled to be played in February-March next year. According to the draft, India has been placed in Group-A along with Pakistan, Bangladesh and New Zealand. Group-B consists of Australia, South Africa, England and Afghanistan. As per the schedule, India will play three matches on February 20 (against Bangladesh), February 23 (against Pakistan) and March 2 (against New Zealand). All the matches of Team India can be played in Lahore.
The Asia Cup was held in Sri Lanka Last year also, Pakistan hosted the Asia Cup. Even when India did not go there, the tournament was held on a 'hybrid model'. The match against India was held in Sri Lanka. In the final match played in Colombo, the Indian team won the championship by defeating Sri Lanka by 10 wickets.
India defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the final of the Asia Cup.
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