India won't travel to Pakistan for Champions Trophy 2025: report
Pakistan are in line to host an international cricket event for the first since the 1996 World Cup
Team India may not travel to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy next year, and the venue for the event will likely get relocated or a hybrid model might be used, a BCCI source told IANS on Tuesday.
Pakistan are in line to host an international cricket event for the first since the 1996 World Cup and the major venues across the country are being upgraded.
Recently, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi on Monday said that they would think about a bilateral series with India if they send their team to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy.
Meanwhile, India have shut down the talks for a bilateral series once again and said that they might not send a team to Pakistan for the ICC event next year.
"Forget bilateral series...Team India may not even travel to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy. There might be a change of venue, a hybrid model is also possible," a BCCI source said.
"The Indian board would need permission from the government for travel, currently our relations with Pakistan are not that good either,” the source added.
“Champions Trophy is an ICC event, so it would be a tough call for India but nothing without the government's order/green signal. Bilateral series, I don't see in the near future, that's next to impossible.”
Remember, the talks emerged for the bilateral Test series after India's captain, Rohit Sharma, mentioned in an interview with the Club Prairie Fire podcast that it would be awesome for India to play Pakistan in a Test match hosted by a neutral country.
“It’ll be a good contest, especially if you play overseas conditions. They’re [Pakistan] a good team. They have got a superb bowling lineup… At the end of the day, we want to be in a contest and I think it will be a great contest between the two sides.
"We anyway play them in ICC trophies, so it doesn’t matter. It’s just pure cricket that I’m looking at. I’m not interested in anything else. It’s pure cricket, the game between bat and ball. It’ll be a great contest," he added.
India and Pakistan last competed in a Test match in the 2007/08 season and their last bilateral white-ball series was in 2012/13, when Pakistan visited India for an ODI and T20I series.
Currently, the two nations only face each other in events like the Asia Cup and global tournaments, including the 50-over World Cup, where India triumphed over Pakistan on home turf last year, and the T20 World Cup.
The Indian government currently does not endorse bilateral matches against Pakistan due to significant political tensions between the two nations.
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