ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Updates
ICC Champions Trophy Short History:
The ICC Champions Trophy, also called the “Mini World Cup“or simply “Champions Trophy” is a cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council after every four years. Inaugurated in 1998, The ICC conceived the idea of the Champions Trophy a short cricket tournament to raise funds for the development of the game in non-test playing countries. It remains as one of those ICC events that had the same format as that of another big cricketing event, like the Cricket World Cup, with the format being One Day Internationals. The tournament is one of the world’s most viewed sporting events.The first Champions Trophy was organised in Bangladesh in June 1998, with the Cricket World Cup having had existed for 26 years with eight completed editions. The first two Champions Trophies were held in ICC Associate member nations Bangladesh and Kenya, to increase the popularity of the sport in those countries and then use the funds collected for the development of their cricket. From the 2002 tournament onwards, hosting has been shared between countries under an unofficial rotation system, with six ICC members having hosted at least one match in the tournament.
How Teams Qualifies For Champion Trophy
The current format involves a qualification phase, which takes place in the preceding edition of the Cricket One Day World Cup, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. The top eight ranked teams in the World Cup (including the hosts of the Champions Trophy) secure a berth for the tournament. A total of thirteen teams have competed in the 8 editions of the tournament, with eight teams competing in the 2017 tournament. Australia and India have won the tournament twice, while South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Pakistan have won it once each. Seven national teams have played in every edition of the tournament yet.Pakistan are the current champions after winning the 2017 tournament, held in England and Wales.
ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Host
The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be the 9th edition of the ICC Champions Trophy, will be hosted by Pakistan from 19 February to 9 March 2025. On 28 April 2024, three venues were reported to be proposed for the event by Pakistan.The venues are Karachi (National Stadium), Lahore (Gaddafi Stadium) and Rawalpindi (Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium). India is scheduled to play the entire tournament in Lahore.
List of qualified teams for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy
- Pakistan (Host Nation)
- India
- Australia
- England
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
Points Table of ICC World Cup 2023
| Rank | Team | Matches | Wins | Losses | NRR | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India (Q) | 9 | 9 | 0 | +2.570 | 18 |
| 2 | South Africa (Q) | 9 | 7 | 2 | +1.261 | 14 |
| 3 | Australia (Q) | 9 | 7 | 2 | +0.841 | 14 |
| 4 | New Zealand (Q) | 9 | 5 | 4 | +0.743 | 10 |
| 5 | Pakistan (Host) | 9 | 4 | 5 | -0.199 | 8 |
| 6 | Afghanistan (Q) | 9 | 4 | 5 | -0.336 | 8 |
| 7 | England (Q) | 9 | 3 | 6 | -0.572 | 6 |
| 8 | Bangladesh (Q) | 9 | 2 | 7 | -1.087 | 4 |
| 9 | Sri Lanka (E) | 9 | 2 | 7 | -1.419 | 4 |
| 10 | Netherlands (E) | 9 | 2 | 7 | -1.825 | 4 |
Will India Travel To the Pakistan for ICC Champions Trophy
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) vice-president Rajeev Shukla has quashed rumours of the Indian cricket team not travelling to Pakistan to participate in the Champions Trophy 2025.
The reason behind this statement The Political Relationships between India and Pakistan, security reason is just excuse by indian cricket board (BCCI) and their Goverment. The Indian Cricket team is unlikely to travel to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 owing to tensed relationship shared by the two neighbours, ANI reported citing sources on Thursday. BCCI will ask ICC to host matches in Hybrid model in Dubai and Sri Lanka indian media source said. As in 2023 Asia Cup was done on Hybrid model “The tournament will be hosted in a hybrid model with four matches being held in Pakistan, and the remaining nine matches being played in Sri Lanka.” According to a PCB statement, India will not be playing any of its matches in Pakistan. It was happened in 2023 when PCB Chairman was Najam Sathi. But now it’s 2024 Chairman of PCB is Mohsin Naqvi and the most important thing is that it’s ICC tournament. If ICC refuse to BCCI then what happen will India bycot the tournament and Sri Lanka will play the Champion Trophy as on holding the nineth position on table? Well i don’t think it will be good for cricket and icc.
What Pakistan should do for icc champion trophy?
These kind of news are like pre analycis of the situation so BCCI can take the right decision about the travel of indian cricket team to Pakistan. Pakistan should talk directly to ICC because this tournament is organized by ICC and ask them to convence India to travel Pakistan but ICC offers Pakistan Hybrid model then Pakistan should do like that:
Group A
- Pakistan (Hosts)
- Bangladesh
- South Africa
- New Zealand
Group B
- India
- England
- Afghanistan
- Australia
Group A Mathes held in Pakistan and Group B in Dubai or Sri Lanka 1st semifinal in Pakistan and 2nd semifinal in Hybrid country if india do not go in semifianl or final then both semifinal and final will be held in Pakistan. If India goes into the final then final should be in Hybrid Country. Pakistan must tell the ICC that from onword Pakistan will also not travell India in future 2026 ICC T20 WC because of our political relatonship.
This is not an official statement it’s our personal oppion which can be right and wrong _ Laraib Sunny
