Champions Trophy 2025: Where will the Indian team play, the final is done! This country got hosting, not Pakistan

Sports Desk: Champions Trophy 2025 may start in February. However, the schedule of this tournament has not been announced yet. ICC has made it clear that this tournament will be played on hybrid model only. Indian team will not tour Pakistan. The venue for this tournament has also been decided. The Indian team will play its league stage matches in Dubai. Official announcement is still pending.

If the Indian team reaches the knockout, then its semi-finals and final will also be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A reliable source in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said Dubai was chosen as the neutral venue after a meeting between PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi and his UAE counterpart Sheikh Nahyan Al Mubarak on Saturday night. Sheikh Nahyan is currently holidaying in Ghotki area of ​​Sindh. Naqvi is also the Home Minister of Pakistan. He met Sheikh Nahyan to finalize the administrative matters of the tournament to be hosted by Pakistan.

The Indian team will not go to Pakistan in whatever ICC tournaments will be held till 2027. At the same time, Pakistan team will also not come to India. Both countries will play on hybrid model only. It is expected that ICC will announce the schedule of Champions Trophy soon. In which 9 to 10 matches can be held in Pakistan. If India cannot qualify for the knockout, then the title match will also be played in Lahore, Pakistan.

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The arrangement of the hybrid model will be applicable in the Champions Trophy 2025 (Pakistan), the Women's Cricket World Cup to be held in India next year and the T20 World Cup to be held in India and Sri Lanka in 2026. India had refused to travel to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy to be held in February–March due to security concerns. Indian players have not played a match in Pakistan since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 150 people were killed. The last bilateral tournament between the two countries was held in 2012. (with language input)