This photo is from 2017 when Pakistan team won the ICC Champions Trophy title.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released the schedule of the Champions Trophy tour on Saturday. It does not contain the names of cities of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Earlier, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had released the schedule of Champions Trophy tour on social media on Thursday. This included 3 cities of PoK, Hunza, Skardu and Muzaffarabad.
PCB has got the hosting rights of the Champions Trophy to be held in February 2025. Its trophy tour has started from Islamabad on Saturday. Apart from seven cities of Pakistan, the trophy will go to 7 cricketing nations. This trophy will reach India on 15-26 January.
ICC posted and released the schedule, it does not include PoK cities
PoK had 3 cities in PCB's schedule PCB had shared a post regarding the trophy tour on its social media handle on Thursday. PCB had written, 'The tour will start from Islamabad on 16th November. The trophy will travel through many cities and also to beautiful places like Skardu, Hunza and Muzaffarabad in PoK.
BCCI objects to PoK cities A source had told news agency ANI, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah had expressed objection to PCB's announcement of holding the Champions Trophy tour in PoK. Shah had raised this matter before the ICC. He had said that there should be no political interference in this matter.
Questions on hosting Champions Trophy, 3 reasons 1. India refused to go to Pakistan The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has refused to play the Champions Trophy in Pakistan a few . ICC had given this information to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) through official mail. 2. PCB will not adopt hybrid model BCCI wants Team India's matches to be held in UAE or Dubai, although PCB has already made it clear that it will not hold the Champions Trophy in the hybrid model. Hybrid model means that in the Champions Trophy, the matches against India should be played at neutral venues and the rest of the tournament should be played in Pakistan.
3. UAE-South Africa can be options Pakistan may also be deprived of hosting the Champions Trophy to be held in February next year. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has given official information about this to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). Pakistan has sought advice from its government on this matter.
Pakistan's newspaper The Dawn quoted a PCB source as saying – If Pakistan is stripped of hosting, it may refuse to play in the tournament. If this happens then South Africa and UAE can be given hosting rights. Due to strained political relations, the Indian team has not played in Pakistan since 2008.
Champions Trophy to be played in Pakistan Pakistan is scheduled to host the Champions Trophy in February 2025, but Team India has refused to go to Pakistan.
November 15: ICC asked BCCI to explain the reason for not sending Team India to Pakistan. ICC has sought a written reply from BCCI for not sending the Indian team to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy. ANI quoted the report of Pakistani channel Geo News and wrote, PCB has requested ICC to give them a copy of India's reply.
November 12: PCB wrote to ICC – Why can't Pakistan come to India? Three , Pakistan Cricket Board had sought answers from ICC regarding Team India not going to Pakistan. According to the report of Cricbuzz, the PCB spokesperson had said that if India and Pakistan are not coming due to security issues, then the teams of New Zealand, England and Australia have visited Pakistan recently. Then why is Team India facing problems?
India did not go to Pakistan in Asia Cup, hybrid model was adopted
India defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the final of the Asia Cup.
The Asia Cup was played in September last year. Pakistan had got the opportunity to host it, but India had refused to go to Pakistan. After this, ACC conducted this tournament in hybrid model. All of India's matches were played in Sri Lanka and the rest of the tournament took place in Pakistan. Pakistan played its match against India in Sri Lanka.
Pakistan team came to India for ODI World Cup Pakistan team came to India last year to play the ODI World Cup. Then the match between India and Pakistan was played in Ahmedabad on 14 October. The Indian team won this match by 7 wickets. Captain Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer had scored fifties. Jasprit Bumrah became the player of the match. He took 2 wickets for 19 runs.
India is not going to Pakistan after the terrorist attack in Mumbai The Indian team has not toured Pakistan since 2007–08. After the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008, the Indian government refused to play cricket in Pakistan. Since then both the teams play only in ICC and ACC tournaments. Since 2013, both the teams have played 13 ODIs and 8 T20 matches at neutral venues. There was also a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in Pakistan during 2009.
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