BCCI Confirms that India Won't Travel to Pakistan for Champions Trophy

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has reportedly informed the International Cricket Council (ICC) that  team India will not be traveling to Pakistan for the 2025 Champions Trophy. This comes a day after Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohsin Naqvi stated in a press conference that the PCB did not receive any official communication from the BCCI.

The Champions Trophy was actually scheduled to take place in Pakistan from February 19 to March 9, 2025. Moreover, there has been ongoing uncertainty regarding India's participation in the tournament. The last time that the Indian team visited Pakistan was in 2008 for the Asia Cup.

According to a report by news agency PTI, the PCB now has no choice but to organize the Champions Trophy using a hybrid model, following the BCCI's notification to the ICC that India will not be travelling to Pakistan for the 1 day event.

"This is an ICC event and BCCI has informed the global body that it won't travel to Pakistan. It will depend on ICC to inform the host nation about the development and then close in on the scheduling of the tournament. The convention is to announce the schedule 100 days prior to the commencement of the event," PTI quoted a BCCI source as saying.

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