Pakistan opts for UAE as impartial venue for India’s Champions Trophy matches: Report | Cricket Information – Instances of India

Host of the ‘hybrid’ 2025 Champions Trophy, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), has formally communicated to the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) that their impartial venue of alternative for India’s matches would be the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
“Pakistan has chosen Dubai because the impartial venue for the Champions Trophy and it has been conveyed to the ICC formally, which means India will play its matches there,” a spokesman for the PCB mentioned, as quoted by AFP.
The UAE has three worldwide stadiums – in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.
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PCB chairman, Mohsin Naqvi, and Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) chairman, Sheikh Mubarak Al Nahyan, had a gathering to finalize their choice, based on a Cricbuzz report. The India vs Pakistan crowd-puller is prone to be held on February 23, it added.
Nonetheless, the match fixtures are but to be formally introduced by the ICC.

The impasse over the internet hosting mannequin of the February 19 to March 9 Champions Trophy subsequent yr was damaged on December 19 after an settlement between the ICC, PCB and the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) on the premise that India-Pakistan matches in international occasions shall be performed at impartial venues until 2027.
“This may apply to the ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025 (Pakistan), ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025 (India) and the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026 (India and Sri Lanka),” the ICC had mentioned in its assertion.
The standoff had begun after the BCCI informed the ICC that the Indian workforce will not journey to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy.
Apart from India and Pakistan, the opposite groups that includes within the Champions Trophy shall be Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.