ICC Champions Trophy 2025 LIVE: Schedule, Squad, Matches L, Live Cricket Score, Live Streaming & Telecast Channel in India
ICC Champions Trophy 2025 LIVE Updates: Pakan will host its first major ICC tournament since co-hosting the 1996 World Cup with Sri Lanka and India. The ICC Champions Trophy will mean that a big-ticket event will be hosted Pakan after three decades.The 2025 Champions Trophy will see almost all big teams from the world travel to Pakan. Only India will be playing their home matches in UAE in the hybrid format.
Cricket fans in Pakan have largely been deprived of live action in their country after the 2009 terror attack on the Sri Lanka team at Lahore. The attack led to international teams avoiding tours to Pakan for almost a decade because of security concerns. The Sri Lankan test team returned in 2019 as international cricket made slow inroads back.
What is the Champions Trophy?
The eight-nation, limited-overs tournament hasn’t been contested since 2017, when Pakan beat India in the final in England. The Champions Trophy was launched in 1998 and initially held every two years but later moved to a four-year cycle in between World Cups — the pinnacle in cricket’s one-day format. The eight participating teams this time were based on rankings after the 2023 World Cup in India, with Pakan qualifying automatically as host. India, New Zealand and Bangladesh are in Group A with host Pakan. England, South Africa, Australia and Afghanan are in Group B.
Pakan was awarded the 2008 Champions Trophy, but due to security concerns the tournament was shifted to South Africa in 2009. India was due to host the Champions Trophy in 2021, but it was replaced with the T20 World Cup and was played in the UAE.
(With inputs from AP)
