The international cricket council finally approved the hybrid model for the champion’s trophy that is playing in Pakistan next year. The decision is condemns by Pakistan cricket board and the cricket fans, those were waiting for the Pak-India thrilling contest, but Indian politics spoiled the preparations and hopes of the cricket lovers. On the other hand international cricket council has also continued its double standards with green shirts and allows India for play all its matches in neutral venues in instead of Pakistan.
It’s not for the first time that India is refusing to play matches in Pakistan, whenever things have come towards normalization in sports and especially in cricket, India always makes hurdles for Pakistan, In all that exercise the ICC management backed blue shirts, that is harming not only sports in Pakistan but it’s against the spirt of the gentleman’s game. According to the news report of a renowned web site that ICC Men’s 2025 Champions Trophy will follow a hybrid model, with India playing their matches at a neutral venue instead of in Pakistan, the host country.
The ICC Board confirmed this on Thursday, saying the hybrid model will apply to the upcoming Champions Trophy, hosted by Pakistan in February and March 2025, as well as the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, hosted by India, and the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, hosted by India and Sri Lanka.
Sources told the web that the fusion formula would apply to the knock-out matches as well. It was also announced that the PCB has been awarded hosting rights of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2028, where neutral venue arrangements will also apply. The breakthrough comes after a weeks-long deadlock between Pakistan and India as the latter decided not to allow its team to cross the border for the mega event, which Islamabad slammed as politicization of sports. The eight-team event will feature Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, and South Africa, alongside hosts Pakistan.
The schedule for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is set to be confirmed soon, with Pakistan aiming to defend the title they won in 2017.For more than 10 years, India’s government has prohibited the national cricket team from travelling to Pakistan for bilateral events due to the political tensions between the neighbors. As a result, no bilateral series has taken place between India and Pakistan since 2008 and the arch-rivals, whose matches attract the most audience, only face each other in international tournaments.
It was also announced by the ICC Board that the PCB has been awarded hosting rights of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2028, where neutral venue arrangements will also apply. On the other hand, Cricket Australia is set to host one of the senior ICC women’s events during the period 2029 to 2031, it added.
It is a fact that Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi Played vital role to make sure that India should come to play in Pakistan but the ICC management that is now heading by jay shah who Indian national has favor the blue shirts that is Pakistani cricket lovers considering hypocrisy. Now most of the Pakistani cricket experts and fans wants the chairman to go in appeal for the ransomed money, against the predicted loss to the Pakistan cricket board for India’s refusal to play in Pakistan because in the cricket world Pak-India cricket matches are always watched by thousands and billions of cricket lovers. therefor It’s also the responsibility of the International cricket council to not only fine BCCI, but also give extra support to PCB, for the betterment of cricket stature in Pakistan- but it’s fact that it will not be the replacement of the Indian Denial because such duplicity practices are effecting the goodwill of ICC, which is not good for the future of the gentleman’s sports in subcontinent.
