An undated image of ICC Champions Trophy. — ICC
KARACHI: The Worldwide Cricket Council has revealed a brand new visible id for the upcoming males’s and girls’s Champions Trophy occasions, marking the return of the distinguished event after a six-year hole.
The brand new id, showcased in a launch video, features a new unconventional typographic emblem and design parts, which, in line with the ICC, is impressed by cricket’s distinctive language and tradition.
The video additionally highlights the emblem of ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Pakistan.
“The newly created visual identity is a digital-first vibrant expression, deliberately challenging the status quo, with an unconventional typographic logo which sets the tone for the look – bold and loud, confident and fun,” mentioned an ICC assertion.
“It has been designed to be agile, distinctive, and expressive, it’s inspired by the language of cricket; from the unique and integral words that describe the game, to the shouts when a wicket falls, to the name of each superstar that appears on the back of their kit. Both the verbal and written words are an integral part of the sport and that is celebrated through the brand,” the assertion added.
It additionally options Pakistan’s iconic truck artwork, highlighting the nation’s cultural heritage because it prepares to host the lads’s occasion in 2025.
The boys’s ICC Champions Trophy will happen in Pakistan subsequent yr, the primary version since 2017. The ladies’s Champions Trophy, in a T20 format, will debut in 2026, hosted by Sri Lanka.
The event got here when the apex cricketing physique is in a ‘catch-22’ scenario after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) sought explanations over the Board of Management for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) refusal to ship its workforce to the host nation.
Sources claimed that if India certainly refuses to ship its cricket workforce to Pakistan and the ICC accepts this refusal, the PCB will categorically refuse to play any matches towards the Indian cricket workforce throughout the Champions Trophy underneath any circumstances.
In the meantime, opposite to the studies within the Indian media that recommended that the ICC might transfer the occasion outdoors of Pakistan, the sources mentioned that there is no such improvement.
