Pakistani and Indian gamers shake arms after the ICC males’s Twenty20 World Cup 2022 cricket match at Melbourne Cricket Floor in Melbourne on October 23, 2022. — AFPHybrid mannequin to use to Girls’s WC, Males’s T20 WC 2026.PCB has been awarded internet hosting rights of Girls’s T20 WC.No India-Pakistan bilateral collection has taken place since 2008.
The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) Males’s 2025 Champions Trophy might be held below a hybrid mannequin, with India set to play their matches at a impartial venue slightly than within the host nation, Pakistan.
The ICC Board confirmed this on Thursday, saying the hybrid mannequin will apply to the upcoming Champions Trophy, hosted by Pakistan in February and March 2025, in addition to the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2025, hosted by India, and the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026, hosted by India and Sri Lanka.
The breakthrough comes after a weeks-long impasse between Pakistan and India because the latter determined to not enable its staff to cross the border for the mega occasion, which Islamabad slammed as politicisation of sports activities.
The eight-team occasion will characteristic Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, and South Africa, alongside hosts Pakistan.
The schedule for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is ready to be confirmed quickly, with Pakistan aiming to defend the title they received in 2017.
For greater than 10 years, India’s authorities has prohibited the nationwide cricket staff from travelling to Pakistan for bilateral occasions because of the political tensions between the neighbours.
In consequence, no bilateral collection has taken place between India and Pakistan since 2008 and the arch-rivals, whose matches appeal to essentially the most viewers, solely face one another in worldwide tournaments.
It was additionally introduced by the ICC Board that the PCB has been awarded internet hosting rights of the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in 2028, the place impartial venue preparations can even apply.
Alternatively, Cricket Australia is ready to host one of many senior ICC girls’s occasions throughout the interval 2029 to 2031, it added.
