Pakistan will be hosting ICC Champions Trophy 2025

ICC Champions Trophy

Originally known as the ICC Knockout when it was staged in 1998 in Dhaka, Bangladesh and in 2000 in Nairobi, Kenya. The event was renamed the ICC Champions Trophy in 2002 was held every two years until 2009 (when it was held in South Africa after the scheduled event in 2008 in Pakistan had to be cancelled). Subsequently the event moved to a four year cycle and features the top eight teams in the ICC one-day rankings.

The first round comprises two groups of four with the top two in each group progressing to the semi-finals and the winners contesting the final. The event is short, sharp and highly competitive.

The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy will be the ninth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy, a cricket tournament for the eight top-ranked One Day International (ODI) men's national teams organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It will be hosted by Pakistan from 19 February to 9 March 2025. Pakistan are the defending champions, having won the previous edition in 2017.

In 2016, the ICC cancelled future editions of the Champions Trophy after the 2017 tournament, aiming to have only one major tournament in each format of international cricket. In November 2021, however, they announced that the tournament would return in 2025.

In December 2022, Ramiz Raja, the former chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board, was given approval by the government for the construction of a new "high-tech" cricket stadium in Islamabad as one of the venues for the tournament.

In November 2023, during the 2023 Cricket World Cup, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) top officials met the ICC Executive Board seeking compensation if the Indian cricket team refuses to visit Pakistan for the tournament citing political and security concerns and the tournament is hosted in the 'hybrid-model'.

Hosted By Pakistan(PCB)

Pakistan was announced as the host of the ICC Champions Trophy on 16 November 2021, during the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[4] It will be first global tournament that Pakistan has been the sole host for since the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team;[8] the last major tournament to take place in the country was the 1996 Cricket World Cup which it co-hosted with India and Sri Lanka.

While there is no official confirmation yet on India touring Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, it is now being learnt that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has left it to the International Cricket Council (ICC) to convince the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to send its team to Pakistan for the next world event.

A PTI report which quoted a PCB source claimed that while the budget for the Champions Trophy was approved at the ICC event, there was no discussion at all on the schedule and the format. In its draft schedule, the PCB has proposed that it will be hosting all of India's matches in Lahore.