Will Team India Go To Lahore For The Champions Trophy ? | Pakistan Unveils Renovated Gaddafi Stadium
On February 19 Champions Trophy 2025 will begin, with hosts Pakistan taking on New Zealand in Karachi. The final match will be played on March 9. So if we talk about Indian team matches the PCB opted for a hybrid model with India's matches to be held in Dubai because India refused to travel to Pakistan. That decision was arrived at after a long impasse.
On February 16 the PCB will host an event in Lahore to mark the start of the tournament. For some logistical reasons there will be no captains meet, or press conference. This also ends the speculations about whether India captain Rohit Sharma will travel to Pakistan or not. Even Indian match officials are not travelling to Pakistan because of political tension between the two countries. The last time India visited Pakistan was for the 2008 Asia Cup, even though Pakistan have played several ICC tournaments in India since then.
It is sure that India playing in Champions Trophy 2025 in Dubai, and also they are in the same group and will face each other on February 23, Sunday in Dubai. The squad of India for the Champions Trophy 2025 is Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja.
Now we talk about Pakistan has unveils a renovated Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore ahead of the 2025 Champions Trophy. The Pakistan renovation of our ground took 117 days to complete and among the new facilities are LED floodlights, larger score screens, new hospitality boxes and upgraded seating arrangement. Photos were posted by the Pakistan Cricket Board on social media standing in the renovated stadium by the Pakistan and New Zealand captains Mohammad Rizwan and Mitchell Santner had earlier posed. The first match in Lahore will be between Australia and England on February 22.
Pakistan cricket team unveiling their new jerseys in the presence of Rizwan and the rest of the members of the Pakistan cricket team wearing for the tournament. In under two weeks Karachi's National Bank Stadium will host the first Champions Trophy match between Pakistan and New Zealand. The Pakistan Cricket Board first promised Lahore's stadium would be open by the end of January and according the local media reported its renovation had run past three deadlines between December 15 and January 25, before a final pledge to finish by January 31 was settled upon.
So on February 19 Champions Trophy 2025 will begin, with hosts Pakistan taking on New Zealand in Karachi. The final match will be played on March 9.