The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has chosen the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a impartial venue to host India’s video games at subsequent 12 months’s ICC Champions Trophy following a standoff between the 2 rivals.
India had refused to journey to event host Pakistan for the eight-team Champions Trophy, amid its safety issues.
Below a hybrid mannequin, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed on Thursday that each one of India’s video games might be at a impartial venue, together with if the group reaches the semifinals and ultimate.
“UAE was finalized because the venue after PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi met with the Emirates Cricket Board chairman Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan,” PCB spokesman Amir Mir mentioned in an announcement on Sunday.
Mir mentioned the PCB has “knowledgeable the ICC” concerning the choice. The PCB assertion didn’t verify the place the video games would happen within the UAE, with Dubai thought of the likeliest venue.
Pakistan won’t play in India in ICC occasions within the 2024-27 cycle. Pakistan can even go to a impartial venue when India hosts the 2025 Girls’s World Cup and co-hosts the 2026 males’s T20 World Cup with Sri Lanka.
India has three group-stage video games within the 2025 Champions Trophy, together with one in opposition to Pakistan. Relying on India’s progress on the event, the UAE can even host one of many semifinals and the ultimate.
The newest assertion paves the way in which for the ICC to announce the schedule of the February-March event within the coming days.
Political tensions between Pakistan and India have prevented their groups from touring one another’s nation since 2012, when Pakistan went to India for a bilateral one-day worldwide collection.
Each groups face one another commonly in ICC tournaments — Pakistan went to India final 12 months for the lads’s World Cup. However earlier than the World Cup, India refused to journey to Pakistan for the Asia Cup and performed all of its video games in Sri Lanka.