Based on Bharat refusing to play games in Pakistan, the arena cricketing frame pronounces ICC occasions hosted in both nation to be performed at impartial venues till 2027.
Bharat will play games after time’s Champions Trophy fits on impartial field next refusing to talk over with Pakistan, hosts and archrivals, the Global Cricket Council (ICC) mentioned following weeks of wrangling.
In go back, Pakistan will even play games then ICC tournaments hosted by way of Bharat in alternative international locations, which can be but to be made up our minds.
“India and Pakistan matches hosted by either country at ICC Events during the 2024-2027 rights cycle will be played at a neutral venue, the ICC Board confirmed,” mentioned a remark exempt by way of the frame on Thursday.
“This will apply to the upcoming ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025.”
The pledge will lengthen to the ICC Ladies’s Cricket Global Cup 2025 hosted by way of Bharat, and the ICC Males’s T20 Global Cup 2026 hosted by way of Bharat and Sri Lanka, the remark added.
The announcement ended a monthlong standoff over the 2025 Champions Trophy next Bharat informed the ICC it will no longer ship its group to Pakistan on account of safety fears and political pressure. The event will probably be held in Pakistan from February 19 till March 9, 2025.
“The match schedule for the men’s Champions Trophy 2025 will be confirmed in the coming days,” the ICC mentioned.
Staff Bharat has no longer visited Pakistan since 2008, and the competitors play games each and every alternative handiest at multi-team occasions.
They terminating performed a bilateral sequence in December 2012 and January 2013 when Pakistan toured Bharat for a white ball sequence. Bharat terminating visited Pakistan for a bilateral constancy in early 2006.
The Pakistan group travelled to Bharat for the ICC Cricket Global Cup in October-November 2023 and performed all their fits within the nation.
The Champions Trophy would be the first ICC tournament hosted by way of Pakistan because it shared the 1996 Global Cup with Bharat and Sri Lanka.
Pakistan additionally hosted the Asia Cup terminating time, however the winners, Bharat, performed all their fits in Sri Lanka beneath a “hybrid model”.
On the moment, Bharat mentioned they’d no longer won permission from their executive to excursion Pakistan.
Pakistan received the terminating ICC Champions Trophy in 2017, thrashing Bharat within the ultimate by way of 180 runs in London, United Kingdom.