With the Champions Trophy 2025 months away, a high official of the Board for Cricket Management in India (BCCI) has opened up on the prospects of the Indian cricket group’s go to to Pakistan for the mega occasion.
BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla has linked the group’s journey to Pakistan to the Indian authorities’s permission.
“No choice has been taken [yet]. However our coverage is that for worldwide excursions, we all the time search the permission of the federal government. It is as much as the federal government to resolve whether or not our group ought to go to any nation or our group shouldn’t go to any nation,” stated the BCCI official whereas talking to the Indian media.
“On this case [also], no matter the federal government will resolve, we’ll abide by that,” Shukla added.
His remarks come as Pakistan is about to host the distinguished match in February subsequent yr, nonetheless, India’s participation stays shrouded in ambiguity.
It’s to be famous that the Males in Blue haven’t travelled to Pakistan since 2008 and each the historic rivals haven’t had any bilateral sequence since 2012-13.
The upcoming match is about to characteristic eight elite groups together with India, Australia, New Zealand, England, South Africa, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, primarily based on their performances within the 2023 ODI World Cup.
Apart from India, all seven groups that can take part within the Champions Trophy have already performed in Pakistan and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) believes that India has no sturdy purpose to not come right here.
Three venues — Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore — will host the matches of eight groups and in line with PCB’s proposed schedule to ICC, all of India’s matches will happen in Lahore.
