ICC Champions Trophy 2025 possible schedule revealed

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 possible schedule revealed

The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be hosted in Pakistan from February 19 to March 9, featuring the top eight ODI teams - Pakistan, Australia, India, New Zealand, Bangladesh, South Africa, Afghanistan, and England and matches will be held in Lahore, Karachi, and Rawalpindi, starting with Pakistan vs. New Zealand encounter.

ICC canceled the ICC Champions Trophy after the 2017 tournament, but now the Champions Trophy will be back in 2025. In 2021, ICC announced the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the eight-team ranked top in the men’s international One Day International (ODI) rankings will participate in the tournament.

According to the announcement, Pakistan will host the ninth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy from February 19 to March 9, 2025 as they are the defending champions of the 2017 Champions Trophy.

The Champions Trophy 2025 will be the first international cricket event to be hosted by Pakistan solely. The last international cricket tournament Pakistan co-hosted was the 1996 Cricket World Cup with Sri Lanka and India. The Pakistan Cricket Board has released the schedule and groups of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.

The eight teams that qualified for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 based on the ODI rankings are: Pakistan, Australia, India, New Zealand, Bangladesh, South Africa, Afghanistan, England

The 50-over ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be held in groups first followed by the semi-final and final. The Pakistan Board has released the Groups for the tournament and as per the announcement, India and Pakistan are in the same group.

Here’s the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 divided Groups and teams for the tournament:

Group A: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, New Zealand

Group B: Australia, Afghanistan, England, South Africa

The recent schedule released by Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 has mainly three venues Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi. The matches will begin on 19 February 2024, with the first match between the host team and New Zealand at Karachi.

According to officials, the PCB will reschedule the semi-final match to Lahore if India reaches the semi-final stage. The board has kept all the Indian team matches in Lahore only to minimize their travel in the country due to the strained bilateral relations between both countries.

The long-lasting strained bilateral relationships between India and Pakistan have raised speculations about the Indian cricket team traveling to Pakistan. The Indian team has not played any cricket tournament in Pakistan since 2008’s Asia Cup.

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Schedule and Venue

Date      Match Between               Venue

19 February 2025             NZ vs PAK            Karachi

20 February 2025             BAN vs IND Lahore

21 February 2025             AFG Vs SA           Karachi

22 February 2025             AUS vs ENG        Lahore

23 February 2025             NZ vs IND            Rawalpindi

24 February 2025             PAK vs BAN       Lahore

25 February 2025             AFG vs ENG        Lahore

26 February 2025             AUS vs SA            Rawalpindi

27 February 2025             BANG vs NZ        Lahore

28 February 2025             AFG vs AUS         Rawalpindi

1 March 2025     PAK vs IND          Lahore

2 March 2025     SA vs ENG           Rawalpindi

5 March 2025     I Semi-final         Karachi

6 March 2025     II Semi-Final       Rawalpindi

9 March 2025     Final      Lahore