ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Teams, fixtures, schedule, venues, reside on Sky Sports activities

The schedule for the ICC Champions Trophy has been introduced forward of the match’s long-awaited return in 2025.

The 50-over competitors returns to the worldwide calendar for the primary time since 2017, with Pakistan staging a worldwide cricket occasion for the primary time since co-hosting the 1996 World Cup with India and Sri Lanka.

The 2025 match is about to reflect the format utilized in 2017, with eight sides break up into two teams of 4. Every group performs the others of their pool as soon as, after which the highest two advance to the semi-finals.

The semi-final winners will then contest the ultimate on March 9 in Lahore, the place they may bid to get their palms on the Champions Trophy and an iconic white jacket.

Defending champions and hosts Pakistan are in Group A alongside Bangladesh, India and New Zealand, who they play within the opening recreation of the match in Karachi on February 19.

Group B is comprised of Afghanistan, Australia, England and South Africa, with England’s first match seeing them face outdated rivals Australia in Lahore on February 22 forward of an unmissable contest between Pakistan and India on February 23 in Dubai.

The place are matches being performed?

Stadiums in Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi will host matches in Pakistan, with matches involving India will probably be held in Dubai.

The impartial venue within the United Arab Emirates was chosen after the ICC confirmed all matches between Pakistan and India in ICC tournaments, each women and men’s and together with subsequent 12 months’s Girls’s World Cup, will probably be performed at impartial venues up till a minimum of 2027.

Political tensions between the 2 nations have led to strained sporting relations and India, cricket’s richest and strongest nation, haven’t performed a recreation in Pakistan because the 2008 Asia Cup.

Because of this, India will play in semi-final 1 in Dubai in the event that they qualify, with Pakistan assigned semi-final 2 in Lahore in the event that they progress. The ultimate, which is scheduled to happen in Lahore on March 9, may even be moved to the UAE if India qualify.

What’s the ICC Champions Trophy?

A mini-50-over World Cup, mainly.

Whereas the Phrase Cup is arguably bloated – the 2023 version took over six weeks to finish – the Champions Trophy is brief and sharp, achieved and dusted in round two weeks.

Pakistan are the defending champions having crushed nice rivals India within the closing at The Kia Oval six years in the past, whereas India and Australia have gained essentially the most titles with two every.

ICC Champions Trophy schedule

Group A

Feb 19: Pakistan v New Zealand (Karachi)
Feb 20: Bangladesh v India (Dubai)
Feb 23: Pakistan v India (Dubai)
Feb 24: Bangladesh v New Zealand (Rawalpindi)
Feb 27: Pakistan v Bangladesh (Rawalpindi)
Mar 2: New Zealand v India (Dubai)

Group B

Feb 21: Afghanistan v South Africa (Karachi)
Feb 22: Australia v England (Lahore)
Feb 25: Australia v South Africa (Rawalpindi)
Feb 26: Afghanistan v England (Lahore)
Feb 28: Afghanistan v Australia (Lahore)
Mar 1: South Africa v England (Karachi)

Semi-finals

Mar 4: Semi-final 1, A1 v B2 (Dubai)
Mar 5: Semi-final 2, A2 v B1 (Lahore)

Last

Mar 9: Winner of semi-final 1 v Winner of semi-final 2 (Lahore)

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