The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be played today between two big rival teams India and Pakistan. The match will begin at 2:30 pm at Dubai International Stadium.
Both teams now face each other in the ICC and ACC tournament. In such a case, the team will face each other after 259 days. The last time they faced each other during the T20 World Cup on June 9, 2024. At the same time, in the ODI format, the two clashed during the ODI World Cup on 14 October 2023.
India is not going to Pakistan after a terrorist attack in Mumbai The Indian team has not traveled to Pakistan since 2007-08. After the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, the Government of India declined to allow cricket in Pakistan. Since then both teams play only in the ICC and ACC tournament. Since 2013, both teams have played 11 ODIs and 8 T20 matches in neutral places. In 2009, terrorists also attacked the Sri Lankan team in Pakistan.
India's plateau at ICC events India has dominated Pakistan in the ICC tournament. Despite three decades of ODI World Cup, Pakistan has not yet defeated India. India is also leading in the T20 World Cup, in which the team has won 7 out of eight matches. His most memorable victory came in 2007, when the team won the title by beating Pakistan in the final.
However, the story of the Champions Trophy has been slightly different, with Pakistan won three of their five matches. This includes his brilliant victory in the 2017 final.
Pakistan's team came to India for the one-day World Cup The Pakistan team came to India in 2023 to play the ODI World Cup. The match between India and Pakistan was played in Ahmedabad on October 14. The Indian team won the match by 7 wickets. Captain Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer scored half a century. Jasprit Bumrah became the player of the match. He took 2 wickets for 19 runs. In this match, both teams clashed against each other for the last time in the ODI format.
- Team India last traveled to Pakistan in 2008: Team India last traveled to Pakistan in 2008. The Indian team won the 3-Test series 1-0. There were 2 matches of this series.
- Pakistan came to India to play a bilateral series in 2013: Pakistan last visited India in 2012-13. There were 3 ODIs and 2 T20 match bilateral series on that tour. Pakistan won the ODI series 2-1, while the T20 series was 1-1.
Since there is no bilateral series, the ICC tournament becomes heavier The Indo-Pakistan match has been playing in the ICC tournament since 1992. But, the ICC has started the Indo-Pakistan match in every tournament from the 2013 ODI World Cup. Bad relations between the two countries have played a major role in this. Since 2013, due to deteriorating political relations, the bilateral series between the two countries has stopped. Now the match is only possible in the ICC tournament.
The ICC took advantage of this. The ICC also accepts this on the record. Prior to the 2013 Champions Trophy, whenever India-Pakistan matched in the ICC tournament, coincidence played a major role. In this, both ODIs and T-20 World Cups collided 7 times. Of these, 6 times the knockout round or the second round confronted each other. Only once, in the T20 World Cup of 2007, the match was held at the group stage.
Then the team was ranked in grouping on the basis of ranking and India and Pakistan came to the same group with coincidence. After the bilateral series closed between the two countries in 2013, the ICC decided that every tournament will now have a match between India and Pakistan, so that the hype can be avoided.
See top players from India and Pakistan in the following graphic …
In the last final, Pakistan beat India by 180 runs In the last Champions Trophy final in 2017, the Indian team suffered a huge margin of 180 runs against Pakistan. In the match played at Oval, London, India won the toss and decided to bowl first. Pakistan scored 338 for 4 in 50 overs. In reply, the Indian team was all out for 158 in 30.3 overs. In this match, Fakhr Zaman from Pakistan scored 114 off 106 balls. It was declared Player of the Match. However, Zaman is out of the tournament after being injured in the first match against New Zealand.
This photo of the Pakistan team is in 2017, when the team won the Champions Trophy title.
The last time the T20 World Cup faced each other The team from India and Pakistan lasted for the last time in the T20 World Cup of the 2024. India won by six runs against Pakistan at the NASA County International Cricket Stadium in New York. Pakistan won the toss and invited the Indian team to bat first. With the help of Rishabh Pant's 42 -run innings, India scored 119 for 10 in 19 overs. In reply, Pakistan was able to make only 113 runs in 20 overs, losing 7 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah became the player of the match.
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