Will all teams be ready to go to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy? ICC gave this answer

After handing over the 2025 Champions Trophy venue to Pakistan, the International Cricket Council is confident that teams will no longer have trouble traveling to Pakistan for the world tournament, despite objections to playing there for more than a decade.

Last week, the ICC granted Pakistan the right to host the 2025 Champions Trophy. This will mark the return of the great tournament in Pakistan after more than two decades. The last time Pakistan hosted an ICC tournament on its territory was the 1996 World Cup. India and Sri Lanka were also co-hosts of that World Cup.

Pakistan has been unable to host many international teams since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore in 2009. ICC President Greg Barkley said during the ‘Media Roundtable’ in response to a question from the PTI-language news agency, the answer is yes, absolutely yes (teams will travel) according to what we are seeing so far.

Barkley further said that the ICC cricket event will return to Pakistan after many years. All of this has gone off without a hitch except what happened in the last few weeks. In September this year, New Zealand and England withdrew from the bilateral series to be played on the Pakistan tour due to security concerns.

Barkley insisted that if the ICC believes that Pakistan will not be able to organize it successfully, then it does not give it the right to host it. “If we had doubts about the organization of Pakistan, we would not have given it the right to organize this event,” he said.

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India’s participation in the tournament remains a question, as no bilateral cricket has been held between the two neighboring countries since 2012 due to diplomatic tensions following the terrorist attacks in India.

Sports Minister Anurag Thakur had said last week that a decision would be made on India’s participation in the Champions Trophy in due course as there are still security concerns for international teams to tour the neighboring country. Describing it as a challenging subject, Barkley expressed hope that the relationship between the two countries can be improved through cricket.

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