Champions Trophy 2025: PCB accepts hybrid model, wants similar provisions

Ahead of the Champions Trophy 2025 the Pakistan Cricket Board PCB has accepted to practice hybrid model but has also put a condition to allow them to play the matches under the hybrid model as well whenever a global tournament is held in India according to ESPNCricinfoThough the discussions on the matter are ongoing as per ESPNCricinfo PCB put forward their proposal during the weekends in meetings with ICC and the Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI in DubaiPCB was seeking a longterm agreement with the provisions of their team playing outside India during the ICC events However it is yet to be decided if such provisions are for the next three years or till 2031 which will mark the end of the current rights cycleTill 2031 India is supposed to host three mens tournaments including the 2026 T20 World Cup with Sri Lanka the 2029 Champions Trophy and the 2031 Cricket World Cup with BangladeshIn womens cricket India will host the ODI World Cup next yearAlso ReadManjrekar backs KL Rahul to retain opening slot in second BGT TestThe next Asia Cup scheduled for October 2025 is also scheduled to be held in IndiaPreviously on Sunday PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi said We will do whats best for cricket It is definitely not a hybrid formula but if a new formula is formed it will be an equal one Naqvi told reporters as quoted from a video posted by PCB media on XA onesided arrangement is no longer acceptable It cannot be the case that we continue to go to India but they do not visit Pakistan Whatever happens must be on the basis of equality he addedSo far BCCI has stayed tightlipped and there are indications that it would not agree to a hybrid model for the tournaments hosted by them The ICC is yet to think about the proposal sent by the PCB before taking the final call for the Champions Trophy 2025Both BCCI and PCB will require the final decision to be ratified by their countrys governments ICC has tentatively pencilled on December 5 as a meeting date as per ESPNCricinfoAhead of the Champions Trophy 2025 options stay the same either it will take place with India playing their games outside Pakistan under a hybrid model the whole tournament will take place in another country or the tournament will go ahead without IndiaDue to tense political relations between India and Pakistan the Men in Blue have not toured Pakistan since 2008 The two archrivals last played a bilateral series in 201213 in India comprising whiteball matches After that India and Pakistan have primarily faced each other in ICC tournaments and Asia CupsOn Friday the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal cited BCCIs statement about security concerns During the press briefing Jaiswal stated that it is unlikely that the Indian team would cross the border to play in PakistanNotably Pakistan has travelled to India for the 2016 World Cup and the 2023 ODI World Cup Naqvi stressed that both nations should be treated equally under the same rulesThis is not acceptable that onesided things happen Every time Pakistan cannot play in India we comply Both nations must be treated equally under the same rules Naqvi assertedNo statement has been issued on the matter of Champions Trophy 2025 by BCCI PCB also said that it has not received any official explanation regarding Indias inability to travel to PakistanSince the last ICC meeting a massive change has taken place in ICC with former BCCI secretary Jay Shah taking over as the ICC Chair on December 1There are only 77 days left for the tournament to start and the schedule has not been out yet The ticketing process for the tournament has not been announced either which would help fans to make travel arrangements for the eightteam event The tournament will kickstart on February 19 and go on till March 9With ANI Inputs