The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reportedly rejected the hybrid model for the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025 which is scheduled to take place next year. PCB conveyed their message to the cricketing governing body International Cricket Council (ICC) that they won’t accept a hybrid model for the marquee event just a day before ICC's crucial board meeting to finalise the schedule of the tournament.
ICC is scheduled to hold a board meeting on November 28 with the cricket boards.
“I can confirm that PCB has a few hours back told the ICC that a Hybrid Model is not acceptable to them," news agency PTI quoted a source as saying.
The source further stated that PCB has told ICC that they will accept the Hybrid Model if it is followed for every global India till 2031.
“I can confirm initially the PCB had looked at the possibility of a Hybrid model on the condition that if India can’t play in Pakistan, then in future there would be Hybrid models in all ICC events in India right until 2031 (ODI World Cup in India and Bangladesh) as Pakistan would not go and play in India," the source said.
PCB also asked ICC if BCCI has provided any letter from their government that they are not giving clearance to the Indian men’s cricket team to travel to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy.
“Under ICC regulations if any team says its government is not allowing it to play in another nation on whatever grounds that board has to submit their government’s directives in writing which we have not seen so far," the source said.
India haven’t toured Pakistan since the Mumbai terror attack in 2008. On the other hand, Pakistan featured in India in 2023 during the ODI World Cup where the Babar Azam-led side got eliminated after group stage clash.
Earlier, there were reports that the whole Champions Trophy 2025 will be played outside Pakistan as they are currently facing a massive political crisis in Islamabad.
