The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) vice president Rajeev Shukla opened up on India's participation in the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025 which will be hosted by Pakistan next year. The Indian cricket board is yet to take a call on whether the Rohit Sharma-led side travel to the neighbouring nation for the marquee event. Rajeev said that the government will decide India's take for the multinational tournament.
Pakistan are scheduled to host the prestigious ICC ODI tournament from February 19 to March 9. India centric matches to be reportedly played in Lahore because of players safety.
"No decision has been taken (yet). But our policy is that for international tours, we always seek the permission of the government. It's up to the government to decide whether our team should go to any country or our team should not go to any country," Shukla told reporters here.
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"In this case (also), whatever the government will decide, we will abide by that," he added.
Shukla was talking to the media on the sidelines of the ongoing second Test between India and Bangladesh.
India and Pakistan only play each other in ICC events. India have not travelled to Pakistan for bilateral cricket since 2008 due to the Mumbai terror attacks in which over 150 people were killed. Pakistan were in India for the ODI World Cup last year after a gap of seven years. Earlier, Pakistan were the host of Asia Cup 2023 but BCCI denied sending the team to the neighbouring nation citing players safety.
After BCCI's strong take, the tournament was played in hybrid mode where Sri Lanka where the co-host and all India-centric matches were played in the island nation.
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