The venue change follows weeks of wrangling after India refused to go to ICC match hosts Pakistan for his or her matches.
India will play their Champions Trophy matches within the United Arab Emirates subsequent yr after hosts Pakistan chosen the Gulf nation as a impartial venue for his or her rivals, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has stated.
Because of soured political relations, the Indian staff has not visited Pakistan since 2008 and the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has determined to not ship its staff to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy citing authorities recommendation.
The 2 international locations play one another solely at multi-team tournaments, with Pakistan visiting India for the 50-over ICC World Cup final yr.
“The Pakistan Cricket Board has chosen the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because the impartial venue,” PCB spokesperson Amir Mir stated through e mail on Sunday.
The eight-team Champions Trophy might be held in February and March subsequent yr.
The Worldwide Cricket Council stated final week that matches between India and Pakistan in tournaments that it organised in both nation can be performed at impartial venues.
The association applies to the lads’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan and the ladies’s one-day worldwide (ODI) World Cup in India subsequent yr.
It would even be in place for the lads’s Twenty20 World Cup in 2026, which India will co-host with Sri Lanka and the ladies’s T20 World Cup in 2028 in Pakistan.
The Champions Trophy would be the first ICC occasion hosted by Pakistan because it shared the 1996 World Cup with India and Sri Lanka.