PAK Board's letter to BCCI: Said- Team India can return home from Lahore after playing every match i

This is the first time since the ODI World Cup 1996 that Pakistan has been given the hosting rights of an ICC event.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has given a proposal to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) regarding the Champions Trophy 2025. According to Cricbuzz, the PCB has said that Team India can return to India after playing every match and the Pakistani board will help them in this.

The report said that the PCB has recently written a letter to the BCCI. It said that if the Indian team does not want to stay in Pakistan due to security reasons and wants to return to Chandigarh or New Delhi after every match, then the board will help them. A PCB official has confirmed this proposal. The reason for giving this offer is the one-week gap between India's last 2 matches.

According to reports, during the recent visit of India's Foreign Minister S Jaishankar to Pakistan, there was a discussion on the Indian team's visit to Pakistan. This issue was raised several times during the talks between Jaishankar and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar. After this visit, the hopes of PCB have been raised, although no official statement has been issued on this yet.

Pakistan came to India to play ODI World Cup last year

Pakistan team came to India to play ODI World Cup last year. Then the match was played between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad on 14 October. The Indian team won this match by 7 wickets.

Captain Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer scored fifties. Jasprit Bumrah became the Player of the Match. He took 2 wickets for 19 runs.

Bilateral series between India and Pakistan

Pakistan's tour of India Pakistani last visited India in 2012-13. In that tour, a bilateral series of 3 ODIs and 2 T20 matches was played. Pakistan won the ODI series 2-1, while the T20 series was tied 1-1.

India's tour of Pakistan Team India last visited Pakistan in 2008. The Indian team won that series of 3 Test matches 1-0. 2 matches of this series were drawn.

India is not going to Pakistan due to terrorist attack in Mumbai

The Indian team has not toured Pakistan since 2007-08. After the terrorist attack on Mumbai in 2008, the Indian government refused to play cricket in Pakistan. Since then both the teams play only in ICC and ACC tournaments. Since 2013, both the teams have played 13 ODIs and 8 T20 matches at neutral venues.

Pakistan gets the hosting of Champions Trophy 2025

Pakistan has been given the hosting of Champions Trophy 2025. PCB has submitted the draft of the tournament's venue and schedule to ICC. The tournament is to be played in February-March next year. According to the draft, India has been placed in Group A along with Pakistan, Bangladesh and New Zealand. Group B includes Australia, South Africa, England and Afghanistan. According to the schedule, India's three matches are to be held on 20 February (against Bangladesh), 23 February (against Pakistan) and 2 March (against New Zealand). All India's matches can be played in Lahore.

Asia Cup had to be held in Sri Lanka

Last year also, the hosting of Asia Cup was given to Pakistan. Even then, when India did not go there, this tournament was held on 'hybrid model'. India's matches were held in Sri Lanka. In the final match held in Colombo, the Indian team won the championship by defeating Sri Lanka by 10 wickets.

India defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the final of the Asia Cup.

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