The Indian team will not travel to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 and will ask the International Cricket Council to hold its matches in Sri Lanka or Dubai, a BCCI source told to a news agency. The ICC Champions Trophy will be held next year from February to March 2025 in Pakistan. Since 2008's Asia Cup, India has not played any cricket tournaments in Pakistan due to tense relationships between both nations. Both nations have only clashed at ICC tournaments and the Asia Cup.

With the Indian Cricket team unlikely to travel to Pakistan for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy, the BCCI will ask the ICC to consider the tournament to be held in a hybrid model, similar to the 2023 Asia Cup.

The eight-team ICC event is scheduled to be played from February 19 to March 9 next year, with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) furnishing its draft for the tournament. Seven matches have been allotted to Lahore, five to Rawalpindi, and three to Karachi. As proposed by the PCB, the high-voltage match between India and Pakistan will take place at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on March 1.

India hasn’t traveled to Pakistan since 2008. In the last 16 years, only once have these two teams played a bilateral series against each other, which was way back in 2012–13.

India was supposed to travel to Pakistan last year to take part in the Asia Cup, but due to tensions between the two nations, the tournament was moved out of Pakistan, and India’s matches, including the final, were played in Sri Lanka.

However, despite India’s decision to skip the Pakistan tour, Pakistan traveled to India to take part in the ICC Men’s ODI World Cup 2023 and played matches in Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata.

As per the available information, it is highly unlikely that the Indian team will travel to Pakistan. Ultimately, the decision rests with the Indian government. However, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) plans to raise this issue at the upcoming ICC meeting in Sri Lanka this month,” a source was quoted as saying.

The last edition of the ICC Champions Trophy was played in England (2017), where in the final, Sarfaraz Ahmed-led Pakistan defeated Virat Kohli’s India by 180 runs.