🏏 ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Info, Schedule, Venues, Teams and more🏏

🏏 ICC Champions Trophy 2025: 19th February 2025 to 9th March 2025🏏

The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy will be the ninth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy. It will be hosted by Pakistan and United Arab Emirates from 19 February to 9 March 2025 and will be contested by the top eight ranked men's national teams qualified from the 2023 Cricket World Cup. Pakistan are the defending champions, having won the previous edition in 2017.

The ICC Champions Trophy is a quadrennial ODI cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Initially held as a biennial tournament since its inaugural edition in 1998 as ICC Knock Out Trophy, it was rebranded as ICC Champions Trophy in 2002 and has been held as a quadrennial tournament since 2009. In 2016, the ICC cancelled future editions of the Champions Trophy after the 2017 tournament, aiming to have only one major tournament in each format of international cricket. However in November 2021 as part of the 2024-2031 ICC men's hosts cycle, ICC announced that the tournament would return from 2025 onwards.

Host selection

Pakistan was announced as the host of the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy on 16 November 2021 as part of the 2024-2031 ICC men's hosts cycle. It will be the first global tournament to be hosted by Pakistan after 28 years, since the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team. The last major tournament to take place in the country was the 1996 Cricket World Cup which it co-hosted with India and Sri Lanka. UAE was announced as a co-host to host India's matches, due to security issues in Pakistan and the Indian team refusing to travel to Pakistan.

Format

Eight qualified teams divided into two groups of four, will play against the three teams in their respective group – for a total of ten matches – and the top two teams in each group will advance to the knockout stage. The knockout stage will consist of 2 semi-finals and a final. A total of 15 matches will be played over 19 days.

Qualification

Pakistan qualified for the competition automatically as hosts and was joined by seven other highest-ranked teams from the 2023 Cricket World Cup group stage. This was the first time former champions Sri Lanka failed to qualify for the tournament, while Afghanistan will make their debut appearance in the tournament.

Venues:

Karachi: National Stadium

Lahore: Gaddafi Stadium

Rawalpindi: Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium

Dubai: Dubai International Cricket Stadium

Groups and Match Schedule:

Group A: Bangladesh, India, New Zealand and Pakistan
Group B: Afghanistan, Australia, England and South Africa

Wed, 19 Feb '25, 1st Match, Group A (D/N) • Karachi, Pakistan vs New Zealand @ 2:30PM IST

Thu, 20 Feb '25, 2nd Match, Group A (D/N) • Dubai (DICS), Bangladesh vs India @ 2:30PM IST

Fri, 21 Feb '25, 3rd Match, Group B (D/N) • Karachi, Afghanistan vs South Africa @ 2:30PM IST

Sat, 22 Feb '25, 4th Match, Group B (D/N) • Lahore, Australia vs England @ 2:30PM IST

Sun, 23 Feb '25, 5th Match, Group A (D/N) • Dubai (DICS), Pakistan vs India, @ 2:30PM IST

Mon, 24 Feb '25, 6th Match, Group A (D/N) • Rawalpindi, Bangladesh vs New Zealand @ 2:30PM IST

Tue, 25 Feb '25, 7th Match, Group B (D/N) • Rawalpindi, Australia vs South Africa @ 2:30PM IST

Wed, 26 Feb '25, 8th Match, Group B (D/N) • Lahore, Afghanistan vs England @ 2:30PM IST

Thu, 27 Feb '25, 9th Match, Group A (D/N) • Rawalpindi, Pakistan vs Bangladesh @ 2:30PM IST

Fri, 28 Feb '25, 10th Match, Group B (D/N) • Lahore, Afghanistan vs Australia @ 2:30PM IST

Sat, 01 Mar '25, 11th Match, Group B (D/N) • Karachi, England vs South Africa @ 2:30PM IST

Sun, 02 Mar '25, 12th Match, Group A (D/N) • Dubai (DICS), New Zealand vs India @ 2:30PM IST

Tue, 04 Mar '25, 1st Semi-Final (D/N) • Dubai (DICS), TBA vs TBA @ 2:30PM IST

Wed, 05 Mar '25, 2nd Semi-Final (D/N) • Lahore, TBA vs TBA @ 2:30PM IST

Sun, 09 Mar '25, Final (D/N) • , TBD, TBA vs TBA @ 2:30PM IST

Note: If India qualifies for semi finals, that semi final will be held in Dubai and the other semi final will be held in Lahore.

Final will be held in Dubai, only if India qualifies, otherwise it will be held in Lahore

Squads:

Group A

India: Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill (vice-capt), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja

Bangladesh: Nazmul Hossain Shanto (c), Soumya Sarkar, Tanzid Hasan, Tawhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, MD Mahmud Ullah, Jaker Ali Anik, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Parvez Hossai Emon, Nasum Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Nahid Rana

New Zealand: Mitchell Santner (c), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Will O’Rourke, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Ben Sears, Nathan Smith, Kane Williamson, Will Young

Pakistan: Pakistan EXPECTED Squad: Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Shaheen Afridi, Shadab Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Kamran Ghulam, Noman Ali, Sajid Khan, Naseem Shah, Ihsanullah, Mohammad Wasim Jr., Haris Rauf, Agha Salman, Usman Qadir, Tayyab Tahir, and Hasan Ali. [Not Official]

Group B

Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Ikram Alikhil, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, AM Ghazanfar, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Farid Malik, Naveed Zadran

Reserves: Darwish Rasooli, Nangyal Kharoti, Bilal Sami

England: Jos Buttler (c), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Saqib Mahmood, Phil Salt, Mark Wood

Australia: Steven Smith (C), Alex Carey, Nathan Ellis, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Matt Short, Steve Smith, Adam Zampa

South Africa: Temba Bavuma (c), Tony de Zorzi, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Wiaan Mulder, Lungi Ngidi, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Rassie van der Dussen

Thank you, Raji, for sharing all the details regarding the schedule here.

Previous Winners:

1998 - South Africa

2000 - New Zealand

2002 - Indian and Sri Lanka (Joint winners)

2004 - West Indies

2006 - Australia

2009 - Australia

2013 - India

2017 - Pakistan

Thank you 😊 🙏...waiting for the series 😀 🙂

I’m super excited about this!

I'm really scared for India