India to Host Three Major Cricket Tourneys in 2024-31 Cycle, Pakistan Gets 2025 Champions Trophy
NEW DELHI, Nov 16: Pakistan has been named as the host for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy while India gets 2026 T20 World Cup jointly with Sri Lanka, 2029 Champions Trophy and the 2031 World Cup jointly with Bangladesh, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Tuesday.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Rameez Raja expressing his gratitude to the ICC for choosing Pakistan as the host for the 2025 tournament, said it would provide a great fillip to Pakistani cricket and the home crowd. This will also be the first major global cricket tournament played in Pakistan since 1996.
Raja tweeted, “It’s a matter of great pride and delight that Pakistan will be hosting ICC Champions Trophy 2025. This great news will surely excite millions of Pakistani fans, expats and world fans to see great teams and players in action and will allow the world to sample our hospitality.”
“I am pleased no-end with the ICC’s decision to select Pakistan as a host nation for one of their elite tournaments,” he said.
The ICC gave the road-map of all the upcoming white-ball cricket tournaments for the 2024-2031 cycle.
In June 2024, the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will go somewhere it has never been before, with USA hosting the event alongside the West Indies, which staged the tournament in 2010.”
Eight months later, in February 2025, Pakistan will host the Men’s Champions Trophy. It will be the first major global cricket tournament played in Pakistan since 1996 when it hosted the Men’s Cricket World Cup alongside India and Sri Lanka.
In 2026, India and Sri Lanka will host the Men’s T20 World Cup, before another first-time major event host in 2027.”
In October/November 2027, Namibia will host the Men’s Cricket World Cup for the first time alongside Zimbabwe and South Africa. South Africa and Zimbabwe last staged the event in 2003.
In October 2028 the T20 World Cup will be played in Australia and New Zealand and 12 months later India will host the Champions Trophy.
In 2030, England will share T20 World Cup hosting duties with Ireland and Scotland. It will be the first time since 1999 that Ireland and Scotland have hosted a major global cricket event.
The final scheduled event, in October/November 2031, will be the Men’s Cricket World Cup, played in India and Bangladesh.
Host nations for ICC men’s tournament from 2024-2031
2024 T20 World Cup – USA and West Indies
2025 Champions Trophy – Pakistan
2026 T20 World Cup – India and Sri Lanka
2027 World Cup – South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia
2028 T20 World Cup – Australia and New Zealand
2029 Champions Trophy – India
2030 T20 World Cup – England, Ireland and Scotland
2031 World Cup – India and Bangladesh
(Manas Dasgupta)
