Pakistan has finalized the budget for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in consultation with the ICC.
ICC Chief Finance Officer Ankar Khanna and Pakistan Cricket Board CFO Javed Murtaza have prepared the budget.
The annual meetings of the ICC begin in Colombo, Sri Lanka from July 19, with PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi and chief executive officer Salman Naseer leaving on July 18 to represent Pakistan.
According to the sources, the budget of the ICC Champions Trophy will be approved on July 22nd in the meeting held in Colombo, while this budget prepared in consultation with ICC and PCB will be presented for approval on July 22nd.
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On this day, only the approval of the budget is part of the agenda, no other formula including the hybrid model has been placed in the agenda, along with it no additional budget or emergency budget will be discussed.
The schedule of the T20 and ODI series between Pakistan and New Zealand has been released, Cricket New Zealand has also confirmed to play the Champions Trophy in Pakistan and the 3-nation tournament in Multan in its season schedule.
The Pakistan cricket team will visit New Zealand for the white ball series in March next year, where they will play 5 T20Is and 3 ODIs once morest the Kiwis.
The New Zealand Cricket Board has released the schedule of the white ball series once morest Pakistan, while the white ball series between the two teams will start with the T20 format.
The white ball series between Pakistan and New Zealand will be played from March 16 to April 5, 2025. The first T20 of the series will be played in Christchurch on March 16 and the second in Dunedin on March 18.
Teams of New Zealand and South Africa are ready to come to Pakistan for the tri-nation series
Apart from this, the third T20I will be played in Auckland on March 21, the fourth in Tauranga on March 23, and the fifth T20I in Wellington on March 26.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi made major decisions for the improvement of national cricket and team performance and made it mandatory for every player to play domestic cricket and fitness test every 3 months. He said that discipline Players who do not comply will not have a place in the team.
Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Mohsin Naqvi presided over a 3-hour long meeting, in which various suggestions for the improvement of cricket were reviewed, in which coaches Gary Kirsten, Jason Gillespie, Azhar Mehmood, Chief Operating Officer PCB Salman Naseer, The selection committee members attended.
Chairman PCB also included national test team head coach Jason Gillespie and white ball head coach Gary Kirsten in the selection committee while the selection committee will finalize the method of playing domestic cricket.
PCB has decided not to reduce the central contract amount of the national players for now, the period of the central contract will be for one year, the inclusion of players in different categories of the central contract will be according to the prescribed procedure.
Decision to limit NOC for national cricketers playing all three formats
Pakistan Cricket Board will explain the technical procedure for issuance of NOCs for playing foreign leagues, NOCs will be issued to the players who meet the procedure.
Apart from this, a fitness test will be mandatory for every player following 3 months, it will be mandatory for every player to play domestic cricket, the performance and tricks of the players will be evaluated every year, while the players who meet the fitness and performance criteria There will be an opportunity to come forward and there will be no place for players who do not meet the criteria.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will not deviate from the position of holding all the matches of the Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan and the board will maintain the same position, while if the Indian team does not come, then Pakistan will not be India for the 2026 T20 World Cup. will go
The Champions Trophy 2025 is hosted by Pakistan, but these days the news of Plan B and Hybrid Venue is coming out that there will be a discussion in this regard in the annual meeting of ICC.
The annual meeting of ICC is scheduled from July 19 to 22 in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, in which Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi is also expected to attend.
Sources say that Pakistan will not deviate from the position of holding all the Champions Trophy matches in Pakistan, but will maintain the position of ‘Pakistan’s event in Pakistan’.
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PCB is busy arranging the matches of all 8 teams at 3 venues, huge expenses are being spent on upgrading the stadiums for the Champions Trophy, hybrid and plan B are being talked regarding, PCB has not stopped its arrangements. will