So ICC Champion Trophy 2025 will start, the tournament will start on 19 February 2025 and will be played in Pakistan and UAE till 9 March 2025. So what is the complete schedule of this Champions Trophy 2025, what is its format, which groups are there, which teams are in which group, when, where, in which stadium, and which match will start, we are going to tell and show you all the details in this video, so first of all let us tell you that a total of eight teams are participating in Champion Trophy 2025, all eight teams have been divided into two different groups, there are four teams in Group A, there are four teams in Group B. Group A has Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, and Pakistan, while Group B has Afghanistan, Australia, England and South Africa. Now in the league stage, a team will play one match each with the remaining three teams of its group, that is, all eight teams will have to play three matches each in the group stage, and the top two teams from both the groups will qualify directly for the semi-finals. Now a total of 15 matches will be played between all these eight teams in this Champions Trophy 2025 which will be played in One Day format. This tournament is going to be 50-50 overs in ODI format. Now a total of 15 matches will be played in this Champions Trophy. All 15 matches are going to start from 2:30 PM according to Indian time i.e. 2:30 PM. Now the complete schedule and program of ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is like this where host Pakistan will play the opening match of Champions Trophy 2025. So the first match of Champions Trophy 2025 will be played on Wednesday, 19 February 2025 at the National Stadium in Karachi between Pakistan vs New Zealand, while the second match will be played on Thursday, 20 February 2025 at the Dubai International Stadium in Dubai between Bangladesh vs India, while the third match of Champions Trophy will be played on Friday, 21 February 2025 at the National Stadium in Karachi between Afghanistan vs South Africa, while the fourth match will be played on Friday, 21 February 2025 at the National Stadium in Karachi between Afghanistan vs South Africa, while the fourth match will be played on Wednesday, 19 February 2025 at the National Stadium in Karachi between Pakistan vs New Zealand The match will be played on Saturday, 22 February 2025 at Qaza Stadium in Lahore between Australia vs England, while the fifth match of the Champions Trophy will be played on Sunday, 23 February 2025 at Dubai International Stadium in Dubai between Pakistan vs India, while the sixth match of the Champions Trophy will be played on Monday, 24 February 2025 at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi between Bangladesh vs New Zealand, while the seventh match of the Champions Trophy will be played on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium between Australia vs South Africa, while the eighth match of the Champions Trophy will be played on Wednesday, 26 February 2025 at Qaza Stadium in Lahore between Afghanistan vs England, while the ninth match of the Champions Trophy will be played on Thursday, 27 February 2025 at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium between Pakistan vs Bangladesh, while the 10th match of the Champions Trophy will be played on Friday, 28 February 2025 at Khaza Stadium in Lahore between Afghanistan vs England vs Australia, while the last match of Champions Trophy will be played on 1st March 2025 Saturday at Karachi National Stadium between South Africa vs England, while the brava match of Champions Trophy will be played on 2nd March 2025 Sunday at Dubai International Cricket Stadium between India vs New Zealand, so here is the complete schedule of league stage from here
The top two teams of Group A and the top two teams from Group B, these four teams will qualify for the semi-finals, The semi-final match will be played between four teams, the team winning the first semi-final match and the second semi-final match will play the final match, so the schedule of knockout matches is something like this where the first semi-final match will be played on 4th March 2025 Tuesday at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, the second semi-final match will be played on 5th March 2025 Wednesday at Lahore Kazfa, while the final grand match will be between the team winning the first semi-final match and the second semi-final match
on 9th March 2025 Sunday, if Team India reaches the final, then the final match will also be played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, but if Team India does not reach the final, then the team winning the first semi-final match and the second semi-final match will play the final match at Lahore, Pakistan The final match will be played at the Cajafi Stadium
Where to watch Champions Trophy 2025 for free| On which OTT will it be live streaming| Jio Cinema| Hotstar
Champions Trophy 2025: Will you be able to watch the matches of this Champions Trophy for free on OTT or will you have to spend money? This question must be in your mind because recently Disney Plus Hotstar and Jio Cinema have been merged and a new OTT platform has come up and the name of this OTT platform is Jio Hostar. There have been many reports that you will have to spend money on IPL. You will get to watch only a few minutes of the IPL for free or after a few seconds you will have to take a basic plan. You will have to loosen your pockets and many other things only then you will be able to watch the matches of IPL. But here we are talking about the Champions Trophy, will you not spend money on the Champions Trophy or not? The matches of Champions Trophy 2025 will come on its OTT, but you will not have to spend money for this, you will not have to loosen your pockets. What has been said for IPL till now, nothing like this will happen for the Champions Trophy. Yes, I am not saying live streaming, no reports are saying this, but these things are being said by the broadcasting team Star Sports itself, which is the channel. There is a broadcaster and on OTT we can watch the matches of the Champions Trophy for free without loosening our pockets. Actually, till now the reports were coming that you will get to watch cricket for free on Jio Hotstar for a few minutes or IPL, so this report has come out but such reports did not come for the Champions Trophy. You will get to watch the Champions Trophy for free but if we talk about IPL, then reports have come out for that that you will have to spend money. There is a three-month plan of Jio Star 2 for I and other sports, which will be available on Jio Hotstar, you will be applicable on two devices. There is also a TV laptop in it, the plan without advertisement is about 49999 i.e. for ₹ 5000000, you can watch it on four devices and a TV laptop, so all these things were for IPL which was of 260 seconds. I was told that you would get to watch 260 seconds for free or after a few minutes you would have to make a plan, and the match would stop but there is nothing like this for the Champions Trophy, you can watch the matches of Champions Trophy for free on Jio You will be able to watch it on Hotstar. You don’t need to make any plans. Just go to your mobile and open this application. Watch the Champions Trophy on the OTT platform
Will the tournament not happen after 2029: There is pressure to hold it in T20 format instead of ODI, and ICC was about to stop it
The Champions Trophy is being held from 19th February. ICC tournament is making a comeback after 8 years. In 2019, the tournament will be played in India itself, but it is unclear whether it will be a 50-over tournament. The viewership of the two formats is continuously decreasing. In the last 10 years, 420 Test matches and 1250 ODI matches were played but there were 268 T20 matches. Whereas from 2005 to 2014, only 412 T20 matches were played while ODIs were 119 more than in the decade. IPL started in 2008. It was the world’s first ICC-authorized franchise tournament. In 2011, Australia started its franchise tournament Big Bash League. In 2012, Bangladesh, in 2013, West Indies, and in 2016, Pakistan also started their franchise tournament. Since 2018, almost every major cricket board has started its franchise tournament. Due to this, it became difficult to get time for ICC tournaments. Viewing has become more important because of them, broadcasters and sponsors are ready to pay huge amounts. A T20 match gets more viewership and advertisements than a whole series of ODIs and Tests. Therefore, broadcasters are pressurizing ICC and other cricket boards to conduct more and more T20 matches. ICC earns from all its tournaments, especially in those tournaments in which India plays a match against Pakistan, and then all the records of earnings and fanfare are broken.
Host Pakistan, venue Dubai and champion India: 0.6 second catch, Varun’s mystery; Why will this Champions Trophy be remembered
Team India has won the Champions Trophy after 12 years.Be it Varun Chakravarthy’s Mistry or Granthi Phillips’ flying catch or the controversy over India playing in the same stadium, let us know some interesting things about the Champions Trophy in today’s Mandi Mein story. The one who started the Champions Trophy is Jagmohan Dalmiya, former President of BCCI and ICC. There were two major objectives of starting it. First, to spread cricket in emerging countries and second, to raise funds for ICC between World Cups. The ICC World Cup, which started in 1975, was played every 4 years. In such a situation, ICC started the Champions Trophy, which was even called the Mini World Cup, which was held every 2 years. However, since 2009, the gap in it is increasing. The Champions Trophy, which started in 1998, has had nine tournaments so far in which India has won three times. This time, i.e. the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy tournament was a unique edition. This tournament was hosted by Pakistan, but BCCI said that Team India will not play any match in Pakistan. Discussions started to hold India’s matches in some other country on a hybrid model. However, the Pakistan Cricket Board ICC President Mohsin Ahmed refused to use the hybrid model. Then on 5 December 2024, an agreement was reached between BCCI and PCB and ICC approved it in which it was decided that India will play all its matches in Dubai. Now know some more time high records made in Champions Trophy. The record of scoring the fastest 100 runs is in the name of South Africa’s batsman David Miller. He scored 100 runs in 67 balls against New Zealand on 5 March 2025. The highest combined score was scored in the match between England and Australia held in Lahore on 22 February. Both the teams scored 707 runs. The highest runs in the first evening were scored by New Zealand against South Africa in the semi-final held in Lahore on 5 March. The team had given a target of 362 runs. Talking about the top five bottles of 2025 Champions Trophy, New Zealand Ravindra scored 263 runs, India’s Shresth Iyer scored 243 runs, England’s Bank Robbery scored 227 runs, England’s Joe Root scored 225 runs and India’s Virat Kohli scored 218 runs. In the 2025 Champions Trophy, Afghanistan’s Azmatullah Umar and New Zealand’s Black Flip hit the most sixes, both hit 88 sixes, while Ibrahim Jagran, Rossi and Black Flip hit six sixes together. Among the batsmen who hit the most fours is New Zealand’s Rajendra Ravindra, who hit 29 fours, while England’s One Dayer hit 25 fours. Apart from New Zealand, India’s Mohammed Shami and Varun Chakravarthy are among the top bowlers who took the most wickets in the 2025 Champions Trophy. New Zealand had the highest catching efficiency, the team caught catches at 90%, while India caught catches at the rate of 75%, but the host team of the tournament, Pakistan, had the worst performance. Varun Chakravarthy has proved to be the X-factor for India in this tournament. He did not get a chance to play in the first two matches, but after that he took 9 wickets in three matches with an average of 15.1, which is no less than a miracle. In this tournament, two veterans also retired. On March 5, Australian team captain Steve Smith retired from ODIs. And a week after being eliminated from the Champions Trophy, Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur retired. There were a lot of controversies in this entire tournament, whether it was India’s alleged advantage of playing all the matches in one venue or the unique celebration of Pakistani mistress spinner Abrar after dismissing Shubman.
Why is a white blazer given on winning the Champions Trophy?
When Team India defeated New Zealand in the final of the Champions Trophy on Sunday night, apart from the trophy, the white blazer i.e. jacket also attracted a lot of attention. Before the trophy, every player of the winning team was given a tailor-made jacket. The tournament logo was visible on its chest pocket. The team that wins the Champions Trophy is given this jacket, which always remains with them. This is somewhat related to the tradition of the green jacket given in the Golf Masters, which the winner is wearing. In April last year, in the Masters 2024, Scottie Chiffler wore the second green jacket in the August Star National. The Chambers Trophy was first played in 1998, but the wide jacket came in the smaller edition of this tournament which was played in South Africa. The Australian team under the captaincy of Ricky Ponting got a jacket for the first time. It also lost to New Zealand in the final. The Indian team had earlier received this jacket in the year 2013 when they defeated England.
What did the former Pakistani cricketer say about PCB’s absence from the stage of the final ceremony?
India has won the Champions Trophy title. In the final match played in Dubai on Sunday, Team India defeated New Zealand by four wickets, but a controversy has arisen over the presentation ceremony that took place after India’s victory. Actually, Pakistan was the host of this tournament, but in the presentation ceremony held after the final match, no official from the Pakistan Cricket Board was seen on the stage. This has also been disliked by many former Pakistani cricketers. Shoaib Akhtar posted a video and expressed surprise on this matter. Pakistan was hosting the Champions Trophy and there was no point in representing Pakistan. Former Pakistani cricketer Wasim Akram said that I have come to know that Chairman Sahab was not well, but the people who came from there are Sumer Ahmed and Usman Wala, but none of them were on the stage. We were the hosts of the Champions Trophy, so why was the person who was representing Chairman Sahab not on the stage? Was he not called on the stage? I don’t know the reason for this, but I definitely found it strange.