The Champions Cup begins from Wednesday after a turbulent accumulation witnessed the championship between Pakistan and Dubai, and England faces calls to boycott their match against Afghanistan. This event, which is considered second after the World Cup in the one -day match, until March 9, is the first world championship for Cricket hosted by Pakistan nearly three decades. However, India’s matches in the United Arab Emirates will play after the financial strength of sport refused to visit its neighbor to long -term political tensions.
The dilemma ended for a month in December when the International Cricket Council said that India will play its games in Dubai.
It raises the possibility of a final occurrence of the eight covers that occur there, and not in Pakistan, if India gets this-a good opportunity since it prefers to raise the cup.
Arch India and Pakistan, who only face international competitions because of politics, collides in Dubai on February 23 in the group stage.
England plays the role of Afghanistan after three days in Lahore in a match that faced a violent reaction in some circles in Britain.
More than 160 British politicians called for a boycott in response to the Taliban government’s ban on women in sports.
Richard Thompson, Chairman of the Board of England Cricket, will proceed that the match will go ahead, saying that a “international response coordinated” by the cricket community will achieve more than one -sided procedure.
The Champions Cup will be the first ICC event in Pakistan since the 1996 World Cup hosted with India and Sri Lanka.
Karachi and Rawalpindi are the other Pakistani cities that will organize games.
Pakistan became a limited area for foreign teams after the gunmen in the visiting Sri Lankan squad in 2009, leaving eight people dead and wounding many players in walking.
But with the improvement of security in most parts of the country, the international cricket game returned to Pakistan in 2020.
India’s preferences
India, Pakistan, New Zealand and Bangladesh, Australia, England, Afghanistan and South Africa in the B.
Two teams from each group qualify for the semi -finals in Dubai and Lahore.
Pakistan is protecting the heroes, after defeating India in the final in 2017 in The OVAL in London.
But the winners of twice in India are the ones who are the favorites, where the racket star Firat Kohli hopes to overcome a bad form through his higher standards in the sky.
This 36 -year -old can be on the international stage, as Captain Rohit Sharma is likely to retire after the tournament.
“India plays a wonderful cricket game all over the round as well as among the Champions Cup candidates,” Sonl Javascar, former India captain Sunil Javascar, told AFP.
“The other difference, in my opinion, to keep them is to defend the heroes of Pakistan, New Zealand and South Africa.”
However, India will lose the head of Pace Pace Gasper Pumita.
Australia beat India’s hosts to win the World Cup for one day in 2023, but they miss many main players.
Their massive attack on Bat Kamins, Mitchell Stark and Josh Hazliowood are all outside.
Besides the sudden retirement of ODIS from Marcus Stoynis and the injury of Mitchell Marsh-both major throughout the round-Australia suddenly seems at risk.
They were struck well 2-0 in Sri Lanka in a series of two games last week. Sri Lanka failed to qualify for the Champions Cup.
Pakistan will open the ninth edition of the Champions Cup with a match against New Zealand in Karachi on Wednesday.
Participation harassment cannot be predicted, as they showed in the last edition of the tournament, and lost to India by 124 races in the opening match before winning the final against them by 180 runs.
England enters the competition under a cloud, after India outperformed it in the T20 series and one day in the victory.
With the quality spinning led by Rashid Khan, Afghanistan is dangerous.
They shocked England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the 2023 World Cup and reached the semi -finals of the Twenty20 World Cup last year.
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