The schedule of Champions Trophy 2025 has not come yet nor has it been decided yet where it will be held, but in the meantime the Pakistan Cricket Board has started its preparation. The PCB has prepared a draft schedule and sent it to the ICC, which will release it later. Meanwhile, the PCB has announced that before the Champions Trophy, the Pakistan cricket team will play a triangular series with three countries. Its complete schedule and names of countries have also been revealed.
Pakistan team will play triangular series with New Zealand and South Africa
Pakistan Cricket Board has announced its schedule before the Champions Trophy of 2024 and 2025. According to PCB, Pakistan cricket team will play a triangular series with New Zealand and South Africa in February. All matches will be played in Multan itself. The first match of the series will be played between Pakistan and New Zealand on 8 February. After this, the teams of New Zealand and South Africa will face each other on 10 February. The match between Pakistan and South Africa is to be played on 12 February. After this, the final match will be played between the two teams which will be on top on 14 February.
PCB submitted the schedule of Champions Trophy to ICC
It has also been announced by the PCB that the Champions Trophy will be held in Pakistan from 19 February to 9 March. The board has also given the names of the 8 teams participating in it. It includes the names of Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa. However, it is not yet decided whether the Indian team will go to Pakistan to play the Champions Trophy or not. But Pakistan has almost finalized its preparations. It is said that in the draft schedule of the Champions Trophy given by the PCB to the ICC, the date of the India and Pakistan match has been fixed as March 1 and this match will be played in Lahore.
Here is the complete schedule of Pakistan’s home series
The PCB has also announced that the team will play two Test matches against Bangladesh, which will start in August. After this, the team is also preparing to play a three match Test series against England at home in October. In January, the team will play a two-Test series with the West Indies. This is only the schedule of the home series. When the Pakistani team will go to another country i.e. play an away series, its schedule is somewhat different.