The Champions Trophy 2025 will start on 19 February in Karachi, which will be played till 9 March. All the countries have started announcing their squads for this tournament to be played for 8 teams. Let us tell you, cricket fans are eagerly waiting for this tournament, because the Champions Trophy is going to return after 8 years. Earlier, Champions Trophy was played in the year 2017. But this time the Champions Trophy will be played without a champion team. A team which has won the title of this tournament.

Champions Trophy will be played without a champion team

For Champions Trophy 2025, 8 teams have been divided into 2 groups. Team India is in Group A with Pakistan, New Zealand and Bangladesh. Whereas, teams from Australia, England, South Africa and Afghanistan are present in the second group. But this time the Sri Lankan team is not a part of the Champions Trophy. Actually, Sri Lanka could not qualify for the Champions Trophy 2025. Actually, to qualify for the Champions Trophy 2025, all the teams had to finish in the top 8 in the points table during the ODI World Cup 2023 played in India. But Sri Lankan team was at number 9.

Let us tell you, Champions Trophy was started in the year 1998. But this will be the first time that the Champions Trophy will be played without the Sri Lankan team. Before this, Sri Lanka had qualified every time. At the same time, Sri Lanka has also won the Champions Trophy title once. Actually, there was no result in the final match of the 2002 Champions Trophy. In such a situation, the teams of India and Sri Lanka were chosen co-champions.

The final match was washed out in the rain

In 2002, the final match of the Champions Trophy was played on 29 September. In this match, Sri Lanka, batting first, scored 244 runs for five wickets in 50 overs. In response to this target, Team India could play only 2 overs and the match was stopped due to rain. After this the match was played again on the reserve day. Let us tell you, according to the rules of ICC at that time, the match used to start from the beginning on the reserve day. In such a situation, Sri Lanka again batted first and scored 222 runs. But this time also Team India played only 8.4 overs and the match was stopped due to rain. After this both the teams were declared joint winners.