The Champions Trophy 2025 for Pakistan seems to be converting into a lot of trouble. For the first time after about 30 years, Pakistan, which is organizing an ICC event for the first time, has already had to accept the demand for the hybrid model for organizing the tournament, due to which Team India will play their matches in Dubai. If this was not enough, now the Pakistani board is on the target of everyone due to the tournament not being prepared yet and it seems that the Pakistan Cricket Board will not be able to handover all the stadiums ICC till the deadline of 31 January.

The tournament is to begin in Pakistan from February 19, for which the Pakistani board has made Lahore, Rawalpindi and Karachi a venue. For the first time in Pakistan, a big international tournament is being organized in Pakistan and in such a situation the PCB had decided to make the necessary reshuffle and repair in its three venue. Out of this, there was not much change in the stadium of Rawalpindi and it was also ready on time, but from the construction of new structures in the venue of Karachi and Lahore, new flood lights and seats are also being installed and the preparation of PCB is loose here. Has been

Will ICC take action?

The latest pictures coming from Lahore and Karachi are telling that the construction work is still lagging behind the deadline. In both the stadiums, essential works like flood lights and VIP boxes have not been completed yet, while the deadline given by the ICC ends on Friday 31 January. Seeing the current situation of stadiums, former Indian batsman and commentator Akash Chopra also raised questions and asked if the safety of the players was being endangered?

He said on YouTube channel, "Pakistan is following the deadline. If your grounds are not yet ready, if you do not hand them over to the ICC till January 31 or give them half the preparation, then the ICC will have to take a decision at some time or the other whether they are correct or not? Are we threatening security? "

PCB big claims

This is not the first time that work on deadline is not completed. Earlier, the deadline was given on 31 December, but PCB could not complete the work even at the same time. However, the Pakistani board is still claiming that the stadium will be ready before the Champions Trophy. Also, he has announced the inauguration of Lahore on 7 February and Karachi Stadium on 11 February. Not only this, PCB has also organized a 4 match tri -series before the Champions Trophy on both these grounds.