Courtesy: PCB
On Friday, February 7, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) unveiled the newly minted official jersey of the national team for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, which will be played in Pakistan and the UAE. In the video posted on the official X account, which is more than 90 seconds long, some of the top Pakistan players, both men and women, were spotted wearing the new jersey, including names like Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Fakhar Zaman, and Shaheen Afridi, alongside Sadia Iqbal and Fatima Sana.
The short clip from the PCB portrays the message of how the green-coloured jersey of the Pakistan cricket team brings everyone together in the country, and makes them support the Men in Green proudly as one. Notably, in the Champions Trophy, there will be 15 matches in total, and at least 10 of them will be played in Pakistan excluding the matches of the Indian cricket team, and the first semi-final, while the venue of the final on March 9 is yet to be confirmed.
Pakistan will play tri-series at home versus New Zealand and South Africa ahead of Champions Trophy
The opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be played at the newly revamped National Bank Stadium in Karachi between Pakistan and New Zealand on February 19, which will be a part of Group A. Following that, Pakistan will take on arch-rivals India at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on February 23, while their final group stage game will be against Bangladesh at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on February 27.
The Group B of the eight-team Champions Trophy comprises Afghanistan, Australia, England, and South Africa. Moreover, just before the start of the ICC tournament, Pakistan are slated to play against New Zealand in the opening match of the tri-series at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Saturday, February 8, and the third team in the four-match tri-series are South Africa, who will begin their campaign in a day game on Monday, February 10 versus the Black Caps.
