ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rohit Sharma's Pakistan visit confirmed? BCCI secretary reveals

The newly appointed secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Devajit Saikia provided a massive update about Rohit Sharma's chances to travel to Pakistan for the captain's meet of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. He said that they haven't decided anything related to it yet.

The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is yet again marred by the controversy between BCCI and PCB. After the hybrid model was finally accepted for the tournament, the talks now are related to whether India National Cricket Team skipper Rohit Sharma will be travelling to Pakistan for the media engagement and captain's photoshoot.

It was expected that Rohit Sharma too will be travelling to Pakistan for captains meet, BCCI refuses to send skipper - Reports

As per the policy of the ICC, the captains of all the participating teams congregate before any ICC event opening ceremony and talk about their plans and aims. Apart from this, they also pose with the Trophy before the event. During the ICC World Cup 2023 too, Pakistan skipper Babar Azam did the same.

It was expected that Rohit Sharma too will be travelling to Pakistan but there were reports recently that claimed that BCCI has refused to send their captain. PCB also reacted to the reports saying that "BCCI is bringing politics into cricket, which is not at all good for the game."

Whether Rohit Sharma travels to Pakistan for ICC media engagements is something that's still not decided - BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia

Amid all the reports, the BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia opened up about Rohit Sharma’s travel to Pakistan saga. He said that they haven't decided as of yet about it and the call will be taken soon. Speaking about the same, he said:

"Whether Rohit Sharma travels to Pakistan for ICC media engagements is something that's still not decided."

BCCI needs to consider if Rohit Sharma visits Pakistan for a customary photoshoot and pre-event press conference

The reports in PTI claimed that sending Rohit Sharma to Pakistan is still under consideration. It is learned that there are certain issues that BCCI needs to consider if its captain visits Pakistan for a customary photo shoot and pre-event press conference.

There were some other sections of the reports which claimed that BCCI has requested ICC to shift the pre-tournament captains' engagements to the UAE. But it will be a very difficult thing to do, considering that all the other teams will be playing the games in Pakistan.

India will be playing all their games in the UAE during the ICC Champions Trophy 2024. Their opening game will be played against the Bangladesh National Cricket Team on 20th February, followed by games against the Pakistan National Cricket Team and New Zealand National Cricket Team on 23rd February and 2nd March respectively. They would be keen to win the title as they lost to Pakistan in the final of the tournament last time in 2017.

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