Published - Mar 6, 2025, 13:42 IST | Updated - Mar 27, 2025, 15:55 IST
Updated - Mar 27, 2025, 15:55 IST
This year Champions Trophy were hosted by Pakistan as they were the regaining champions of the last edition. But India refused to travel due to diplomatic reasons, though talks were conducted between PCB and BCCI about the venue, it was designated that BCCI agreed that India would play all their matches in Lahore same as happening in Dubai to avoid the frequent travelling avoiding the security aspects it ended in a bad note where the hybrid model was chosen and India took Dubai to play all their matches.
Where all the teams were playing in Pakistan, now the teams scheduled against India had to do frequent travelling from Dubai to Pakistan. Even a few ex-cricketers raised their voices ( Nasser Hussain, Pat Cummins)for this diplomacy to India stating a disadvantage to other teams, even though it reflected chaos on the internet too. But the matches were still played.
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The coach and Captain close the call.
Earlier captain Rohit Sharma was asked this question in which he responded what type of advantage do we got, we wont play here often this is also new to us. Aspiring we don't know what type of pitch we are going to play and how can someone say that we have the advantage. Even this pitch is slight difficult which offered in Pakistan.
We are players too we don't get alter day to access the pitch. Even coach Gautam Gambhir too was asked this question by a Pakistani reporter about the advantage, he gave a befitting reply that we didn't get any advantage look at the pitches in Pakistan and in Dubai who is easy. We don't practice here we do our practice at ICC Academy. He stated some people are perpetual scrubbers they need to stop this and asked them to Grow up. It was thought the issue was bending in a curve but suddenly it has risen again.
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Miller is heavily disappointed with frequent travelling.
When the semi-final lineup wasn't decided both Australia and South Africa reached Dubai, once India's match was over and schedules were fixed South Africa flew back to Pakistan for their game against New Zealand. After the semi-final loss against New Zealand, David Miller seemed quite unhappy he claimed it was just 1 hour and 40 minutes of flight its ok but it was adjacent to the frequency It was early morning, it was after a game and we had to fly. Then we got to Dubai at 4:00 pm.
And at 7.30 am we had to come back. It doesn't make it nice. It's not like we flew five hours, and we had enough time to recover and recuperate, but it was not an ideal situation still. Chasing 360 on a batting track too was not that easy because it detoriated in middle of the innings, yet credit to them because they spun the ball very well which gave more drift. When asked about who gonna support in final his answer was New Zealand.
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