This year Champions Trophy were hosted by Pakistan as they were the regaining champions of last edition. But India refused to travel due to diplomatic reasons, though fortalks were conducted between PCB and BCCI about the venue, it was designated that BCCI agreed that India will play all their matches in Lahore same as happening in Dubai to avoid the frequent travelling avoiding the security aspects but it ended in a bad note where hybrid model was choosed 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 few ex cricketers raised their voices ( Nasser Hussain, Pat Cummins)for this diplomacy to India stating disadvantage to other teams, even it reflected chaos in internet too.But the matches were still played. 

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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 acess the pitch. Even coach Gautam Gambhir too was asked this question by an Pakistani reporter  about the advantage, he gave a benifiting 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 in ICC academy. He stated some people are perpetual scribbers they need to stop this and asked them to Grow up. And it was thought the issue was bending in curve but suddenly it has risen again.

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Miller is heavily dissapointed with frequent travelling

When semi finals line up weren't decided both Australia and South Africa reached Dubai, once India match was over and scheduled 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 claims its just 1 hour 40 minutes of flight its ok but it adjacent the freauency It's early morning, it's 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.