Champions Trophy 2025: The ICC mega event in the fifty-overs format returns after 2017. The Champions Trophy was played eight years ago in England, and Pakistan won that event. The Men in Green will go into this year’s edition as the defending champions.
Pakistan is also the host of this year’s Champions Trophy 2025. They will play the opening encounter of this eight-team tournament against New Zealand in Karachi on Wednesday, 19th February 2025. Pakistan was under Sarfraz Ahmned when they lifted the last CT in 2017.
The teams of the Champions Trophy 2025 are placed according to their performances in the ODI World Cup 2023 and their rankings in the fifty-overs format. Teams like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Australia, England, South Africa and Afghanistan will play in this 50 overs event.
Afghanistan will play its first-ever Champions Trophy in 2025 after they gave a decent performance in the 2023 ODI WC. However, today, we shall mention the two teams that have won an ICC Trophy but still failed to qualify for this tournament, where India will play its matches in Dubai.
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1. West Indies –
The ODI World Cup champions in 1975 and 1979 had also come close to winning the trophy in 1983. West Indies had also won the two T20 World Cup titles in 2012 and 2016. The Windies are also the winners of the 2004 Champions Trophy and the Under 19 World Cup in that same year.
But recently their performances have been poor in the fifty-overs format and that is why this Caribbean side couldn’t qualify for the 2023 World Cup of the One Day International format and this is also the reason why West Indies will not play the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
2. Sri Lanka –
The Sri Lankan Tigers are playing well in the fifty overs series against Australia at Colombo currently. The home side, Sri Lanka won the 1st One Day International match and that too after being drubbed against Steve Smith and his men in the red ball format series.
Sri Lanka has won one ODI World Cup and one World Cup of the shortest form of the game. Their lone ODI WC win came in 1996 under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga, the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh under the leadership of Lasith Malinga and the Champions Trophy which was tied with India in 2002 under Sanath Jayasuriya.
But Sri Lanka has failed to qualify for the Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan. That was because they didn’t do well in the fifty overs mega event of the ICC in 2023. In that ICC event, the Lankans won just two matches and now they are ninth in the ICC rankings of the fifty overs format.
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