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Champions Trophy 2025: Virat Kohli Drops A Massive Hint On India's Participation

Gambhir and Kohli- (X.com)Gambhir and Kohli- (X.com)

On Wednesday, September 18, BCCI dropped an interview featuring Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. The apex cricket board first dropped a teaser and later released a 20-minute-long video. 

In the now-viral interview, Virat and Gambhir sat down for a candid chat and talked about the highlights of their career, top knocks and a lot of other things. Meanwhile, Virat also spoke about the upcoming games and mentioned the Champions Trophy in the interview. 

"With 10 Test matches, Champions Trophy coming up - it will be exciting, lots of memories to create & hopefully lots of success for us as a team," said Kohli, speaking with Gambhir. 

BCCI's Stand On Champions Trophy 2025

Champions Trophy 2025 is set to start from February 16 in Pakistan. At present, the three selected venues in Pakistan are under renovation as five-member ICC team has arrived in Karachi to inspect the preparations so far. 

Meanwhile, BCCI has not made any official remark on India's participation in Champions Trophy 2025, but there are reports that the board is looking for a hybrid model similar to Asia Cup 2023 as they do not want to travel to Pakistan because of security concerns. 

Amid all the rumours of the event moving out of Pakistan, ICC allocating extra funds to PCB to shift  India games out of Pakistan, recently ICC CEO cleared the air and stated that the tournament will stay in Pakistan and seven out of the eight participating countries have no issue playing in Pakistan. 

ICC Team On Four-Day Tour To Pakistan

On Tuesday, September 17, a five-member ICC team arrived in Pakistan to inspect the preparations. It is a four-day visit, where the delegation will assess the stadium, practice facilities and hotels during their visit. They will start from Karachi and then proceed to Islamabad before concluding their visit in Lahore on September 21.