Dubai: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday issued a vote of thanks to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for successfully hosting the men’s Champions Trophy 2025, concluded on Sunday.
The prestigious tournament, which marked its return after 2017, was the first ICC tournament organized by Pakistan since 1996.
The eight-team tournaments, including 15 matches, played at three places from February 19 to March 9-in Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi-Pakistan, while the final champions India played all their matches in Dubai.
In a statement issued by the Cricket Governing Body, the Chief Executive Officer of the ICC Geof Alladice said that the PCB should be “very proud” to its efforts for successful hosting the Champions Trophy 2025, including renewal of major stadiums and cursors of enough pitches for matches.
“We want to thank and congratulate the Pakistan Cricket Board for successfully hosting the ICC Men Champions Trophy 2025,” said Alardis.
“As it was the first global multi-team cricket event to be played in the country since 1996, the incident was very important for PCB, and all people involved in renovation of stadiums, preparing the surfaces of sports, distributing matches and hosting teams and visitors should be very proud of their efforts.”
“ICC would like to thank the Emirates Cricket Board for staging five of the five matches in Dubai and will continue to provide great support to the ICC in staging its leading men and women’s programs.”
Earlier today, ICC President J Shah thanked the eight -participated teams, Pakistan and fans hosting the tournament for giving ‘big success’ to the tournament.
“From me (ICC), I want to thank teams, tournament hosts, broadcasting licensees, our sponsors, ICC employees, suppliers – and of course incredible fans around the world – who simultaneously helped this #Championstrophy to make a big success,” Shah wrote on X.
