After BCCI refused to send Rohit Sharma’s men to Pakistan due to security reasons, India are playing all their Champions Trophy 2025 matches in Dubai.
India head coach Gautam Gambhir put a full stop to the debate of India getting excessive advantage of playing in a single venue in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy, stating the Indian team didn’t train at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. India won the semifinal against Australia and enter in the Champions Trophy final to be played on 9th March 2025.
As many has been spoken about India playing all their Champions Trophy matches in Dubai while other teams are playing in the different venues in Pakistan and even traveling between Pakistan and Dubai.
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Ever since Pakistan was announced as the hosts of the hosts of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the BCCI has taken decision of not sending the Indian cricket team to Pakistan due to security reasons.
Gautam Gambhir during the post-match press conference on Tuesday told “There is no undue advantage in India playing in Dubai. This venue is as neutral for us as it is for the others. We have not even practiced once at this ground as of now. We practiced at the ICC Academy,”.
When did Champions Trophy one-venue debate of India start?
This subject first came into light when former England cricketers Michael Atherton and Naseer Hussain spoke about the this subject in a Sky Sports podcast. Later, England skipper Jos Buttler and South African Rassie Van Der Dussen put forth their views against India.
Joe Buttler has told before England’s game against Afghanistan “Not really. I think it’s a unique tournament already, isn’t it, with being hosted here with one team playing in a different place but that’s not something I’m sort of worried too much about at the moment”.
Rassie Van der Dussen said ESPNCricinfo “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that the ability to train and play in one place, coupled with the absence of any inter-city or inter-country travel, gives India an edge that they will be under pressure to fully exploit,”.
“What about the advantage India have in playing in Dubai, only in Dubai? Which seems to me to be a hard-to-quantify advantage, but an undeniable advantage,” Michael Atherton said former England skipper Naseer Hussain.
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