ISLAMABAD: Next week, Pakistan will host its first significant multi-country cricket tournament in almost thirty years, and the country’s cricket leader is optimistic that a successful Champions Trophy can lead to a plethora of more events of this kind.
Following the 2009 attack on a bus transporting Sri Lankan cricket players in Lahore, which forced them to move their home matches, primarily to the United Arab Emirates, top teams ignored Pakistan.
Convincing international peers that it was safe to visit took the Pakistan Cricket Board years. Following the board’s successful domestic launch of its own T20 league in 2017 with a number of international players, touring teams started to return.
“Those efforts have culminated in the ICC (International Cricket Council) Champions Trophy 2025,” PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi told Reuters.
