ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Match Officials For The Mega Event Announced

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The International Cricket Council announced match officials for the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025 to be played from 19th February to 9th March in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.

India, Pakistan, New Zealand & Bangladesh are placed in Group A. Australia, South Africa, England &Afghanistan will be the group of death as all teams performed well in the recent ICC events.

Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand &Afghanistan will play matches in Pakistan. Lahore, Rawalpindi& Karachi will host matches in Pakistan while India’s matches will take place in Dubai. India will face Bangladesh on the 20th of February. They will face arch-rivals Pakistan on the 23rd. The final group match will see them face New Zealand on 2nd March 2025.

The top two teams in each group will qualify for the semi-finals. If India makes it into the top four, one of the semi-finals would take place in Dubai. It promises to be an exciting tournament with the top 8 teams taking part.

Pakistan is currently the defending champions of this tournament. They registered a thumping 180-run win in the finals against arch-rivals India to win the prestigious ICC Champions Trophy for the first time.

Here we look at the match officials for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025

1.      Umpires

Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka), Chris Gaffney (New Zealand), Michael Gough (England), Adrian Holdstock (South Africa), Richard Illingworth (England), Richard Kettleborough (England), Ahsan Raza (Pakistan), Paul Riffel (Australia), Sharfuddola Shahid (Bangladesh), Rodney Tucker (Australia), Alex Wharf (England), Joel Wilson (West Indies).

Match Referees

David Boon (Australia), Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka), Andrew Pycroft (Zimbabwe).

This tournament provides great competition between the top 8 teams in the world. Afghanistan qualified for this mega event by finishing higher in rankings during the 2023 World Cup played in India.

Afghanistan defeated the likes of England, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and the Netherlands. They almost upset Australia, but due to the brilliance of Maxwell, Afghanistan’s dream of reaching the semi-finals of the mega event went down in the vein.

 


                                            Match officials for the CT 2025 announced  

 

 

 

 

 

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