DTVHINDI“The hotel is far away, yet the players will reach the stadium in 6 minutes”, Pakistan’s amazing arrangements for the Champions Trophy
Former Pakistan cricketer Salman Butt is confident that the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be a huge success as it will be hosted in Pakistan. Champions Trophy (Image Credit- Twitter X) Former Pakistani cricketer Salman Butt is confident that the upcoming 2025 ICC Champions Trophy will be a huge success as it will be hosted in Pakistan. This is because cricket enjoys immense popularity in Pakistan. He further said that the tournament will be even bigger than the recently concluded 2024 T20 World Cup, which was hosted by the West Indies and the United States of America (USA). The former Pakistan captain says that the US was chosen as the host for the 2024 T20 World Cup, but cricket was not popular there. Due to which the tournament could not be organized with much fanfare and was not much discussed. Butt explained in his YouTube video how things will be very different if the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is held on Pakistani soil- Salman Butt gave this statement on hosting the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 “This event (ICC Champions Trophy 2025e) by Pakistan cannot be compared to the USA or any other country. It will definitely be a more successful event than the T20 World Cup. The pitches were not that good there, the stadiums were far away and the hotels were elsewhere. The locals did not know what was happening in their cities, only the foreigners living there knew about cricket.” It is worth noting that the ICC reportedly suffered huge financial losses by organizing the 2024 T20 World Cup in the US. New news agency PTIAccording to (via NDTV), the ICC had suffered a loss of around $20 million (approximately ₹167 crores). Salman Butt on the craze for cricket in Asia Explaining his point, Salman Butt highlighted that ICC events in Asian countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are guaranteed to be a success due to the craze among fans. Butt said that although the teams had to travel a lot during the 2024 T20 World Cup, they will get presidential security in Pakistan, which will reduce their travel time considerably. “The love and respect that the players will get will be completely different when the tournament is played in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh. Also, the teams will not have to travel for hours. Everything will be sealed and it will take just six minutes for the team to reach the stadium. This is presidential security, a feeling that can never be had in America.”
NZC has no confidence in PCB’s security arrangements, Pakistan will send its own delegation before Pakistan tour
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) itself wants to inspect the security arrangements. New Zealand Cricket Team. (Image Source: Twitter) PAK vs NZ: New Zealand Cricket (NZC) is leaving no stone unturned in strengthening the security of its players. Actually, New Zealand cricket team (New Zealand Cricket Team) is scheduled to tour Pakistan to play a five-match T20I series in April this year. Before sending its team on this tour, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) itself wants to inspect the security arrangements. According to media reports, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is in discussions with New Zealand Cricket (NZC) to finalize the dates and venues of the upcoming T20I series. This window will be from April 13 to 24, which means it will clash with some matches of the upcoming Indian Premier League 2024 (IPL 2024). New Zealand Cricket Team’s security will be closely monitored for NZ vs PAK T20I series Ahead of this tour, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has decided to send a security delegation to Pakistan to get information about the security arrangements to be made by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the upcoming T20I series so that there is no problem during the tour. . According to a report in Times of India, the delegation being sent by New Zealand Cricket (NZC) to Pakistan will also include private security expert Reg Dickason as well as Health Milly, a senior official of the NZC Players Association. Reg Dickason has experience working with the ICC and various cricket boards during major tours of Pakistan over the years. Kiwi team has toured Pakistan twice “This delegation will visit Lahore and Rawalpindi in early March, where T20I matches will probably be played,” the source said. Let us tell you, this delegation will inspect the match venues and team hotels, and will hold meetings with the government and security officials to review and enhance the security arrangements for the New Zealand team. Actually, this tour is being done to avoid the incident of 2021 when the New Zealand team returned from Rawalpindi in September without playing the scheduled matches due to security concerns. However, after that the Kiwi team has toured Pakistan twice.
