The continued ICC Champions Trophy 2025 has been hit by one other controversy after former England captain Michael Atherton questioned India’s “home-like” benefit of enjoying all their matches on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Dubai, UAE.
Michael Atherton has identified that different groups are touring throughout a number of venues and adjusting to completely different situations within the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2025; India has been granted the uncommon luxurious of enjoying all their matches at a single venue in Dubai.
Michael Atherton questions India’s benefit in ICC Champions Trophy 2025
The Englishman believes this luxurious offers the Males in Blue an simple edge, as they’ll focus completely on mastering Dubai’s situations with none journey or the challenges of unfamiliar pitches within the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy.
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Michael Atherton stated on Sky Sports activities Podcast: “What concerning the benefit India has in enjoying in Dubai, solely in Dubai? Which appears to me to be a hard-to-quantify benefit, however an simple benefit. They’re enjoying at only one venue. They don’t need to journey both between venues or, you already know, between international locations, as plenty of different groups need to do. Subsequently, the choice, you already know, can focus in on the situations in Dubai.”
He additionally highlighted that India already is aware of their semifinal venue, which provides them an additional edge in lots of points, and that’s completely unfair to the opposite groups. The previous England captain stated that the Indian cricket staff will put together in response to the situations in Dubai whereas different groups received’t have that luxurious.
It’s sort of laborious to quantify how large a bonus: Michael Atherton
Atherton has not directly slammed the ICC for giving ‘too large a bonus’ to the Males in Blue that he couldn’t even quantify. He feels that the ICC did injustice to the opposite groups solely as a result of Rohit Sharma and his staff refused to play in Pakistan.
He signed off by saying, “And clearly, they’ll know the place they’re enjoying their semi-final as and once they get by to that. That appears to me to be an simple benefit, however, you already know, it’s sort of laborious to quantify how large a bonus.”
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Notably, the Indian authorities didn’t give NOCs to the BCCI to ship the Indian cricket staff to Pakistan for the continued Champions Trophy 2025 as a consequence of safety causes. This led to plenty of delay in confirming the standing of the event, and ultimately, ICC and PCB needed to shift India’s matches to Dubai.
India, New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia set to qualify for the ICC Champions Trophy semifinals
As India qualify for the semifinals, one knockout match shall be held in Dubai, which may even host the Champions Trophy 2025 last if the Males in Blue make it to the summit conflict underneath the hybrid mannequin. Pakistan are already out of the semifinals race after shedding the primary two video games.
Indian gamers are acquainted with Dubai’s situations, they usually have already got a robust staff, they made essentially the most of it by profitable their first two video games in opposition to Bangladesh and Pakistan within the event to safe a spot within the semifinals.
Notably, from Group A, India and New Zealand are sure, whereas Australia and South Africa from Group B are more likely to make it to the Prime-4 of the continued Champions Trophy 2025.
