The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 concluded last week and it saw India winning the tournament. The tournament was held across two different countries in Pakistan - Lahore, Rawalpindi, Karachi- and United Arab Emirates - Dubai, where the Rohit Sharma-led side played all their games including the semi-final and final.
As India played all their games in Dubai, it saw many fans and experts criticizing the India team as well as the ICC. They mentioned that the Men in Blue had an unfair advantage of playing at one venue and the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 was devised in a way to help them win.
This was left to the 11th hour, It was wrong of the ICC not to have dealt with this much, much earlier - Ehsan Mani
"It's very disappointing the way it was managed. The responsibility for this is with the ICC. When they allocated events to India and Pakistan, knowing the current relations between the countries, then the onus was entirely on the ICC to ensure that the event and the issues that came up had been dealt with much, much before the tournament actually started,"
The pitch was the same for all the teams playing there - Ehsan Mani
Ehsan Mani also talked about talks of India having an unfair advantage of playing at one venue. He mentioned that the pitch was the same for all the teams playing there and there is no point in being critical. He said:
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