The Pakistan team squad is prepping hard for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025 which will be hosted by them and UAE from February 19 to March 9. Before that tournament, Pakistan will be involved in a tri-nation ODI series featuring South Africa and New Zealand.
This ODI tri-series will be played from 8 to 14 February at the newly constructed Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore and National Bank Stadium in Karachi.
Pakistan will take on New Zealand at the Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday and New Zealand will take on South Africa on Monday, 10 February at the Gaddafi Stadium.
Following the second match, the action will shift to Karachi, where the home team will face South Africa at the National Bank Stadium in a day-night match on Wednesday, February 12. On Friday, February 14, the top two teams will face off in the event's final.
Ahead of this series and the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the new design jersey and kit of the Pakistan team was officially unveiled on Friday, at the newly renovated Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) also published a minute-long promotional video to showcase the jersey, which included white-ball skipper Mohammad Rizwan, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and women's cricketers Sadia Iqbal and Fatima Sana.
Pakistan's Champions Trophy 2025 campaign will begin on February 19 with a curtain-raiser against New Zealand at the newly renovated National Bank Stadium in Karachi. The national team will then travel to Dubai, where they will face arch-rivals India on February 23.
The green shirts will play their final group-stage match against Bangladesh on February 27 in Rawalpindi.
The eight-team tournament will be held in three cities in Pakistan and Dubai: Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi. It will consist of 15 matches.
The eight teams are separated into two groups. Group A consists of Pakistan, India, New Zealand, and Bangladesh, while Group B includes Afghanistan, South Africa, England, and Australia.
Pakistan squad for tri-nation series and Champions Trophy 2025:
Mohammad Rizwan (C-WK), Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Tayyab Tahir, Faheem Ashraf, Khushdil Shah, Salman Ali Agha (VC), Usman Khan (WK), Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah and Shaheen Shah Afridi
