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The One-Day International format, cricket’s middle child, gets new lease of life in Champions Trophy 2025

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In psychology, the ‘middle-child syndrome’ theory’s inference is that the middle child in a family—stuck between the older and younger siblings—feels neglected or starved of parental love and attention. In recent times, the One-Day International game has become cricket’s middle child caught between the classical Tests and the fast-paced T20Is. It has been denied love … Read more

Champions Trophy 2025 Preview: ODI’s best eight vie for top honour as ICC competition returns to Pakistan after 29 years

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When the last ICC Champions Trophy game was played at The Oval in 2017, the organisers had the dream matchup: archrivals India and Pakistan squaring off for the crown, with the latter emerging triumphant. Despite the success of that event, it was axed from the calendar and was replaced by the T20 World Cup in … Read more

Pakistan hopeful Champions Trophy 2025 will bring more big events

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Pakistan will host its first major multi-country cricket tournament in nearly three decades next week, and its cricket chief is hopeful that a successful Champions Trophy will bring a flood of other such events. Top teams shunned Pakistan after the 2009 attack on a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, forcing it to relocate … Read more

UK politicians urge England to boycott Champions Trophy game against Afghanistan

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England should refuse to play the Champions Trophy cricket match against Afghanistan next month according to a letter signed by more than 160 U.K. politicians. The politicians want the England and Wales Cricket Board to take a stand against the Taliban regime’s assault on women’s rights and boycott the men’s ODI against Afghanistan in Lahore, … Read more