A high-voltage match will be played between India and Pakistan on 23 February at the Dubai International Stadium, which is eagerly awaited by the players of both the teams as well as the fans. So far, both the teams have played one match each in this tournament, in which the Indian team defeated Bangladesh by 6 wickets, while Pakistan had to face defeat by 60 runs in the match against New Zealand. All the fans are eagerly waiting for the match to be played between India and Pakistan on the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in the Champions Trophy 2025.
Team India will be eyeing to make their way to the semi-finals easier by winning the match against Pakistan, on the other hand, the Pakistani team will try to keep itself in this race. Just before this match, the statement of Pakistani fast bowler Haris Rauf has come out, in which his overconfidence was clearly visible and has said that there is no pressure on his team regarding the match against India. Let us tell you that the Indian team had to face defeat in the match against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup played on this ground in the year 2021 and then in the Asia Cup in the year 2022.
Haris Rauf, while talking to journalists before the match against India, said in his statement that we have won the last 2 matches played here against the Indian team, due to which our confidence is also going to be good. Our effort will be to repeat the same performance again so that Team India can be defeated. I hope this will be a good match. There is no doubt that our record here is better but a lot is going to depend on the pitch, because it can be a spin track. We will try to make a plan in the same way after seeing the conditions.
The Pakistani team suffered a big setback in the first match in the form of Fakhar Zaman who was ruled out of the entire tournament due to being unfit. On this, Haris Rauf said that the team will definitely miss Fakhar but we still have players in the team who can prove to be match winners. All of us are currently focused on the match against India in which every player knows that he can become a big hero by performing well in this match. Rauf also said that the absence of Sam Ayub is also a big blow for us in the Champions Trophy.