The top seven teams at the end of the league stage of the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 will compete in the eight-team competition along with the hosts Pakistan, ESPN Cricinfo reported.
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The announcement from the ICC has confirmed that only those teams currently participating in the ICC Men’s World Cup 2023 will be eligible to qualify for the 2025 Champions Trophy, which means that other full-member teams like West Indies, Zimbabwe and Ireland will not even have the opportunity to qualify for the event, by virtue of not having made it to the this ODI World Cup.
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For the previous two editions of the Champions Trophy in 2013 and 2017, the top eight teams in the ODI rankings qualified for the event. The 2025 edition is scheduled to take place between February and March, with teams divided into two groups of four for the first stage of the tournament before the Semi-Finals and Final.
