ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Ricky Ponting: The upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is scheduled to start in Pakistan from February 19. Even before the tournament starts, predictions have started about which team will reach the finals. For this, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has predicted two possible teams to reach the finals of the tournament.
What did Ricky Ponting say?
Ponting said, “India and Australia may clash in the finals of this tournament.” India and Australia have clashed with each other in the first twice in the first twice, which was captained by Rohit Sharma and Pat Cummins. It includes the ODI Cup as well as the ICC Champions Trophy. There is no doubt that both teams are the best teams in this format. This is why Ponting feels that India and Australia may clash in the finals.
There is a lot of possibility of playing the finals between India and Australia.
Recently, the border-Gavaskar Trophy of five Test matches was played between the two teams. Which was taken by the Australian team 3–1. Ponting said, “If we look at the quality of players of both countries in recent times and the history of previous years, we will realize that whenever a big ICC tournament has been held, Australia and India are definitely present somewhere. . ”
Pakistan’s team can also reach the semi -finals
Apart from this, the Australian captain has also included the Pakistan cricket team in four possible teams who made it to the semi -finals of the Champions Trophy. According to him, ‘as the host of the tournament,’ Men in Green ‘(Pakistani team) will get the benefit of domestic conditions’. If any other team is actually playing good cricket at this time, then it is a Pakistani team. His performance in the ODI format has been good for some time.
