ICC Champions Trophy’s first game will see the 2025 host Pakistan The upcoming horns New Zealand. The opening of the tournament is planned to be played on Wednesday (February 19) in the National Stadium in Karachi.
With the first two teams that qualified for the semifinals from each group, they will be looking to start both Pakistan and the New Zealand campaign with a victory. Each team will play three games in the group stage and there is no more space for any slip.
Pakistan and New Zealand recently faced each other twice in the tri-series. At the first meeting, Pakistan took place during the thrashing league scene with New Zealand and 78 runs. Both teams were also against each other in the final.
In the final, New Zealand went ahead of Pakistan and won the game with 5 wickets. With both of Teams Now all ICC Champions Trophy 2025 for the first game, we look at the weather and pitch report.
Pak vs NZ Weather Report and Weather Report on Karachi – Match 1, ICC Champions Trophy 2025:
Pak vs NZ, Karachi’s Weather Report:
The forthcoming Pak vs NZ is planned to be played in Karachi and the weather forecast for the city is very promising. Pak vs NZ Match Day has a completely forecast for rainy in Karachi.
Thus, a full match will take place. The temperature will be hovering in the 20s and night.
Report on Pak vs NZ Pitch:
Behold, the statistics of the National Stadium, Karachi:
| Matches played | 56 |
| Winning matches by the house | 26 (46.43%) |
| Winning matches on the tourist side | 21 (37.50%) |
| Matches winning by neutral party | 7 (12.50%) |
| Matches first won batting | 26 (44.83%) |
| The matches won the second batting | 28 (48.28%) |
| The matches won victory | 23 (39.66%) |
| Won by throwing matches | 31 (53.45%) |
| The matches closed | 0 (0.00%) |
| Matches without results | 2 (3.57%) |
| The highest team shots | 374/4 (India) |
| The lowest team shots | 115 (Bangladesh) |
| The highest run was obtained | 355/4 (Pakistan) |
| Average run per wicket | 35.77 |
| Average run per head | 5.35 |
| First batting on average | 246 |
The surface of the national stadium in Gypsy is expected to be flat and will enjoy their time. This is the same space that Pakistan recently expected to be a high-level game of 353 runs against South Africa and the approaching Pak.
Odi Tri-Series, the second group of teams, both the game and teams, and teams will prefer the second bat in the next game. Dew will make it difficult for the bowlers to work in second shots and the top hand of the batsmen will be.
Conclusion:
ICC Champions are considered the first game cracking competition in Trophy 2025. Those who hosted Pakistan will be hopeless to start the defense of the winning note, and at the same time, they will also appear to revenge the recent losses against New Zealand.
On the other hand, New Zealand will take the most out of their forms and emphasize another defeat of Pakistan.
