Pakistan Champions Trophy 2025 SWOT Analysis: The Pakistan Cricket Team will host an ICC tournament for the first time in 29 years. This team full of superstars of international cricket will head into the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 as the defending champions, having won the last edition in 2017 before this format was defunct and then brought back. While Pakistan might be quite inconsistent in recent times, this team has a chance to script their name in history. Will Pakistan be able to win an ICC tournament in front of their fans? What are Pakistan chances of winning CT 2025?
Firstly, we will look at the 15-man Pakistan squad for the upcoming tournament—
Mohammad Rizwan (C), Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Saud Shakeel, Kamran Ghulam, Salman Ali Agha, Tayyab Tahir, Faheem Ashraf, Khushdil Shah, Usman Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and Mohammad Hasnain.
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Pakistan Champions Trophy 2025 SWOT Analysis
Strengths
There are some clear and massive strengths with this team. Firstly, this Pakistan squad is filled to the brim with stars and match winners. The amount of world-class talent in this team is unreal. From Babar Azam to Shaheen Shah Afridi to captain Mohammad Rizwan, these are some of the most talented cricketers in world cricket in the past decade.
The Pakistan Cricket Team’s batting order is something to be reckoned with. Veterans like Babar, Rizwan, and the 2017 Champions Trophy final Player of the Match Fakhar Zamaan will be supported by great new talents like Saud Shakeel and Salman Ali Agha.
The pace attack of this side is, on paper, the best in this tournament. Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, and Mohammad Hanain have the ability to demolish any batting order in the world with pace and swing.
Finally, there is a good mix of veteran experience and young energy in this team; sometimes both of these are in the same player. Pacers Afridi and Naseem have been with the national team for years but are still in their early 20s. While the likes of Babar, Rizwan, Zaman, and Haris Rauf bring a lot of ICC tournament experience to this side.
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Weaknesses
This team also has a few weaknesses, most of which stem from inconsistency. Firstly, massive names like Babar Azam and Shaheen Afridi have not been in the best form across formats. The star bowlers like Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah are uber-talented, but they seem to have been exposed in international cricket, not looking the most effective in the past year or so.
The Pakistan bowling attack as a whole has been toothless for some time, especially at the batting haven at their home grounds in Pakistan. On the flatter pitches where the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be played, this team seems to lack the ability to stop the flow of runs. Couple that with them not being able to score quick and big runs like other teams in this competition, and this team might find themselves in a tough spot in more than a few matches.
Talking about injuries, the future superstar of Pakistani cricket, Saim Ayub did not even make the provisional squad due to injury. Haris Rauf suffered an injury in the recent tri-series but is expected to play in the Champions Trophy 2025.
Opportunities
The Pakistan Cricket Team has an opportunity to do something no Pakistan team has ever done: win an ICC tournament at home. This is the first time ICC is hosting a tournament in this country since the 1996 ODI World Cup. Every player in this team was obviously not playing back them and a lot of them weren’t even born yet.
Here is a team with the ability to win the Champions Trophy 2025, coming into the competition as the defending champions and playing in front of their fans. If it were the story of Pakistan cricket, winning this competition would be the perfect ending.
Threats
The threats to this side stem from the pitches they will be playing on. Since international cricket returned to Pakistan a few years back, the pitches on most grounds here have been flat as a highway. On such pitches, their talented but inconsistent bowlers will be in big trouble. If a side like India or England is unleashed on such a pitch in front of Pakistan, imagining scores of nearly 400 will not be too outlandish.
This team will also be threatened by the massive pressure of playing an ICC tournament at home for the first time in 29 years and the pressure of winning one at home for the first time.
Pakistann expected playing XI:
Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (C) (wk), Salman Ali Agha, Tayyab Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmed
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