India has entered the final of the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The Men in blue will lock horns with New Zealand in the summit clash at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday.

India is playing all its matches of the mega event in Dubai. BCCI refused for India's visit to Pakistan, who are the hosts of the event, to play in the tournament due to strained political relationship with the neighbouring country. As a result, ICC was forced to prepare a hybrid model for the mega event.

However, several political experts are of the opinion that ICC is showing undue favour to India. As a result, India has capitalised on it to enter the summit clash.

Hafeez Backs India

In response, Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez quashed the chatter around India getting an undue advantage over other teams in ICC Champions Trophy 2025 as all their matches, including the knockouts, were played at the same venue (Dubai International Stadium). 

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Hafeez said it is a wrong notion that India receive favours from the ICC. In fact, they are the only team that plans to win ICC tournaments and backs it up with their performance, said the former all-rounder.
"The team that is playing to win is India. They plan to win ICC trophies. We talk a lot about them recovering favours. They are not getting any favours from anyone. Whatever they earn is because of the quality of cricket they are playing," said Hafeez.