The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy is going to be an electric few weeks of ODI cricket from the best international sides in the world, and we can't wait. We've already seen big performances from the likes of New Zealand and India, and there's much more to come.

The skipper walks out to have a closer look at the pitch. This is surely not the deck on which India played against Bangladesh, which started to get slow in the second innings, very unlike your typical Dubai surface,