Before the Champions Trophy, Aakash Chopra revealed Pakistan's biggest weakness
Just before the Champions Trophy 2025, former Indian player and commentator Aakash Chopra revealed the weakness of defending champion Pakistan.
The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is to start on Wednesday, February 19. Pakistan has decided to hold this edition of the event on a model that is part hybrid for the first time. India would play their games in Dubai while other games would be in Pakistan. Pakistan has been exposed by former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra before the Champions Trophy. Pakistan has difficulties in coping with pressure in accordance with Aakash as Pakistan was eliminated in the initial rounds of the last two ICC events due to their inability to handle it.
Aakash Chopra spoke of Pakistan's performance in recent ICC events in one of his videos on his YouTube channel. He expressed that Pakistan's weak point is not its weak point now but has remained its weak point throughout. They may be defending Champions Trophy winners but actually get bogged down by situations of pressure. They have even lost to the USA in their recent ICC event T20 World Cup 2024 and didn't even reach the second round.
Aakash Chopra further said that the Pakistan team definitely reached the final in the T20 World Cup 2022, but was completely missing in the 2023 ODI World Cup. So this is a team that just crumbles under pressure. Completely disappears. So you have to agree that this is one of Pakistan's weaknesses.
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In fact, Pakistan's performance in recent ICC events has been inconsistent. They suffered an unexpected defeat against the USA during the group stage of the 2024 T20 World Cup, which also made them miss out on reaching the Super Eight. At the same time, in the 2023 ODI World Cup, they missed out on making it to the semi-finals, as New Zealand secured the final berth.
The upcoming Champions Trophy will be staged in three cities of Pakistan and Dubai from February 19. Pakistan enters the Champions Trophy as defending champions having won the Champions Trophy in 2017 by defeating India in the final. Pakistan hopes to resolve their pressure concerns in this edition by defending their title at the ICC Champions Trophy.
