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Pakistan opens Champions Trophy with low-key ceremony

Pakistan opens Champions Trophy with low-key ceremony

Lahore, Feb 17 (UNI) With participating teams absent, some members of Pakistan’s victorious 2017 squad provided the star power as the opening ceremony of this year’s ICC Champions Trophy was held at the Deewan-e-Aam of the historical Lahore Fort on Sunday.
Hosts Pakistan go into the February 19 to March 9 tournament as defending champions after the International Cricket Council had decided to do away with the tournament before finding a space
for it back in the calendar, the Dawn reported.

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