A constant topic of conversation throughout the 2025 Champions Trophy, and after, has been over India playing all their matches in Dubai. Australia fast bowling great Glenn McGrath has now stated that India won because they know how to play in spinning conditions and are generally better at ODI cricket than most teams and that playing in Dubai alone did not given them an advantage.
It is the way it is. India does not travel to Pakistan anymore. There was only one other thing — the matches had to be played in Dubai,” McGrath is quoted as saying by the Times of India. “You have to give credit to India, they played to the conditions. They know how to play on spinning tracks. I do not think that they had an unfair advantage. It is like saying there is an unfair advantage if India play all their matches in India, if Australia play all their matches in Australia.”