ICC Champions Trophy

The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It is an elite event for the top eight nations in the ICC ODI Rankings. It is second biggest & important tournament of cricket in the world after Cricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out Tournament in 1998 and has been played approximately every two years since, its name was changed to the Champions Trophy in 2002. The number of teams competing has varied over the years; originally all the ICC's full members took part, and from 2000 to 2004 associate members were also involved. Since 2009, the tournament has only involved the eight highest-ranked ODI teams as of six months prior to the tournament. The ICC intends that the 2013 Champions Trophy will be the last, with its place in the cricketing calendar taken by a new ICC World Test Championship. However, speculation in the media says ICC may invoke their decision of discontinuing the champions trophy after getting good response in this years tournament.

Winners of the competition include South Africa (1998), New Zealand (2000), Sri Lanka and India (2002), who were joint winners after the final was washed-out, West Indies (2004) and Australia (2006 and 2009) India (again 2013).
The tournament has been staged in Bangladesh (1998), Kenya (2000), Sri Lanka (2002), England (2004), India (2006), South Africa (2009) and England & Wales (2013).

Format

The Champions Trophy differs from the World Cup in a number of ways. The Champions Trophy takes place every two years, while the World Cup is held every four years. The matches in the Champions Trophy are held over a period of around two weeks, while the World Cup can last for over a month. For 2002 and 2004, twelve teams played a round robin tournament in four pools of three, with the top team in each pool moving forward to the semi-final. A team would play only four games (two in the pool, semi-final and final) to win the tournament. In 2006, eight teams played in two pools of four, with the top two teams in each pool playing in the semi-finals. Losing even a single match would potentially mean elimination from the tournament.

The format used in the Knock Out tournaments differed from the formats used in the Champions Trophy. The competition was a straight knock out, with no pools and the loser in each game being eliminated. Only 8 games were played in 1998, and 10 games in 2000.

History

The Champions Trophy was the brainchild of Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was ICC president in the late 1990s. It had a dual aim of spreading the game to emerging nations and raising money for the ICC in between World Cups, thus enabling it to pump more cash into those fledgling cricket countries.

The first tournament, labelled as a mini World Cup, was staged in Dhaka in October 1998 and raised more than £10 million. The second, in Nairobi, was a commercial success although the crowds stayed away. By the time the 2002 event was held - and there was disquiet as it was so close to the World Cup five months later - the idea of playing in developing nations had been ditched (in fairness, options had already been exhausted) and as revenue-generation was the main raison d'etre, it needed to be in one of the main countries as this allowed the format to be expanded.

In 2004 the jamboree moved to England and it became clear the format of group games led to too many meaningless games. By the time the 2006 tournament in India came into view, the event was under fire from some quarters, and at one time there were even hints that India might decline to take part in 2008. They did not, but against the rapid growth of Twenty20, the Champions Trophy grew more unloved, other than by the money men, with each passing event.

1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket Format	One-Day International
Tournament Format	Knockout
Host/Venue	Bangladesh
Participants	9
No. of Matches	8
Champions	South Africa
Runners-up	West Indies
Man of the Series	Jacques Kallis
Most Runs	Philo Wallace (221)
Most Wickets	Jacques Kallis (8)

The 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy (officially known as Wills International Cup) was a One Day tournament held in Bangladesh. It was the first tournament apart from the World Cups to involve all test playing nations. Future editions of this tournament are now known as the ICC Champions Trophy. All matches were played at the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka, but the slow and low pitches produced some poor cricket. Severe flooding threatened to cause the whole show to be moved to India, and it only got the go-ahead at the 11th hour. As it was, Dhaka was the third choice after Disneyworld (Florida) and Sharjah. Some sides were less than enthusiastic about the whole venture - England got dispensation to send a virtual 2nd XI - but that was more than compensated for by massive crowds which flocked to games, even though Bangladesh weren't invited to their own party. The knock-out format, with eight matches compressed into nine days, fuelled the locals' excitement. South Africa won by beating West Indies in the final, although Wisden noted that "it was thus a tournament in which the winning really was less important than the taking part." However, not one journalist from either finalist attended the match.

International cricket

Teams

Australia
England
India
New Zealand
Pakistan
South Africa
Sri Lanka
West Indies
Zimbabwe

Results

	Preliminary Match

	24 October – Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
	Zimbabwe	258/7
	New Zealand	260/5

The next day, the main tournament got underway in a straight knock-out format

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

25 October – Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka

England	281/7
		30 October – Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
South Africa	283/4
		South Africa	240/7
26 October – Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
		Sri Lanka	132/10
New Zealand	188/10
				1 November – Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Sri Lanka	191/5
				South Africa	248/6
28 October – Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
				West Indies	245/10
India	307/8
		31 October – Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Australia	263/10
		India	242/6
29 October – Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
		West Indies	245/4
West Indies	289/9

Pakistan	259/9

2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket Format	One-Day International
Tournament Format	Knockout
Host/Venue	Kenya
Participants	8 (from11)
No. of Matches	10
Champions	New Zealand
Runners-up	India
Most Runs	Sourav Ganguly (348)
Most Wickets	Venkatesh Prasad (8)

The second event included Bangladesh - on the verge of joining the Test-playing countries - and hosts Kenya. In most respects, the second ICC Knockout, staged in Kenya, was a tremendous success. Like the 1996 World Cup, it threw up a parade of cavalier strokeplay, and a champion drawn from the ranks of cricket's underdogs. "New Zealand's never got to a final before, let alone won it," enthused a jubilant Chris Cairns, who overcame a knee injury to play the decisive innings - a majestic 102 not out - in the final. Yet the Black Caps' achievement was no breakthrough to a new era: their next 13 one-dayers produced 11 defeats and just one win.

In fact, the biggest strides were arguably made by India, the eventual runners-up, who defeated Australia and South Africa, the two favourites. Their captain, Sourav Ganguly, had an extraordinary tournament, scoring 348 runs at 116.00 and clearing the boundary 12 times. But it was the emergence of three dynamic debutants, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan and Vijay Dahiya, that really made India's fortnight.

Since the previous ICC Knockout - the mini World Cup played by the then nine Test nations in Dhaka two years earlier - Bangladesh and Kenya had joined the roll of entrants. They were knocked out in the first round, along with the fading West Indians. Sri Lanka's triumph over West Indies was short-lived, however, and they succumbed to Pakistan, who later lost their semi-final to New Zealand despite a second successive century from Saeed Anwar. Zimbabwe had just won a one-day series at home to New Zealand, but could not match them in the quarter-finals; England hiccuped after their successful summer, conceding 232 to Bangladesh and then scoring only 182 against South Africa.

Sachin Tendulkar hits Glenn McGrath for a six

If there had been a prize for the man of the tournament, Andy Atkinson, the former Warwickshire groundsman, would have deserved to win it. His stewardship transformed the Gymkhana Club's pitches, once notorious for their sluggishness, into strips of sprung steel. Their pace and bounce, coupled with Nairobi's thin air and short boundaries, helped produce some ballistic batting displays - especially from Ganguly, whose monumental straight hitting belied his slim shoulders.

The only sadness was the lack of local interest, and the suggestions of match-fixing that subsequently surfaced in the Anti-Corruption Unit's report to the ICC. While India's matches attracted decent numbers of ex-pats, indigenous Kenyans were noticeable by their absence throughout. Critics blamed high ticket prices (up to £20) and excessive bureaucracy. One thing was certain: the tournament should have done more to promote cricket in East Africa. It will take a fat slice of the $US13 million profit to make up for that.

Teams

Australia
England
India
New Zealand
Pakistan
South Africa
Sri Lanka
West Indies
Zimbabwe
Bangladesh
Kenya

Results

Pre-Quarter-Finals: October 3 – Kenya (208–9, 50 ov) lost to India (209–2, 42.3 ov) by 8 wickets.; October 4 – Sri Lanka (287–6, 50 ov) beat West Indies (179, 46.4 ov) by 108 runs.; October 5 – Bangladesh (232–8, 50 ov) lost to England (236–2, 43.5 ov) by 8 wickets.

Quarter Finals: October 7 – India (265–9, 50 ov) beat Australia (245, 46.4 ov) by 20 runs.; October 8 – Sri Lanka (194, 45.4 ov) lost to Pakistan (195–1, 43.2 ov) by 9 wickets.; October 9 – New Zealand (265–7, 50 ov) beat Zimbabwe 201 (42.2 ov) by 64 runs.; October 10 – England (182, 44.1 ov) lost to South Africa (184–2, 39.1 ov) by 8 wickets.
Semi Finals: October 11 – Pakistan (252, 49.2 ov) lost to New Zealand (255–6 , 49 ov) by 4 wickets.; October 13 – India (295–6, 50 ov) beat South Africa (200, 41 overs) by 95 runs.

Finals

October 15 – India (264–6, 50 ov) lost to New Zealand (265–6, 49.4 ov) by 4 wickets.

2002 ICC Champions Trophy

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket Format	One-Day International
Tournament Format	Round-robin
Host/Venue	Sri Lanka
Participants	12
No. of Matches	15
Champions	India / Sri Lanka
Runners-up	Joint Winner
Most Runs	Virendra Sehwag (271)
Most Wickets	Muttiah Muralitharan (10)

The 2002 ICC Champions Trophy was a cricket tournament that was held in Sri Lanka in 2002. It was the third edition of the ICC Champions Trophy (the first two having been known as the ICC Knock-out). The tournament was due to be held in India, but was switched to Sri Lanka when an exemption from tax in India was not granted.

The proximity of the World Cup, less than five months later, poor organization and a revised format that meant most group matches were all but pointless, took the sheen off the event, and more surprisingly the public stayed away despite low ticket prices. The pitches were slow and low - which was anything but good preparation for South Africa - and with the monsoon looming, the heat and humidity were intense. The ICC also decided to use the tournament to experiment with technology (Pakistan's Shoaib Malik became the first victim of an lbw decision deferred to the third umpire). While it was useful for lbws (where the only referral was whether the ball pitched outside leg stump) it proved almost useless for disputed catches. The ICC abandoned the trial soon after. Sri Lanka and India only sent full-strength sides after contract disputes were settled at the last minute, but Sri Lanka made it to the final after a popular win over an unpopular Australia.

Twelve teams competed: the 10 Test-playing nations plus Netherlands and Kenya. The teams were split into four pools of three teams each. Each team played the other two teams in its pool once, and the four teams that lead in each pool proceeded to the Semi Finals. The Final between India and Sri Lanka was washed out twice, to leave no result.

Teams

Australia
England
India
New Zealand
Pakistan
South Africa
Sri Lanka
West Indies
Zimbabwe
Bangladesh
Kenya
Netherlands

Group Matches

Sept 12 – Pakistan (200, 49.4 overs) lost to Sri Lanka (201/2, 36.1 overs) by 8 wickets.

Sept 13 – West Indies (238/8, 50 ov) lost to South Africa (242/8, 49 ov) by 2 wickets.

Sept 14 – India (288/6, 50 ov) beat Zimbabwe (274–8, 50 overs) by 14 runs.

Sept 15 – Australia (296/7, 50 ov) beat New Zealand (132, 26.2 overs) by 164 runs.

Sept 16 – Sri Lanka (292/6, 50 ov) beat Netherlands (86, 29.3 overs) by 206 runs.

Sept 17 – West Indies (261/6, 50 ov) beat Kenya (232, 49.1 overs) by 29 runs.

Sept 18 – England (298/8, 50 ov) beat Zimbabwe (190/9, 48 overs) by 108 runs.

Sept 19 – Bangladesh (129, 45.2 ov) lost to Australia (133/1, 20.4 ov) by 9 wickets.

Sept 20 – South Africa (316/5, 50 ov) beat Kenya (140, 46.5 overs) by 176 runs.

Sept 21 – Netherlands (136, 50 ov) lost to Pakistan (142/1, 16.2 ov) by 9 wickets.

Sept 22 – England (269/7, 50 ov) lost to India (271/2, 39.3 ov) by 8 wickets.

Sept 23 – New Zealand (244/9, 50 ov) beat Bangladesh (77, 19.3 overs) by 167 runs.

Knockout Matches

Semi-finals		Final

25 September 2002 Colombo, Sri Lanka
India	261/9
South Africa	251/6

		29 & 30 September 2002 Colombo, Sri Lanka
		India	Declared co-champs
		Sri Lanka	Declared co-champs



27 September 2002 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Australia	162
Sri Lanka	163/3

ICC Champions Trophy 2004

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket Format	One-Day International
Tournament Format	Round-robin
Host/Venue	England
Participants	12
No. of Matches	15
Champions	West Indies
Runners-up	England
Man of the series	Ramnaresh Sarwan
Most Runs	Marcus Trescothick (261)
Most Wickets	Andrew Flintoff (9)

The 2004 ICC Champions Trophy was held in England in September 2004. Twelve teams, comprising the ten Test nations, Kenya, and – making their One Day International debut – the United States. The ICC Champions Trophy was won by the West Indies in front of a sell-out Oval crowd.

It was more like a knockout series where teams if losing even one game at league stage are out of the tournament. 12 teams divided into 4 groups and table topper from each group played semi's. ENG defeated AUS in 1st semi-final to make it 4th appearance in final of an ICC event. Pakistan lose to WI in second semi final which was a low scoring game. In the final game WI team under Lara's leadership pulled off a tense match with the help of wicket keeper C Browne and tailender's Ian Bradshaw.

As night fell, literally and figuratively, on The Oval and the longest English season in history, the West Indian No. 10 Ian Bradshaw smacked a ball from Alex Wharf to the boundary backward of point to secure victory in the fourth Champions Trophy, the tournament that veers between being the second most important in world cricket and a ludicrous waste of time. The continuation with the format that had been so flawed in Sri Lanka did not help, and the inclusion of the USA - a ragbag of past-its and never-weres - just added to the feeling that this was a pointless exercise. Apart from the final and India's matches, attendances were again dire. "In keeping with the strained relations between the ICC and the hosts, the ECB, recriminations were muted but inevitable," wrote Matthew Engel. "It is not easy to apportion blame precisely for this fiasco, but between them the two governing bodies constituted a deadly combination." Those spectators not put off by high ticket prices, early starts and autumn weather experienced the ICC's ambush-marketing policing in its full glory as drinks and t-shirts were confiscated. The ridiculous nature of the corporate stranglehold was underlined by the fact that punters could not buy England shirts at club shops because their sponsors - Vodafone - were rivals of one of the official "partners". The final, which witnessed a remarkable comeback by West Indies to defeat England in almost pitch darkness, offered scant consolation after such a poor competition. "The main memories will be of cold and wet, of organisational disasters," Wisden concluded, "and of the general sense of a doomed competition that did cricket far more harm than good, all of which was obvious and avoidable". It was a triumph that seemed improbable at the start of the competition - West Indies were the rank outsiders of the eight serious contenders - and almost impossible an hour earlier, when Bradshaw joined Courtney Browne with 71 still needed. England were traded at 100 to 1 on by punters on the internet betting exchange Bet fair, i.e. a pound to a penny, and thus close to mathematical certainty. In cricket, that exists only after the game is over. No one (except someone suckered into that kind of bet) can have begrudged West Indies their success. Their players raced on to the field with a mixture of delight and astonishment that might not have been seen on this ground since their cricketing ancestors won the Test series 54 years earlier which foreshadowed the rise of West Indies as a power in the game.

It was a personal triumph for their captain Brian Lara, the man who had suffered most abuse during their recent decline. Three days earlier, he had been struck on the neck by Shoaib Akhtar in the semi-final at Southampton and his participation in the final was by no means certain. But he produced an inspired performance in the field.

It was a strange, and rather inappropriate, climax to a summer and a year characterised by the relentless pummeling Lara's team had received from England. But there were wider issues here. The whole Caribbean was in the grip of a particularly dire hurricane season, in which a succession of storms had wrought death and destruction across several of the islands; now once again cricket could fulfill

its historic destiny and bring the people of the region together in pride. The defeat maintained England's sorry record as the only member of the big eight (the Test-playing countries minus Zimbabwe and Bangladesh) never to win a global one-day tournament. West Indian cricket, however, was in greater need of this victory, at least as long as it did not kid their administrators into thinking the flabby complacency that has bedevilled the game there for a decade was now cured.

On the other hand, one couldn't help feeling that if West Indies were the answer, it must have been a damn silly question. The enthralling climax was entirely out of keeping with a terrible tournament that was ill-conceived and ill-executed in almost every particular. For sheer dreadfulness, the fourth Champions Trophy surpassed the third, which in Sri Lanka two years earlier had failed to produce a winner at all.

There were relatively few umpiring controversies. The innovation of wiring up umpires in some matches to the stump microphone made no obvious difference, and the decision to hand over calling of no-balls to the third umpire made no waves, though there were some signs of rebellion among the umpires themselves.

And of course, 15 cricket matches will produce happy memories that will linger: the joy of the West Indians at The Oval; Lara's effervescence in the field that day; the raw aggression of Shoaib Akhtar and Steve Harmison; the batting of Marcus Trescothick and Ramnaresh Sarwan; England's sudden realisation that they could and would beat Australia; the noise generated by the Indian and Pakistani spectators at Edgbaston; the enthusiasm of the young Zimbabweans and the all-round promise of young Elton Chigumbura, the one good thing yet to emerge from his country's trauma, cricketing and general.

Group Stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
Australia	2	2	0	4
New Zealand	2	1	1	2
United States	2	0	2	0

10 September 2004 Scorecard	New Zealand 347/4 (50 overs)	v	United States 137 (42.4 overs)	New Zealand won by 210 runs The Oval, London Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Nathan Astle (NZ)
	Nathan Astle 145* (151) Richard Staple 2/76 (10 overs)		Clayton Lambert 39 (84) Jacob Oram 5/36 (9.4 overs)
United States won the toss and elected to field. Aijaz Ali, Rohan Alexander, Jignesh Desai, Howard Johnson, Mark Johnson, Steve Massiah, Rashid Zia, Tony Reid, Leon Romero and Richard Staple (all USA) made their ODI debuts. Rashid Zia (USA) made his List A debut. Points: New Zealand 2, United States 0.

13 September 2004 Scorecard	United States 65 (24 overs)	v	Australia 66/1 (7.5 overs)	Australia won by 9 wickets Rose Bowl, Southampton Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Billy Bowden (NZ) Player of the match: Michael Kasprowicz (Aus)
	Steve Massiah 23 (42) Michael Kasprowicz 4/14 (7 overs)		Adam Gilchrist 24* (25) Howard Johnson 1/26 (3 overs)
Australia won the toss and elected to field. Donovan Blake and Nasir Javed (both USA) made their ODI debuts. Points: Australia 2, United States 0.

16 September 2004 Scorecard	New Zealand 198/9 (50 overs)	v	Australia 199/3 (37.2 overs)	Australia won by 7 wickets The Oval, London Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Andrew Symonds (Aus)
	Brendon McCullum 47 (68) Michael Kasprowicz 3/32 (10 overs)		Andrew Symonds 71* (47) Scott Styris 1/9 (2 overs)
Australia won the toss and elected to field. Points: Australia 2, New Zealand 0.

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
West Indies	2	2	0	4
South Africa	2	1	1	2
Bangladesh	2	0	2	0

12 September 2004 Scorecard	Bangladesh 93 (31.3 overs)	v	South Africa 94/1 (17.5 overs)	South Africa won by 9 wickets Edgbaston, Birmingham Umpires: Jeremy Lloyds (Eng) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Charl Langeveldt (SA)
	Nafees Iqbal 40 (59) Charl Langeveldt 3/17 (7 overs)		Graeme Smith 42* (52) Tapash Baisya 1/39 (6 overs)
Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat. Aftab Ahmed and Nazmul Hossain (both Ban) made their ODI debuts. Nazmul Hossain (Ban) made his List A debut. Points: South Africa 2, Bangladesh 0.

15 September 2004 Scorecard	West Indies 269/3 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 131 (39.3 overs)	West Indies won by 138 runs Rose Bowl, Southampton Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Jeremy Lloyds (Eng) Player of the match: Chris Gayle (WI)
	Chris Gayle 99 (132) Tapash Baisya 2/58 (10 overs)		Khaled Mahmud 34* (51) Mervyn Dillon 5/29 (10 overs)
Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field. Points: West Indies 2, Bangladesh 0

18–19 September 2004 Scorecard	South Africa 246/6 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 249/5 (48.5 overs)	West Indies won by 5 wickets The Oval, London Umpires: Jeremy Lloyds (Eng) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI)
	Herschelle Gibbs 101 (135) Chris Gayle 3/50 (10 overs)		Ramnaresh Sarwan 75 (99) Makhaya Ntini 2/26 (5 overs)
West Indies won the toss and elected to field. Rain meant that only 6 overs of the West Indies innings could be played; the remainder was played on the reserve day. Points: West Indies 2, South Africa 0

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
Pakistan	2	2	0	4
India	2	1	1	2
Kenya	2	0	2	0

11 September 2004 Scorecard	India 290/4 (50 overs)	v	Kenya 192/7 (50 overs)	India won by 98 runs Rose Bowl, Southampton Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)
	Sourav Ganguly 90 (124) Thomas Odoyo 2/43 (10 overs)		Morris Ouma 49 (93) Harbhajan Singh 3/33 (10 overs)
Kenya won the toss and elected to field. Ragheb Aga and Morris Ouma (both Ken) made their ODI debuts. Points: India 2, Kenya 0.

14–15 September 2004 Scorecard	Kenya 94 (32 overs)	v	Pakistan 95/3 (18.4 overs)	Pakistan won by 7 wickets Edgbaston, Birmingham Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Darrell Hair (Aus) Player of the match: Shahid Afridi (Pak)
	Kennedy Otieno 33 (73) Shahid Afridi 5/11 (6 overs)		Yasir Hameed 41 (48) Ragheb Aga 2/17 (4 overs)
Pakistan won the toss and elected to field. No play was possible on 14 September, so the reserve day had to be used. Malhar Patel (Ken) made his ODI debut. Points: Pakistan 2, Kenya 0.

19 September 2004 Scorecard	India 200 (49.5 overs)	v	Pakistan 201/7 (49.2 overs)	Pakistan won by 3 wickets Edgbaston, Birmingham Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (SA) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Yousuf Youhana (Pak)
	Rahul Dravid 67 (108) Naved-ul-Hasan 4/25 (9 overs)		Yousuf Youhana 81* (114) Irfan Pathan 3/34 (9 overs)
Pakistan won the toss and elected to field. Points: Pakistan 2, India 0

Group D

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
England	2	2	0	4
Sri Lanka	2	1	1	2
Zimbabwe	2	0	2	0

10–11 September 2004 Scorecard	England 299/7 (50 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 147 (39 overs)	England won by 152 runs Edgbaston, Birmingham Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Paul Collingwood (Eng)
	Paul Collingwood 80 (93) Ed Rainsford 2/43 (10 overs)		Elton Chigumbura 42* (47) Andrew Flintoff 3/11 (6 overs)
Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field. Rain meant that only 38 overs of the England innings could be played; the remainder was played on the reserve day. Points: England 2, Zimbabwe 0.

14 September 2004 Scorecard	Zimbabwe 191 (49.1 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 195/6 (43.5 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets The Oval, London Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Elton Chigumbura (Zim)
	Elton Chigumbura 57 (71) Nuwan Zoysa 3/19 (10 overs)		Marvan Atapattu 43 (80) Elton Chigumbura 3/37 (8.5 overs)
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field. Points: Sri Lanka 2, Zimbabwe 0

17–18 September 2004 Scorecard	England 251/7 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 95/5 (24 overs)	England won by 49 runs (D/L method) Rose Bowl, Southampton Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Darrell Hair (Aus) Player of the match: Andrew Flintoff (Eng)
	Andrew Flintoff 104 (91) Chaminda Vaas 2/51 (10 overs)		Sanath Jayasuriya 27 (32) Andrew Flintoff 2/21 (5 overs)
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field. Rain meant that only 32 overs of the England innings could be played; the remainder was played on the reserve day. Rain on the reserve day reduced Sri Lanka's innings to 24 overs, with a revised target of 145 runs. Points: England 2, Sri Lanka 0.

Knock-out stage

Semi-finals

21 September 2004 Scorecard	Australia 259/9 (50 overs)	v	England 262/4 (46.3 overs)	England won by 6 wickets Edgbaston, Birmingham Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Michael Vaughan (Eng)
	Damien Martyn 65 (91) Darren Gough 3/48 (7 overs)		Michael Vaughan 86 (122) Brett Lee 2/65 (8.3 overs)
England won the toss and elected to field.

22 September 2004 Scorecard	Pakistan 131 (38.2 overs)	v	West Indies 132/3 (28.1 overs)	West Indies won by 7 wickets Rose Bowl, Southampton Umpires: Darrell Hair (Aus) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI)
	Yasir Hameed 39 (56) Corey Collymore 2/24 (9 overs)		Ramnaresh Sarwan 56* (85) Shoaib Akhtar 2/18 (7 overs)
Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat. Salman Butt (Pak) made his ODI debut.

Final

25 September 2004 Scorecard	England 217 (49.4 overs)	v	West Indies 218/8 (48.5 overs)	West Indies won by 2 wickets The Oval, London Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (SA) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Ian Bradshaw (WI)
	Marcus Trescothick 104 (124) Wavell Hinds 3/24 (10 overs)		Shivnarine Chanderpaul 47 (66) Andrew Flintoff 3/38 (10 overs)
West Indies won the toss and elected to field.

2006 ICC Champions Trophy

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket Format	One-Day International
Tournament Format	Round-robin
Host/Venue	India
Participants	8
No. of Matches	15
Champions	Australia
Runners-up	West Indies
Man of the series	CH Gayle
Most Runs	Chris Gayle (474)
Most Wickets	J Taylor (13)

The eight teams were then split into two groups of four in a round robin competition. While Australia and West Indies qualified from Group A, South Africa and New Zealand qualified from Group B for the semifinals. Australia and West Indies reached the final defeating New Zealand and South Africa, respectively. The venues for the tournament were Mohali, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, and Mumbai.

The fifth edition, held five months before the World Cup, will be best remembered for Australia's eventual capturing of the one piece of silverware that had previously eluded them. High-priced tickets kept Indian fans away, Diwali season was also a distraction. Un-subcontinental pitches meant there was little cheer for the hosts as well as other teams from the subcontinent. With the termination of the monsoons just prior to the tournament, the pitches had not settled, and provided bounce and lateral movement - something the Australian bowlers, notably Nathan Bracken, Mitchell Johnson and Shane Watson - utilized to the hilt. In a way, the pitches provided more even contests between the bat and ball, as opposed to the batsman v batsman game that ODIs in India were threatening to become. "The one that New Zealand and South Africa played on in Mumbai was a real shocker, with the top coming off at the start of the second innings," noted Wisden. Though USA and Kenya did not feature from the previous tournament, a qualifying round meant the number of matches increased from 15 to 21. The steady performances of Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and West Indies took them to the semi-finals. Events in the lead-up to the final between Australia and West Indies were forgettable at best.

"The pitch problems jolted Raj Singh Dungarpur, the chairman of the Cricket Club of India, which owns the ground, so much that he offered to move the final to another venue," Wisden wrote. "The organizers were having none of that, though, and Andy Atkinson, the ICC's pitches consultant, was drafted in: he used polyvinyl acetate, an industrial adhesive, to bind the pitch together." Nonetheless, Australia's took the crown in style, winning by eight wickets under the D/L method. "Damien Martyn, who had batted so beautifully in the victories over England and India, once again played his part with a classy unbeaten 47, but it was Watson who ensured that the reserve day would not be needed as Australia's travelling support celebrated yet another triumph." A perfect shot in the arm before the Ashes, which they would go on to win 5-0.

2009 ICC Champions Trophy (Postponed from 2008)

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket Format	One-Day International
Tournament Format	Round-robin
Host/Venue	South Africa
Participants	8
No. of Matches	15
Champions	Australia
Runners-up	New Zealand
Man of the series	Ricky Ponting
Most Runs	Rick Ponting (288)
Most Wickets	Wayne Parnell (11)

Originally intended to be played in Pakistan in September 2008 but with several countries expressing major concerns over security there, the ICC was forced to postpone the tournament and then reschedule it a year later in South Africa.

While there were few genuinely nail-biting games, the quality of cricket was high and the consensus was that it had helped stem, if not reverse, the slide in the competition's credibility, although crowds were healthy only at select games; South Africa's games, the Pakistan-India tie and the Pakistan semi-final.

Australia successfully defended their title, beating New Zealand with something to spare in the final; New Zealand had upset the form book by defeating Pakistan in the semi-finals, aided by poor umpiring and dropped catches.

On 2 April 2009, Cricket South Africa confirmed that it would host the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy from 24 September to 5 October. The Board accepted recommendations from the ICC that Liberty Life Wanderers (Johannesburg) and Supersport Park (Centurion) be the host venues. The details of SA's hosting of the Champions Trophy were ironed out at a meeting between CSA's CEO Gerald Majola and ICC general manager – Commercial, Campbell Jamieson. Majola confirmed that the six warm-up games will be played at Benoni's Willowmoore Park, and Senwes Park in Potchefstroom.

Australia beat England by 9 wickets in the 1st semi-final, and New Zealand beat Pakistan by 5 wickets in the 2nd semi-final, to set up a final that saw Australia beat New Zealand by 6 wickets, in 45.2 overs.

2013 ICC Champions Trophy

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket Format	One-Day International
Tournament Format	Round-robin
Host/Venue	England & Wales
Participants	8
No. of Matches	15
Champions	India
Runners-up	England
Man of the series	Shikhar Dhawan (363)
Most Runs	Shikhar Dhawan (363)
Most Wickets	Ravindra Jadeja (12)

England and Wales hosted the 2013 Champions trophy. This was the last edition of the tournament. England became the only country to host the Champions Trophy twice. ICC World Test Championship has been postponed to 2017 at the earliest amidst earlier reports. India, Sri Lanka, South Africa and England qualified for the semi-final stage. India and England won their respective games comprehensively and the final between the two took place on 23 June 2013. India beat England by 5 runs at Edgbaston. Ravindra Jadeja was selected as the man of the match and he also received the "Golden Ball" for taking the most wickets. Shikhar Dhawan received the "Golden Bat" for scoring the most runs in the series and was also the man of the series for his outstanding performance. This was India's second time winning the trophy, after 2002. M S Dhoni became the first skipper to win all the major ICC trophies.

Rules and regulations

The 2013 ICC Champions Trophy was contested by eight teams, which were seeded and divided into two groups. Each team played every other team in its group once. Following the group stage, the top two teams from each group progressed to the semi-finals, where the winner of Group A played the runner-up of Group B and the winner of Group B played the runner-up of Group A.

Controversy

Australian David Warner was suspended by Cricket Australia until the first Ashes Test after an altercation with English batsman Joe Root following Australia's loss to England.

Former England captain Bob Willis accused one English cricketer of tampering with the ball in order to aid reverse swing during their match against Sri Lanka. Umpire Aleem Dar changed the ball midway through Sri Lanka's innings, but England coach Ashley Giles denied the accusations, saying that Dar changed the ball because it had gone out of shape.

Pitch invasion incident

The semi-final between India and Sri Lanka at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff saw individuals, possibly Tamil Youth activists, running onto the pitch with flags of the Tamil Eelam and banners protesting against the Sri Lankan team playing in the United Kingdom. The first invasion occurred in the 50th over of the Sri Lanka innings, but the two interlopers were soon overpowered by the security staff. However, the second invasion saw at least six protesters run onto the field from various angles from the River Taff End of the ground.

The protests continued after the match had finished, and a fight broke out outside the ground between protesters and supporters in a manner similar to the earlier protests at a group stage game at The Oval. Later, hundreds of members of Britain's Tamil community held up the Sri Lankan team bus after the encounter and raised anti-Sri Lankan government slogans. No protests were shown to the Indian team and their bus left as scheduled.

The earlier protest at The Oval allegedly saw several Tamils – including women, children and the elderly – being attacked and harassed by Sinhala cricket fans who were leaving the match.