HISTORY OF THE ICC Champions Trophy

The ICC Champions Trophy has undergone numerous changes in its short 8-year history.


First known as the ICC Knockout, it has often been referred to as the mini-world cup. Since its inception in 1998, this tournament has generated much excitement because of its intense play among the world's best sides in a relatively short period. The ICC Knockout name continued in 1998, but was changed for the first time in 2002 to its current name, ICC Champions Trophy.


This year's tournament will feature a new competition format. The eight teams in the tournament are made up of the top 6 sides in the LG ICC ODI Championship Table as of April 1, 2006 plus two qualifiers from a preliminary round. The top six teams are: Australia (1), South Africa (2), India (3), Pakistan (4), New Zealand (5) and England (6). Sri Lanka (7), West Indies (8), Zimbabwe (9) and Bangladesh (10) will battle each other for the right to advance to the next round.


Start of play for the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy is October 7.


Tournament History
Year/Tournament - Site - Champion

1998 ICC Knockout - Dhaka - South Africa def West Indies
2000 ICC Knockout - Nairobi - New Zealand def India
2002 ICC Champions Trophy - Colombo No result due to rain - Sri Lanka/India
2004 ICC Champions Trophy - England West Indies def England
2006 ICC Champions Trophy - India - nil

Visit the official website of ICC Champions Trophy - iccchampionstrophy.indya.com

• iccchampionstrophy.indya.com will be the only website that will allow internet users access to audio and video packages on the championship trophy series to consumers globally. The country specific packages that allow internet subscribers to buy into a match pack that will give them access to some rich archives from previous championship trophy games, live clips of the ongoing matches and deferred live highlight packages. In many markets, the website would stream the matches LIVE.
• iccchampionstrophy.indya.com will have a unique feature rich application called "Matchcast" that allows users to view the LIVE scores, ball-by-ball updates of ongoing matches, player profiles, team profiles and many more. This application would be served out at no cost to cricket lovers on the internet.
• Archival facilities provided for the series will be a cricket enthusiast's bible that one can refer to for statistics, history, videos, profiles of teams, players and officials at the click of a button.

To get the schedule of ICC Champions Trophy, click here.