The 2013 ICC Champions Trophy was a One Day International cricket tournament held in England and Wales between 6 and 23 June 2013.[1] Three cities hosted the tournament's matches: London (at The Oval), Birmingham (at Edgbaston) and Cardiff (at the SWALEC Stadium, known as Cardiff Wales Stadium for the tournament).
India won the competition, beating England by five runs in the final after overcoming South Africa, the West Indies and Pakistan in the group stage, followed by a semi-final victory over Sri Lanka. As winners, India earned $2 million in prize money, the largest amount since the tournament's inception. It was due to be the seventh and final ICC Champions Trophy, to be replaced by the ICC World Test Championship in 2017,[2] but in January 2014, it was instead confirmed by the ICC that a Champions Trophy tournament would take place in 2017, with the proposed Test Championship being cancelled.[3]
Rules and regulations
The 2013 ICC Champions Trophy[4] 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.
Points system
| Results |
Points |
| Win | 2 points |
| Tie/No result | 1 point |
| Loss | 0 points |
Squads
Warm-up matches
The warm-up matches had rules that were slightly different from normal ODI matches, so they were not recognised as ODIs.
- A team could use up to 15 players in a match, but only 11 could bat or field in each innings.
- Batsmen could retire out without any injury.
Warm-up matches
- No toss.
- Rain and a wet outfield prevented any play.
- India won the toss and elected to field.
- West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
- Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- India won the toss and elected to bat.
Group stage
Group A
- England won the toss and elected to bat.
- Points: England 2, Australia 0
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
- Points: New Zealand 2, Sri Lanka 0
- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- Match abandoned due to rain.
- Points: Australia 1, New Zealand 1
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- Points: Sri Lanka 2, England 0
- New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain delayed start of play and reduced the match to 24 overs per side.
- Corey Anderson (NZ) made his ODI debut.
- Points: England 2, New Zealand 0
- As a result of this match, England qualified for the semi-finals.
- Australia won the toss and elected to field.
- Points: Sri Lanka 2, Australia 0
- As a result of this match, Sri Lanka qualified for the semi-finals.
Group B
- South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
- Points: India 2, South Africa 0
- West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
- The West Indies innings was delayed by rain.
- Points: West Indies 2, Pakistan 0
- South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
- Chris Morris (South Africa) made his ODI debut.
- Points: South Africa 2, Pakistan 0
- India won the toss and elected to field.
- Points: India 2, West Indies 0
- As a result of this match, India qualified for the semi-finals and Pakistan were eliminated.
- West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain delayed the start of play until 14:30 and reduced the match to 31 overs per team.
- Points: South Africa 1, West Indies 1
- South Africa qualified for the semi-finals due to better net run rate and West Indies were eliminated.
- India won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain during the Pakistan innings reduced the match to 40 overs per team.
- Further rain reduced the India innings to 22 overs, with a revised target of 102.
Knock-out stage
Semi-finals
- England won the toss and elected to field.
- England advanced to the final.
- India won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain delayed the start of play until 11:00.
- India advanced to the final.
Final
- England won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain delayed the start of play until 16:20 and reduced the match to 20 overs per side.
- India won the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy.
Statistics
Batting
- Most runs[5]
Bowling
- Most wickets[6]
Media coverage
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.[9]
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.[10]
Pitch invasion incident
The semi-final between India and Sri Lanka at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff saw individuals, possibly Tamil Youth activists,[11] running onto the pitch with flags of Tamil Eelam and banners protesting against the Sri Lankan team playing in the United Kingdom.[12] 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.[13]
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.[12] 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.[13]
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.[11][14][15]
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