2013 ICC Champions Trophy

The 2013 ICC Champions Trophy was the seventh ICC Champions Trophy, a One Day International cricket tournament held in England and Wales between 6 and 23 June 2013. India won the tournament for the second time by defeating England in the final by 5 runs.

India received $2 million as prize money for winning the tournament, the largest amount since the tournament's inception. It was due to be the final ICC Champions Trophy, to be replaced by the ICC World Test Championship in 2017, 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.

Qualification

As hosts, England qualified for the competition automatically; they were joined by the seven other highest-ranked teams in the ICC ODI Championship as of 21 August 2012.

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.

Points system

Venues

Three cities hosted the tournament's matches: London (at The Oval), Birmingham (at Edgbaston) and Cardiff (at Sophia Gardens, known as Cardiff Wales Stadium for the tournament).

Match officials

Source:

The match referees’ responsibilities throughout the men's tournament were shared between three members of the Elite Panel of ICC Referees :

• England Chris Broad
• Zimbabwe Andy Pycroft
• India Javagal Srinath

The on-field responsibilities for officiating the men's tournament were shared between 12 members of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires:

• New Zealand Billy Bowden
• Pakistan Aleem Dar
• Sri Lanka Kumar Dharmasena
• Australia Steve Davis
• South Africa Marais Erasmus
• England Ian Gould
• New Zealand Tony Hill
• England Richard Kettleborough
• England Nigel Llong
• Australia Bruce Oxenford
• Pakistan Asad Rauf
• Australia Rod Tucker

Squads

Warm-up matches

The warm-up matches had rules that were slightly different from normal ODI matches, so they are 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.

• 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

• Advanced to knock-out stage

• 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

• Advanced to knock-out stage

• 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 (SA) 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.
• The match was reduced to 31 overs per side due to rain.
• West Indies innings curtailed at 26.1 overs due to rain; DLS par score was 191.
• 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 Pakistan's innings reduced the match to 40 overs per side.
• Further rain reduced India's innings to 22 overs, with a revised target of 102.
• Points: India 2, Pakistan 0.

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

• England won the toss and elected to field.

• India won the toss and elected to field.

Final

• England won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to 20 overs per side due to rain.
• MS Dhoni (Ind) became the first captain to win T20 World Cup (2007), Cricket World Cup (2011) and ICC Champions Trophy (2013).

Statistics

Batting

Most runs

Bowling

Most wickets

Team of the Tournament

The team of the tournament was announced by ICC on 28 June 2013. It was selected by a five-person selection panel that comprised Geoff Allardice (ICC General Manager – Cricket, and Chairman Event Technical Committee), Javagal Srinath (former India fast bowler and ICC Emirates Elite Panel match referee), Aleem Dar (ICC Emirates Elite Panel umpire), Scyld Berry (Wisden Editor from 2008 to 2011 and Sunday Telegraph correspondent) and Stephen Brenkley (correspondent of The Independent and Independent On Sunday).

Team of the Tournament (in batting order):

• India Shikhar Dhawan
• England Jonathan Trott
• Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara
• India Virat Kohli
• Pakistan Misbah-ul-Haq
• India Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c & wk)
• India Ravindra Jadeja
• South Africa Ryan McLaren
• India Bhuvneshwar Kumar
• England James Anderson
• New Zealand Mitchell McClenaghan
• England Joe Root (12th man)

Controversy

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 Sophia Gardens in Cardiff saw individuals, possibly Tamil Youth activists, running onto the pitch with flags of 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.

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