ICC Champions Trophy 2025
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| ICC Champions Trophy |
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will host the ninth ICC Champions Trophy in 2025, a cricket competition for the eight best-ranked men's national teams in One Day International (ODI) competitions. Pakistan will host it from February 19, 2025, to March 9, 2025. The reigning champions are Pakistan, who took first place in the 2017 competition.
The International Cricket Council hosts a cricket competition every four years known as the ICC Champions Trophy, sometimes referred to as the "Mini World Cup" or just the "Champions Trophy". The Champions Trophy, a brief cricket competition, was created by the ICC and debuted in 1998 with the goal of raising money for the advancement of the sport in nations that do not play Test cricket. It is still remembered as one of the ICC competitions with a One Day International format, which is identical to another major cricket competition like the Cricket World Cup. One of the most watched sporting events in the world is the tournament.
History of ICC Champions Trophy.
In June 1998, Bangladesh hosted the inaugural Champions Trophy, following the Cricket World Cup, which had been going for 23 years and had six successful editions. In an effort to boost cricket's appeal in Bangladesh and Kenya, two ICC Associate members, the first two Champions Trophies were hosted there. The money raised was then used to advance cricket in both nations. In 1998, it was first presented as the ICC KnockOut Trophy. Prior to the 2002 edition, the competition was known as the ICC Champions Trophy.
Six ICC members have hosted at least one tournament match, with hosting being divided across nations under an unofficial rotation system starting with the 2002 competition. To select which countries go to the tournament phase in the present format, a qualification process is held during the previous Cricket World Cup. A spot in the World Cup is guaranteed for the top eight teams, including the Champions Trophy hosts. Thirteen teams have participated in all eight tournament editions; eight teams participated in the 2017 tournament. The event has been won twice by Australia and India, and once each by South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and Pakistan. To date, seven national teams have participated in every tournament edition. With their victory in the 2017 competition, which took place in England and Wales, Pakistan became the reigning champions. Pakistan will host the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy after that.
The competition has been organized in all ICC member countries since 2002, although there are now just eight teams participating. The competition, which featured every full member of the ICC and was thereafter termed the "mini-World Cup," was designed as a knock-out competition to keep it brief and avoid undermining the significance of the World Cup. Even though the tournament now follows a round-robin style starting in 2002 and concludes with a few knockout games, it still lasts for only a couple of weeks.
Over the years, the number of competing teams has changed; initially, all of the ICC's full members participated, and from 2000 to 2004, associate members were also included. Only the eight teams that were rated top in the ICC ODI Rankings as of six months before the event started have competed since 2009. Since its start, the competition has taken place in seven nations, with three of those countries being in England.
The Champions Trophy was awarded every two years until 2006. Due to security concerns, the tournament that was originally set to take place in Pakistan in 2008 was shifted to South Africa in 2009. It was held every four years after that, just as the World Cup.
After 2013 and 2017, there were proposals to discontinue the competition, and in 2021 there would be no tournament. It was, nevertheless, brought back in 2025.
Champions from 1998 to 2017
* 1998 South Africa Won ( ICC Knock Out Trophy )
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| South Africa 1998 |
* 2000 New Zealand Won ( ICC Knock Out Trophy )
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| New Zealand 2000 |
The 2000 tournament's matches were all held at Nairobi, Kenya's Gymkhana Club Ground. Along with Kenya, India, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh, and England in the finals, all the test-playing nations took part in the competition. After defeating India in the championship match, New Zealand emerged victorious. Sourav Ganguly, the Indian captain, scored the most runs in this competition with 348. With eight wickets, Venkatesh Prasad was the most successful. This was New Zealand's first victory in an ICC competition. It was also their first limited overs event to date and their only ICC trophy till 2021.
* 2002 India & Sri Lanka Won ( ICC Champions Trophy )
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| India & Sri Lanka 2002 |
The ten ICC Test-playing countries, including the recently admitted full members Bangladesh and Kenya (ODI status), as well as the 2001 ICC Trophy champions Netherlands, competed in the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, which was hosted in Sri Lanka. Rain caused the India vs. Sri Lanka match to be abandoned twice, ending in a draw. Before the rain prompted an interruption, India played two overs after Sri Lanka played 50 overs. India played eight overs and Sri Lanka played 50 overs again the following day. India and Sri Lanka were proclaimed joint victors in the end. There was no outcome after 110 overs between the sides. Muralitharan (10) got the most wickets in the competition, while Virender Sehwag (271) had the most runs.
* 2004 West Indies Won ( ICC Champions Trophy )
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| West Indies 2004 |
The ten ICC Test nations, Kenya, and the United States who qualified by winning the 2004 ICC Six Nations Challenge made their One Day International debuts at the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, which was hosted in England. Teams that dropped even one game during the group stage were eliminated from the competition, which was more akin to a knockout series. The top team from each of the four groups, including the 12 teams, advanced to the semifinals. In the opening semifinal, ENG overcame AUS to get to the ICC event final for the fourth time. The second semifinal match saw PAK lose to WI in a low-scoring match. With the assistance of wicketkeeper C Browne and tailender Ian Bradshaw, the WI squad captained by Lara prevailed in a close encounter.
* 2006 Australia Won (ICC Champions Trophy )
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| Australia 2006 & 2009 |
The final of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy was place in India on November 5, 2006. There was a change in format. Eight teams competed in the group stage: the top six teams from the ICC ODI Championship on April 1, 2006, plus two teams from a pre-tournament round robin qualification round selected from the other four Test-playing teams, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, West Indies, and Sri Lanka. Bangladesh and Zimbabwe were not qualified, but Sri Lanka and the West Indies were.
After that, the eight teams competed in a round robin format divided into two groups of four. South Africa and New Zealand advanced to the semifinals from Group B, while Australia and the West Indies did so from Group A. Australia and the West Indies advanced to the championship game after defeating South Africa and New Zealand, respectively. Australia won the trophy for the first time in the final, defeating the West Indies by eight wickets. The event was held in Mumbai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, and Mohali.
* 2009 Australia Won (ICC Champions Trophy )
Pakistan was chosen by the ICC in 2006 to host the 2008 ICC Champions Trophy. The 2008 ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan was canceled on August 24, 2008, and rescheduled for October 2009 due to reluctance on the part of some nations to travel there due to security concerns. There was, however, a great deal of doubt as to whether it would truly happen in 2009 because of the packed international schedule surrounding that period and worries about whether the security situation would have altered by then.
The ICC has recommended that the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy be relocated from Pakistan to South Africa, it was announced on March 16, 2009.
Cricket South Africa announced on April 2, 2009, that it will hold the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy from September 24 to October 5, 2009. The ICC recommended that Liberty Life Wanderers in Johannesburg and Supersport Park in Centurion serve as the host sites, and the Board accepted their suggestions.
ICC general manager of commercial Campbell Jamieson met with CSA CEO Gerald Majola to finalize the specifics of SA's hosting of the Champions Trophy. The locations of the six warm-up games, according to Majola, are Willowmoore Park in Benoni and Senwes Park in Potchefstroom.
In order to set up a final in which Australia defeated New Zealand by 6 wickets in 45.2 overs, Australia defeated England by 9 wickets in the first semi-final and New Zealand by 5 wickets in the second.
* 2013 India Won (ICC Champions Trophy )
The Champions Trophy was held in 2013 in England and Wales. The only nation to host the Champions Trophy twice was England. Australia and New Zealand were eliminated from Group A after both teams were unable to win a single game in their group. Along with the West Indies, Pakistan was eliminated from Group B after losing all three of their matches. Group A's South Africa and India, and Group B's England and Sri Lanka advanced to the semifinals.
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| India 2013 |
The final between India and England took place on June 23, 2013, after both teams easily defeated South Africa and Sri Lanka in their separate matches. India won tiheir second title at Edgbaston, defeating England by 5 runs. Their previous trophy, from 2002, was shared with Sri Lanka because the final washed out. As the player with the most wickets taken in the competition, Ravindra Jadeja was named man of the match and awarded the "Golden Ball". In addition to being named Man of the Series for his consistently excellent performances, Shikhar Dhawan was awarded the "Golden Bat" for scoring the most runs during the series. After winning the Champions Trophy this year, the World T20 in 2007 and the World Cup in 2011, MS Dhoni made history as the first captain to win all three major ICC titles.
* 2017 Pakistan Won (ICC Champions Trophy )
The ICC declared prior to the 2013 Champions Trophy that it would be the final one, and that a new ICC World Test Championship will take its place in the cricket calendar. Due to the tremendous success of the 2013 edition, the ICC confirmed in January 2014 that the 2017 Champions Trophy competition will take place, while the intended Test Championship was canceled. Wales and England served as the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy hosts. Not only was England the only nation to have hosted the Champions Trophy three times, but it was also the only nation to have hosted the ICC Champions Trophy back-to-back in 2013 along with Wales.
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| Pakistan 2017 |
On the cut-off date, Bangladesh overtook the West Indies in the ICC ODI Team Rankings, with the latter finishing outside the top eight in ninth place. For the first time since 2006, Bangladesh was back at the ICC Champions Trophy, and the West Indies, who had won the competition in 2004, could not make it through.
The Oval in London hosted the tournament final between arch-rivals Pakistan and defending champions India, which had not faced one other since 2007. It was Pakistan's first time participating in a Champions Trophy final and India's fourth.Pakistan easily defeated India by 180 runs, dominating them in all three areas of the game bowling, batting, and fielding in contrast to their group stage matchup, in which India had defeated Pakistan by a significant margin. Pakistan, the team with the lowest ranking in the competition, became the seventh country to win the Champions Trophy when they claimed their maiden victory. With 114 points, Pakistan's Fakhar Zaman was named Man of the Match. After collecting 338 runs, India's Shikhar Dhawan was named the "Golden Bat" and became the first and only hitter to win two Golden Bats in the ICC Champions Trophy, as well as two Golden Bats in a row (he also won it in 2013). After collecting 13 wickets, Pakistan's Hasan Ali was named the "Golden Ball" and was named Man of the Series for his exceptional role in helping his team win their first ICC title since the 2009 T20 World Cup.
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