ICC 2013 Champions Trophy cricket info:
The ICC Champions Trophy 2013 is a ODI cricket tournament held in England and Wales between 6 and 23 June 2013. Three cities will host the tournament's matches: London (at The Oval). Birmingham (at Edgbaston) and Cardiff (at Cardiff Wales Stadium). The winners of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 will earn $2,000,000 in prize money, the largest amount since the tournament's inception. It will be the seventh and finalICC Champions Trophy, as it is due to be replaced by the ICC World Test Championship in 2017.The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC),
second in importance only to theCricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out Tournament in 1998 and has been played approximately every two years since, its name changing 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
ICC 2013 Champions Trophy Indian Team Squad:
| No. | Players | Date of birth | ODIs | Batting | Bowling style | List A team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c& wk) | 7 July 1981 (aged 31) | 219 | Right | Right-arm medium |  Jharkhand |
| 99 | Ravichandran Ashwin | 17 September 1986 (aged 26) | 48 | Right | Right-arm off break | Tamil Nadu |
| 16 | Shikhar Dhawan | 5 December 1985 (aged 27) | 5 | Left | Right-arm off break | Delhi |
| 8 | Ravindra Jadeja | 6 December 1988 (aged 24) | 65 | Left | Slow left arm orthodox | Saurashtra |
| 19 | Dinesh Karthik | 1 June 1985 (aged 28) | 52 | Right | — | Tamil Nadu |
| 18 | Virat Kohli | 5 November 1988 (aged 24) | 98 | Right | Right-arm medium | Delhi |
| 15 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 5 February 1990 (aged 23) | 8 | Right | Right-arm medium | Uttar Pradesh |
| 23 | Vinay Kumar | 12 February 1984 (aged 29) | 22 | Right | Right-arm medium | Karnataka |
| — | Amit Mishra | 24 November 1982 (aged 30) | 15 | Right | Leg break | Haryana |
| 56 | Irfan Pathan | 27 October 1984 (aged 28) | 120 | Left | Left-arm medium-fast | Baroda |
| 3 | Suresh Raina | 27 November 1986 (aged 26) | 159 | Left | Right-arm off break | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1 | Ishant Sharma | 2 September 1988 (aged 24) | 55 | Right | Right-arm fast-medium | Delhi |
| 77 | Rohit Sharma | 30 April 1987 (aged 26) | 88 | Right | Right-arm off break | Mumbai |
| — | Murali Vijay | 1 April 1984 (aged 29) | 11 | Right | Right-arm off break | Tamil Nadu |
| 73 | Umesh Yadav | 25 October 1987 (aged 25) | 17 | Right | Right-arm fast-medium | Vidarbha |
ICC 2013 Champions Trophy Rules&Regulations:
The ICC Champions Trophy 2013 will be contested by eight teams that which are seeded and divided into 2 groups. Each team play every other team in its group once. Following the group stage, the top 2 teams from each group progresses to the semi-finals, where the winner of Group A plays the runner up of Group B (in the 1st semi-final) and the winner of Group B plays the runner up of Group A (in the 2nd semi-final). The winners of the semi-finals contest the Final.
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