The 2013 ICC Champions Trophy was the seventh ICC Champions Trophy, a

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tournament held in

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and

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between 6 and 23 June 2013.

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won the tournament for the second time by defeating

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:

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) and

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, known as Cardiff Wales Stadium for the tournament).

Match officials

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* Marais Erasmus * Ian Gould * Tony Hill * Richard Kettleborough * Nigel Llong * Bruce Oxenford * ~~Asad Rauf~~ * 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. ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

Group stage

Group A

* Advanced to knock-out stage ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

Group B

* Advanced to knock-out stage ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Final

Statistics

Batting

;Most runs

Bowling

;Most wickets

Controversy

David Warner was suspended by

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until the first Ashes Test after an altercation with English batsman

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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

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

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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

. 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.

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): * Shikhar Dhawan * Jonathan Trott * Kumar Sangakkara *

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* Mahendra Singh Dhoni ''(c & wk)'' * Ravindra Jadeja * Ryan McLaren * Bhuvneshwar Kumar * James Anderson * Mitchell McClenaghan *

''(12th man)''

Notes

References

External links

Official tournament site

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