2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy

The 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy was the second edition of the One Day International cricket tournament. Later renamed as ICC Champions Trophy, it was held in Kenya (which helped to increase the popularity of cricket in Kenya). New Zealand were crowned champions and cashed the winner's cheque of US$250,000 with defeating India in the finals. It was their first win in a major ICC tournament. Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Marlon Samuels made their ODI debuts during the competition.

ICC KnockOut Trophy 2000
The 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy on display at the New Zealand Cricket Museum, Wellington.
Dates3 October – 15 October
Administrator(s)International Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Knockout
Host(s) Kenya
Champions New Zealand (1st title)
Runners-up India
Participants11
Matches10
Most runsIndia Sourav Ganguly (348)
Most wicketsIndia Venkatesh Prasad (8)
1998
2002

All the test playing nations participated in the tournament along with the leading Associates Bangladesh and hosts Kenya. As there were 11 teams taking part, three would miss out on a spot in the quarter-finals. Therefore, a playoff stage took place between six of the lowest ranked teams.

Squads

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  Australia   England   India   New Zealand
Steve Waugh (c)
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Michael Bevan
Jason Gillespie
Ian Harvey
Mark Higgs
Brett Lee
Shane Lee
Damien Martyn
Glenn McGrath
Ricky Ponting
Andrew Symonds
Mark Waugh
Bradley Young
Coach: John Buchanan
Nasser Hussain (c)
Mark Alleyne
Andy Caddick
Mark Ealham
Andrew Flintoff
Ashley Giles
Paul Grayson
Darren Gough
Matthew Hoggard
Graeme Hick
Vikram Solanki
Alec Stewart (wk)
Marcus Trescothick
Graham Thorpe
Coach: Duncan Fletcher
Sourav Ganguly (c)
Sachin Tendulkar
Ajit Agarkar
Hemang Badani
Rahul Dravid
Vinod Kambli
Anil Kumble
Sunil Joshi
Robin Singh
Yuvraj Singh
Sridharan Sriram
Venkatesh Prasad
Vijay Dahiya (wk)
Zaheer Khan
Coach: Anshuman Gaekwad
Stephen Fleming (c)
Geoff Allott
Nathan Astle
Chris Cairns
Chris Harris
Craig McMillan
Dion Nash
Chris Nevin
Adam Parore (wk)
Craig Spearman
Scott Styris
Glen Sulzberger
Roger Twose
Paul Wiseman
Coach: David Trist
  Pakistan   South Africa   Sri Lanka   Zimbabwe
Moin Khan (c / wk)
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Abdul Razzaq
Arshad Khan
Azhar Mahmood
Faisal Iqbal
Ijaz Ahmed
Imran Nazir
Saeed Anwar
Saleem Elahi
Saqlain Mushtaq
Waqar Younis
Wasim Akram
Yousuf Youhana
Coach: Javed Miandad
Shaun Pollock (c)
Mark Boucher (wk)
Shafiek Abrahams
Nicky Boje
Allan Donald
Boeta Dippenaar
Andrew Hall
Jacques Kallis
Gary Kirsten
Lance Klusener
Neil McKenzie
Makhaya Ntini
Jonty Rhodes
Roger Telemachus
Coach: Graham Ford
Sanath Jayasuriya (c)
Marvan Atapattu
Russel Arnold
Upul Chandana
Kumar Dharmasena
Avishka Gunawardene
Mahela Jayawardene
R.Kaluwitharana (wk))
Muttiah Muralitharan
Kumar Sangakkara
Eric Upashantha
Chaminda Vaas
P.Wickramasinghe
Nuwan Zoysa
Coach: Dav Whatmore
Heath Streak (c)
Guy Whittall
Alistair Campbell
Stuart Carlisle
Andrew Flower (wk))
Grant Flower
Pommie Mbangwa
Mluleki Nkala
Henry Olonga
Gavin Rennie
Paul Strang
Mark Vermeulen
Dirk Viljoen
Craig Wishart
Coach: Carl Rackemann

Pre-quarter-finals

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3 October 2000
Scorecard
Kenya  
208/9 (50 overs)
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  India
209/2 (42.3 overs)
Ravi Shah 60 (93)
Zaheer Khan 3/48 (10 overs)
Rahul Dravid 68 (87)
Maurice Odumbe 1/18 (4 overs)
India won by 8 wickets
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and Dave Orchard (SA)
Player of the match: Anil Kumble (Ind)

4 October 2000
Scorecard
Sri Lanka  
287/6 (50 overs)
v
  West Indies
179 (46.4 overs)
Avishka Gunawardene 132 (146)
Mervyn Dillon 2/46 (10 overs)
Laurie Williams 41 (59)
Nuwan Zoysa 3/34 (7 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 108 runs
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya
Umpires: Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (Ind) and Peter Willey (Eng)
Player of the match: Avishka Gunawardene (SL)
  • West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
  • Sri Lanka advanced to the quarter-finals.
  • Kerry Jeremy and Marlon Samuels (WI) both made their ODI debuts.

5 October 2000
Scorecard
Bangladesh  
232/8 (50 overs)
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  England
236/2 (43.5 overs)
Javed Omar 63 (84)
Mark Ealham 3/48 (10 overs)
Nasser Hussain 95 (120)
Mohammad Rafique 1/43 (10 overs)
England won by 8 wickets
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya
Umpires: Darrell Hair (Aus) and Dave Orchard (SA)
Player of the match: Alec Stewart (Eng)
  • Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
  • England advanced to the quarter-finals.

Knockout stage

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The knockout stage of the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, following the pre-quarter-finals, was held from 7 to 15 October 2000. The top 5 teams ranked according to 1999 Cricket World Cup seedings qualify for the knockout stage automatically. The remaining three teams qualify from the pre-quarter-finals, which was held from 3 to 5 October, between 6 of the lowest ranked teams according to 1999 Cricket World Cup seedings.

Of the eight teams entering the stage, the team which was ranked 1st according to 1999 Cricket World Cup seedings play the winner of pre-quarter-final 1 while the team which was ranked 2nd according to 1999 Cricket World Cup seedings play the winner of pre-quarter-final 2 and so on, in the format R1 v PQF 1, R2 v PQF 2, R3 v PQF 3 and R4 v R5.

Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand and Zimbabwe qualify for the knockout stage automatically, while India, Sri Lanka and England qualify from the pre-quarter-finals by beating Kenya, West Indies and Bangladesh respectively.

India, Pakistan, New Zealand and South Africa qualified for the semi-finals by beating Australia, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and England respectively. In the semi-finals, New Zealand beat Pakistan and India beat South Africa to qualify for the Finals.

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
8 October – Nairobi, Kenya
 
 
  Sri Lanka194
 
11 October – Nairobi, Kenya
 
  Pakistan195/1
 
  Pakistan252
 
9 October – Nairobi, Kenya
 
  New Zealand255/6
 
  New Zealand265/7
 
15 October – Nairobi, Kenya
 
  Zimbabwe201
 
  New Zealand265/6
 
7 October – Nairobi, Kenya
 
  India264/6
 
  India265/9
 
13 October – Nairobi, Kenya
 
  Australia245
 
  India295/6
 
10 October – Nairobi, Kenya
 
  South Africa200
 
  England182
 
 
  South Africa184/2
 

Quarter-finals

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Australia v India

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7 October 2000
Scorecard
India  
265/9 (50 overs)
v
  Australia
245 (46.4 overs)
Yuvraj Singh 84 (80)
Shane Lee 2/31 (10 overs)
Ricky Ponting 46 (59)
Zaheer Khan 2/40 (10 overs)
India won by 20 runs
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and David Shepherd (Eng)
Player of the match: Yuvraj Singh (Ind)
  • Australia won the toss and elected to field.
  • India advanced to the semi-finals.

Pakistan v Sri Lanka

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8 October 2000
Scorecard
Sri Lanka  
194 (45.4 overs)
v
  Pakistan
195/1 (43.2 overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya 39 (41)
Wasim Akram 3/40 (7.4 overs)
Saeed Anwar 105 (134)
Pakistan won by 9 wickets
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya
Umpires: Dave Orchard (SA) and Peter Willey (Eng)
Player of the match: Saeed Anwar (Pak)
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Pakistan advanced to the semi-finals.

New Zealand v Zimbabwe

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9 October 2000
Scorecard
New Zealand  
265/7 (50 overs)
v
  Zimbabwe
201 (42.2 overs)
Roger Twose 85 (111)
Henry Olonga 3/58 (9 overs)
Stuart Carlisle 67 (92)
Paul Wiseman 4/45 (9.2 overs)
New Zealand won by 64 runs
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and David Shepherd (Eng)
Player of the match: Roger Twose (NZ)
  • Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
  • New Zealand advanced to the semi-finals.

South Africa v England

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10 October 2000
Scorecard
England  
182 (44.1 overs)
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  South Africa
184/2 (39.1 overs)
Graeme Hick 65 (68)
Shaun Pollock 3/27 (9.1 overs)
Jacques Kallis 78 (110)
Craig White 1/40 (8.1 overs)
South Africa won by 8 wickets
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya
Umpires: Darrell Hair (Aus) and Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Player of the match: Jacques Kallis (SA)
  • England won the toss and elected to bat.
  • South Africa advanced to the semi-finals.
  • Paul Grayson (Eng) made his ODI debut.

Semi-finals

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New Zealand v Pakistan

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11 October 2000
Scorecard
Pakistan  
252 (49.2 overs)
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  New Zealand
255/6 (49 overs)
Saeed Anwar 104 (115)
Shayne O'Connor 5/46 (9.2 overs)
Roger Twose 87 (101)
Azhar Mahmood 4/65 (10 overs)
New Zealand won by 4 wickets
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya
Umpires: Dave Orchard (SA) and David Shepherd (Eng)
Player of the match: Shayne O'Connor (NZ)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
  • New Zealand advanced to the final.

India v South Africa

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13 October 2000
Scorecard
India  
295/6 (50 overs)
v
  South Africa
200 (41 overs)
Sourav Ganguly 141* (142)
Allan Donald 2/34 (10 overs)
Mark Boucher 60 (77)
Zaheer Khan 2/27 (5 overs)
India won by 95 runs
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and Peter Willey (Eng)
Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)
  • India won the toss and elected to bat.
  • India advanced to the final.

Final

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The final of the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy took place on 15 October 2000 at the Gymkhana Club Ground in Nairobi, Kenya. It was played between India and New Zealand. New Zealand won the final by four wickets to win their first ICC KnockOut Trophy, their first win at an ICC event.[1]

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New Zealand won the toss and elected to field. Indian openers gave a superb start to their team, and put a brilliant partnership of 141 and scoring the runs at the run rate of over 5 runs per over, but then, their middle could not take any advantage of the start given by their openers and finished the innings scoring 264 runs and losing 6 wickets in their allotted 50 overs. Sourav Ganguly's golden run in the tournament continued as he yet again scored a brilliant century scoring 117 runs from 130 balls. New Zealand innings yet again did not start well as they lost their 2 wickets inside 6 overs for the score of 37, and later reduced to 132/5 but then, Chris Cairns and Chris Harris put a brilliant partnership of 122 runs which help them to win their first major ICC event and also their first ICC KnockOut Trophy title.[2]

15 October 2000
Scorecard
India  
264/6 (50 overs)
v
  New Zealand
265/6 (49.4 overs)
Sourav Ganguly 117 (130)
Scott Styris 2/53 (10 overs)
Chris Cairns 102* (113)
Venkatesh Prasad 3/27 (7 overs)
New Zealand won by 4 wickets
Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and David Shepherd (Eng)
Player of the match: Chris Cairns (NZ)
  • New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
  • New Zealand won the 2000 ICC Knockout Trophy.

References

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  1. ^ Robinson, Peter (15 October 2000). "Cairns steers New Zealand to heroic victory over India in ICC KnockOut final". ESPN Cricinfo.
  2. ^ McConnell, Lynn (18 October 2000). "New Zealand sets itself a one-day trifecta". ESPN Cricinfo.
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