ICC Champions Trophy

Champion of the Champions

Season Team Runners up Host
1998 South Africa West Indies Bangladesh
2000 New Zealand India Kenya
2002 India & Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
2004 West Indies England England
2006 Australia West Indies India


Highest Total
4-347 by New Zealand Vs USA, The Oval, 2004
Lowest Total
65 by USA Vs Australia, Rose Bowl, 2004

Most Runs
695 by Chris Gayle, WI, 14 matches.
Highest score
145*, NJ Astle, New Zealand Vs USA, The Oval, 2004
Most Wickets
23 by M Muralitharan, Sri Lanka in 15 Matches.
Best Bowling
6/14, F Mahroof, Sri Lanka Vs West Indies, Brabourne (Mumbai), 2006.
Hat trick
J Taylor, West Indies Vs Australia, Brabourne (Mumbai), 2006
Most victims (W’keeper)
26 (22 ct+4 st), Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka in 13 Matches.
Most Catches
12 by Sourav Ganguly, India in 13 Matches.
Most Matches
18 by Brian Lara, West Indies.

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Gautam become GAMBHIR without Sehwag

Back in the national team after missing the tri-series in Sri Lanka, India's Gautam
Gambhir said his opening partner Virender Sehwag's absence will play in his mind.
Both have a tremendous rapport, both on and off the field. So he becomes GAMBHIR (Senicere).
Statistics shows Gambhir is not his usual self when Sehwag is not at the other end. In the Twenty20 World Cup in England this June, where Sehwag was out of fray, Gambhir could only manage 148 runs from five innings at an average of 29.60.
The Arjuna Award winner Gambhir has 2594 runs from 78 one-day matches with six hundreds and an average of 37.59.
In the ODI career Gautam Gambhir did open the innings for 51 times and 25 of them with his Delhi met Sehwag.
Both have added 1410 runs in these 25 matches @58.75 with four hundred and six half centuries stand.
There are 6 other batsmen with whom Gambhir opened the innings but never got similar success. He have added 148 runs with Sourav Ganguly (2 matches) and 146 runs with Sachin Tendulkar (12 matches).
Here are the details of Gambhir’s partners in ODI.

Partner Matches Runs Avg.

Virender Sehwag (25, 1410, 58.75)
Sourav Ganguly ( 2, 148, 74.00)
Sachin Tendulkar ( 12, 146, 12.17)
Robin Uthappa ( 3, 125, 41.67)
Virat Kohli (4, 121, 30.25)
Dinesh Karthik (3, 113, 37.67)
Rahul Dravid (1, 69, 69.00)
Irfan Pathan (1, 2, 2.00)

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Jacques Kallis has good chance

The one-day format has come under much flak recently, but it will get a huge shot at redemption over the next couple of weeks with the Champions Trophy to be held in South Africa from 22nd September with the host will play against Sri Lanka at Centurion.
The tournament will feature the best of the best teams, barring a weakened West Indian outfit; have a shot at the title.
But here we are talking about Jacques Kallis. Who is going for top position in both batting and bowling so far the records are concern.
Kallis has scored 564 runs in 14 Champions Trophy matches. Thus he requires another 133 runs to overtake 695 runs of Chris Gayle. As the West Indian opener is not in the Caribbean team. Only Sourav Ganguly (665) and S Chanderpaul (567) have scored more runs then Kallis.
Ganguly already called it a day from International cricket and two West Indians are not in the team, for the reasons other then cricket. So Kallis is favorite to go on top in the batting table.
South African can also become top wicket taker in the Champions Trophy as he has taken 19 wickets so far and Sri Lankan Muralitharan is on top with 23 wickets. However there will be fight between Kallis and Murali.

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