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. 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.
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
| Steve Waugh Adam Gilchrist 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 Mark Alleyne Andy Caddick Mark Ealham Andrew Flintoff Ashley Giles Paul Grayson Darren Gough Matthew Hoggard Graeme Hick Vikram Solanki Alec Stewart Marcus Trescothick Graham Thorpe Coach: Duncan Fletcher | Sourav Ganguly Sachin Tendulkar Ajit Agarkar Hemang Badani Rahul Dravid Vinod Kambli Anil Kumble Sunil Joshi Robin Singh Yuvraj Singh Sridharan Sriram Venkatesh Prasad Vijay Dahiya Zaheer Khan Coach: Anshuman Gaekwad | Stephen Fleming Geoff Allott Nathan Astle Chris Cairns Chris Harris Craig McMillan Dion Nash Chris Nevin Adam Parore Craig Spearman Scott Styris Glen Sulzberger Roger Twose Paul Wiseman Coach: David Trist |
| Moin Khan 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 Mark Boucher 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 Marvan Atapattu Russel Arnold Upul Chandana Kumar Dharmasena Avishka Gunawardene Mahela Jayawardene R.Kaluwitharana ) Muttiah Muralitharan Kumar Sangakkara Eric Upashantha Chaminda Vaas P.Wickramasinghe Nuwan Zoysa Coach: Dav Whatmore | Heath Streak Guy Whittall Alistair Campbell Stuart Carlisle Andrew Flower ) 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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Knockout stage
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.