2013 ICC Champions Trophy

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: London (at The Oval), Birmingham (at Edgbaston) and Cardiff (at Sophia Gardens, known as Cardiff Wales Stadium for the tournament). == Match officials ==

Source: The match referees’ responsibilities throughout the men's tournament were shared between three members of the Elite Panel of ICC Referees : • Chris Broad • Andy Pycroft • Javagal Srinath The on-field responsibilities for officiating the men's tournament were shared between 12 members of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires: • Billy Bowden • Aleem Dar • Kumar Dharmasena • Steve Davis • Marais Erasmus • Ian Gould • Tony Hill • Richard Kettleborough • Nigel Llong • Bruce Oxenford • Asad Rauf • Rod Tucker ==Squads==

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 ---- Final ==Statistics==

Batting ;Most runs Bowling ;Most wickets 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 • Virat Kohli • Misbah-ul-Haq • Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c & wk) • Ravindra Jadeja • Ryan McLaren • Bhuvneshwar Kumar • James Anderson • Mitchell McClenaghan • Joe Root (12th man) ==Controversy==

David Warner was suspended by Cricket Australia until the first Ashes Test after an altercation with English batsman Joe Root 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 Sophia Gardens in Cardiff saw individuals, possibly Tamil Youth activists, running onto the pitch with flags of Tamil Eelam and banners protesting against the Sri Lankan team playing in the United Kingdom. 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. == Notes ==