The ICC Champions Trophy is an elite event for the top eight
nations in the ICC ODI Rankings. The event, formerly known as the ICC Knockout,
has been held six times.
Winners of the competition include South Africa (1998), New Zealand (2000), Sri
Lanka and India (2002), who were joint winners after the final was washed-out,
West Indies (2004) and Australia (2006 and 2009).
The Champions Trophy 2013 Tournament was a part of Future
Cricket Tour Programs (FTP) prepared by International Cricket Council (ICC). ICC
Champions Trophy 2013 was an international cricket Tournament that organized by
England. Champions Trophy 2013 was consist of 15 ODI matches that hosted by
England. The ICC Champions Trophy 2013 Tournament was ended on Jun 23, 2013. The
2013 ICC Champions Trophy contested by eight Test teams which have been
'seeded' and divided into two groups were A and B.
Group A
England
Sri Lanka
New Zealand
Australia
Group B
India
South Africa
West Indies
Pakistan
From Group A England and Sri Lanka took place in play offs and
from Group B India and South Africa took place in playoffs. In play offs England
beat South Africa by 7 wickets and in second play off India beat Sri Lanka by 8
wickets and got place in finals. In final India won the match and got ICC champions
trophy 2013.
Ravinder Jadega (India) won the Golden ball as he took highest
wickets 12 in the tournament.
Shikhar Dhawan was the player of the tournament with 363
runs.
Owing to the rush and frenzy of today’s fast-paced world,
cricket-world too has weaned away from the longer and sometimes duller 5 day
Test format and even the 1-Day format. With the T-20 game version, cricket, a
few years back, stumbled on a new and exciting avatar. And, then came the IPL –
the Indian Premier League! IPL is the instant cricket served to the impatient
and cricket-hungry!
Since its inception in the year 2008, IPL has witnessed a
phenomenal popularity all around the world. It has brought glamour, fame and
fortune (to the tune of millions) for the players and unparalleled
entertainment to the viewers. Brainchild of Mr. Lalit Modi, the controversial,
now-fallen visionary entrepreneur, IPL was the first sporting event to be
broadcast live in the history of YouTube.
This year, the Indian Premier League (IPL) in its 6th
edition was held from April 3 to May 26, with Kolkata Knight Riders, the
defending champions, hosted the opening ceremony at the Salt Lake Stadium. Kolkata
on April 2nd 2013. This year IPL had a new sponsor. DLF were the title sponsors
till last year, when their contract expired and they chose not to renew it.
Soft drink giant PepsiCo willingly filled in their shoes and their contract
will run through to 2017.
In IPL 2013 nine teams fought between each other for the tittle.
These were
Bangalore Royal Challengers
Chennai Super Kings
Deccan Chargers
Delhi Daredevils
Kings XI Punjab
Kolkata Knight Riders
Pune Warriors
Rajasthan Royals
Mumbai Indians
Sunrise Hyderabad
The season began on 3 April with the
defending champions the Kolkata Knight Riders defeating the Delhi Daredevils. Twice
runners-up the Royal Challengers Bangalore won six of their first eight matches
with a six-of-six home record. This was credited to good death-over bowling
from Vinay Kumar and prolific and quick run-scoring from captain Virat Kohli,
Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers. Twice champions the Chennai Super Kings are
similarly dominant, with good batting from captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni,
Michael Hussey and Suresh Raina and an all-round bowling attack.The Mumbai
Indians, who made playoff-stage appearances in each of the past three years,
were inconsistent with both batting and bowling. The Sunrisers Hyderabad
produced results contrary to the poor performance last season by their
predecessors the Deccan Chargers. With no stand-out individual batting performances,
Hyderabad managed to win five of their first seven matches. Rajasthan Royals
won matches with cohesive batting and bowling where different players would
deliver match-winning contributions. The Pune Warriors India and the Kings XI
Punjab continue their form from 2012.
In the second half of the season, Chennai
continued to be dominant and held their number-one position on the points table
while Mumbai, Rajasthan, Bangalore and Hyderabad were evenly matched as they
switched between the positions of second to fifth. Mumbai excelled to win seven
out of eight matches with improved bowling performances around Mitchell Johnson
and Pollard. Rajasthan were also strong and had four consecutive victories and
a perfect record at home. Bangalore's schedule had them play six consecutive
away matches, of which they could only win two due to their bowling attack
struggling on away surfaces and repeatedly failures to defend high scores.
Hyderabad's bowlers continued to perform while their batting was strengthened.
Bangalore and Hyderabad slowly fell behind Mumbai and Rajasthan in the points
table, allowing a chance for other teams.Delhi and Pune failed to recover from
their poor starts to the season and were the first to be eliminated from the
tournament, similar to their performances in 2011. Punjab's form deteriorated
as they faced teams at the top-half of the points table. Kolkata showed signs
of improvement as their bowlers limited the opposition to low scores but this
only lifted their position to sixth. With ten matches remaining in the group
stage, Chennai, Mumbai and Rajasthan were first to earn playoff stage berths
while a few losses by Bangalore and Hyderabad gave Kolkata and Punjab a slim
chance of competing for the final spot. Kolkata was eliminated after suffering an
upset at home by Pune. Punjab, despite finishing their season with three straight
wins, failed to catch up. The tie between Bangalore and Hyderabad came down to
the final match of the group stage, between Hyderabad and Kolkata. Hyderabad
won to place themselves narrowly ahead of Bangalore by one win and qualify. But
in final Mumbai won the match and took IPL 2013 title and Chennai become runner
up.
In cricket a record is made by one person or a team and
another day another person or team or same person or team break his record. But
many times some records are made that difficult to break, this post is related
to those records.
Batting
Odi (one day international)
Most career runs - 18,426 – by Sachin Tendulkar (India)
Highest individual scores – 216 – by Varinder Sehwag (India)
Highest career average - 57.21 – by Hashim Amla (South Africa)
Most centuries – 49 – by Sachin Tendulkar (India)
Best strike rates – 119.34 – by Andre Russell (West Indies)
Test Cricket
Most career runs -15,837 – by Sachin Tendulkar (India)
Highest individual score – 400* - by Brian Lara (West
Indies)
Highest career average – 99.94 – by Donald Bradman
(Australia)
Most centuries – 51 – by Sachin Tendulkar (India)
Most Test double centuries – 12 - by Donald Bradman
(Australia)
Bowling
Odi (one day international)
Most wickets – 350 – by Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri-Lanka)
Best innings figures – 8-19 – by Chaminda Vaas (Sri-Lanka)
Best career economy rate – 3.09 – by Joel Garner (West
Indies)
Most 5 wickets in an innings – 13 – by Waqar Younis
(Pakistan)
Test Cricket
Most wickets – 800 – by Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri-Lanka)
Best career average – 10.75 – by George Lohmann (England)
Most 5 wickets in an innings – 67- by Muttiah Muralitharan
(Sri-Lanka)
Most 10 wickets in a match – 22 - by Muttiah Muralitharan
(Sri-Lanka)
Fielding
Odi (one day international)
Most catches – 417 – by Adam Gilchrist (Australia)
