ICC Champions Trophy

Question · June 20, 2002, 3:21pm

**Day-Night Final for ICC Champions Trophy **

http://www.cricket.org/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2002/JUN/019974_IC C_20JUN2002.html

The final of September’s ICC Champions Trophy will be played as a day-night game at Colombo’s Premadasa stadium, the ICC confirmed today.

In all, nine of the tournament’s 15 matches will be day-night fixtures at Premadasa, adding variety and atmosphere to the tournament.

A revised match schedule includes minor changes to the original itinerary, and means that host country Sri Lanka will open the tournament with its game against Pakistan on Thursday, 12th September.

Each of the 12 competing nations will play two games in the Pool stage of the tournament between the 12th and 23rd September. The semi finals will take place on Wednesday 25th and Friday 27th, with the final scheduled for Sunday 29th September.

The revised match schedule is now as follows:

1 Thursday 12th September 2 Friday 13th September 3 Saturday 14th September India 4 Sunday 15th September 5 Monday 16th September 6 Tuesday 17th September 7 Wednesday 18th September 8 Thursday 19th September 9 Friday 20th September 10 Saturday 21st September 11 Sunday 22nd September 12 Monday 23rd September Tuesday 24th September 13 Wednesday 25th September Winner Pool 2 v Winner Pool 3
Thursday 26th September 14 Friday 27th September Winner Pool 1 v Winner Pool 4
Saturday 28th September 15 Sunday 29th September Final Winner Semi Final 1 v Monday 30th September Sri Lanka v Pakistan Premadasa (d/n) 1430
Sth Africa v West Indies SSC (d) 1000
v Zimbabwe Premadasa (d/n) 1430
Australia v New Zealand SSC (d) 1000
Sri Lanka v Holland Premadasa (d/n) 1430
West Indies v Kenya SSC (d) 1000
England v Zimbabwe Premadasa (d/n) 1430
Australia v Bangladesh SSC (d) 1000
Sth Africa v Kenya Premadasa (d/n) 1430
Pakistan v Holland SSC (d) 1000
England v India Premadasa (d/n) 1430
New Zealand v Bangladesh SSC (d) 1000
Rest Day
Semi Final 1 Premadasa (d/n) 1430
Reserve Day - Semi Final 1
Semi Final 2 Premadasa (d/n) 1430
Reserve Day - Semi Final 2
Premadasa (d/n) 1430
Winner Semi Final 2
Reserve Day - Final

There has been no change to the original four Pool allocations, which remain as:

Pool 1
Australia
Bangladesh
New Zealand

Pool 2
England
India
Zimbabwe

Pool 3
Kenya
South Africa
West Indies

Pool 4
Holland
Pakistan
Sri Lanka

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UMAIR316 · June 20, 2002, 3:28pm

Pakistan will beat the cr*p out of anyone who stands in their way to get to glory, either Srilanka or Australia.
Pakistan Zindabad

ehsan · June 20, 2002, 3:43pm

Umair, I think you have got carried away a bit too far based on the just concluded series. It was a great series victory but we still have got to prove much. Consistency is what we need and a few more series victories like that.

UMAIR316 · June 20, 2002, 3:51pm

Yes true that!
But very few teams in the past have beaten Australia in Australia and all of them in Aussie weakness but the commis said it themselves, this is the best Australian lineup so they must be good, anyone beating a team of that high class is not luck.
There is no question of consistency, Pakistan have proved everyone wrong by winning consistently.
there is no more inconsistency in pakistan, the TEAM which is inconsistent is Australia.
There used to be a time where Pakistan used to be inconsistent by winning every other Sharjah tournament against teams like Srilanka and India.

But you are right about Pakistan have to do more, especially in test arena where Aussies rule absolute, Pakistan is capable of annihlating Australia in test matches as well when the get their confidence up which they do now so watch out world champions.

When people say one day is a any team's game, that is totally false, it is 50 overs long and good team wins almost all the time and Australia have done that in the past but things are changing rapidly.

Not to forget that we were playing without our best spinner and great allrounder.
The question about inconsisency is no more.

Pakistan Ka matlab Kya?
La Illaha Illalah!
Hindustan Ka Matlab Kya?
Ham Ko kya, Bhatr mai Ja!

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Asif_k · June 20, 2002, 4:56pm

Thanks Ehsan, for saying that, If i had said the same thing, I would immidiately be called names.

Umair - Have you really read your Signature after each of your posts or at least given some thought to it ?

AK

Spock · June 20, 2002, 10:12pm

[quote]
Originally posted by ehsan:
Umair, I think you have got carried away a bit too far based on the just concluded series. It was a great series victory but we still have got to prove much. Consistency is what we need and a few more series victories like that.
[/quote]

What consistency yara? We have been so consistent since a long time now, remember those whitewashes? windies/lankans/kiwis and now the Aussies, what more can we ask? The only challenge is South Africa, but since Australia can beat South Africa every day, every week, and we just kicked their a$$, it wont be a problem knocking the Proteas out...

Umair, cool signature...

king_sal · June 20, 2002, 10:25pm

I live in the US and don't get to watch cricket but I think that Pakistan has a very strong chance of winning from what I have been reading on the internet.