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| Dates | 3 October – 15 October |
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| Administrator | International Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | One Day International |
| Tournament format | Knockout |
| Host | Kenya |
| Champions |  New Zealand (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  India |
| Participants | 11 |
| Matches | 10 |
| Most runs | Sourav Ganguly (348) |
| Most wickets | Venkatesh Prasad (8) |
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The2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy was the second edition of theOne Day International cricket tournament. Later renamed asICC Champions Trophy, it was held in Kenya (which helped to increase the popularity of cricket in Kenya).New Zealand were crowned champions and cashed the winner's cheque of US$250,000 with defeatingIndia in the finals. It was their first win in a major ICC tournament.Zaheer Khan,Yuvraj Singh andMarlon 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.
3 October 2000 Scorecard |
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India won by 8 wickets Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi,Kenya Umpires:Steve Bucknor (WI) andDave Orchard (SA) Player of the match:Anil Kumble (Ind) |
4 October 2000 Scorecard |
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Sri Lanka won by 108 runs Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi,Kenya Umpires:Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (Ind) andPeter Willey (Eng) Player of the match:Avishka Gunawardene (SL) |
5 October 2000 Scorecard |
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England won by 8 wickets Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi,Kenya Umpires:Darrell Hair (Aus) andDave Orchard (SA) Player of the match:Alec Stewart (Eng) |
Theknockout 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 to1999 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 to1999 Cricket World Cup seedings.
Of the eight teams entering the stage, the team which was ranked 1st according to1999 Cricket World Cup seedings play the winner of pre-quarter-final 1 while the team which was ranked 2nd according to1999 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.
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 8 October –Nairobi,Kenya | ||||||||||
 Sri Lanka | 194 | |||||||||
| 11 October –Nairobi,Kenya | ||||||||||
 Pakistan | 195/1 | |||||||||
| Pakistan | 252 | |||||||||
| 9 October –Nairobi,Kenya | ||||||||||
| New Zealand | 255/6 | |||||||||
| New Zealand | 265/7 | |||||||||
| 15 October –Nairobi,Kenya | ||||||||||
 Zimbabwe | 201 | |||||||||
| New Zealand | 265/6 | |||||||||
| 7 October –Nairobi,Kenya | ||||||||||
| India | 264/6 | |||||||||
| India | 265/9 | |||||||||
| 13 October –Nairobi,Kenya | ||||||||||
 Australia | 245 | |||||||||
| India | 295/6 | |||||||||
| 10 October –Nairobi,Kenya | ||||||||||
 South Africa | 200 | |||||||||
 England | 182 | |||||||||
| South Africa | 184/2 | |||||||||
7 October 2000 Scorecard |
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India won by 20 runs Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi,Kenya Umpires:Steve Bucknor (WI) andDavid Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match:Yuvraj Singh (Ind) |
8 October 2000 Scorecard |
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Saeed Anwar 105 (134) |
Pakistan won by 9 wickets Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi,Kenya Umpires:Dave Orchard (SA) andPeter Willey (Eng) Player of the match:Saeed Anwar (Pak) |
9 October 2000 Scorecard |
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New Zealand won by 64 runs Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi,Kenya Umpires:Steve Bucknor (WI) andDavid Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match:Roger Twose (NZ) |
10 October 2000 Scorecard |
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South Africa won by 8 wickets Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi,Kenya Umpires:Darrell Hair (Aus) andSrinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (Ind) Player of the match:Jacques Kallis (SA) |
11 October 2000 Scorecard |
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New Zealand won by 4 wickets Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi,Kenya Umpires:Dave Orchard (SA) andDavid Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match:Shayne O'Connor (NZ) |
13 October 2000 Scorecard |
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India won by 95 runs Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi,Kenya Umpires:Steve Bucknor (WI) andPeter Willey (Eng) Player of the match:Sourav Ganguly (Ind) |
The final of the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy took place on 15 October 2000 at theGymkhana Club Ground inNairobi,Kenya. It was played betweenIndia andNew Zealand.New Zealand won the final by four wickets to win their firstICC KnockOut Trophy, their first win at anICC event.[1]
New Zealand won the toss and elected to field. Indian openers gave a superb start to their team, and put a brilliant partnership of 141 and scoring the runs at the run rate of over 5 runs per over, but then, their middle could not take any advantage of the start given by their openers and finished the innings scoring 264 runs and losing 6 wickets in their allotted 50 overs.Sourav Ganguly's golden run in the tournament continued as he yet again scored a brilliant century scoring 117 runs from 130 balls. New Zealand innings yet again did not start well as they lost their 2 wickets inside 6 overs for the score of 37, and later reduced to 132/5 but then,Chris Cairns andChris Harris put a brilliant partnership of 122 runs which help them to win their first majorICC event and also their firstICC KnockOut Trophy title.[2]
15 October 2000 Scorecard |
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New Zealand won by 4 wickets Gymkhana Club Ground,Nairobi Umpires:Steve Bucknor (WI) andDavid Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match:Chris Cairns (NZ) |
