2004 ICC Champions Trophy

Qualification

Twelve teams participated in the tournament: the ten Test-playing nations, along with Kenya, who held full One Day International (ODI) status, and the United States who qualified after winning the 2004 ICC Six Nations Challenge.

Prize money

The total prize money for the tournament was $1.25 million, with $400,000 for the winners of the final which was an increase of $100,000 from the last time the tournament was held in 2002.

Tournament structure

Just like the previous tournament, teams were divided into pools and the first-placed teams of the respective pools at the end of pool stage would qualify to the knockout stage. The 12 teams— 10 Test playing nations (plus Kenya and United States)— were divided into four pools of three teams each, with every team playing two matches.

[[Australia national cricket team|Australia ]], New Zealand and United States were placed in Pool A. South Africa, West Indies and Bangladesh were placed in Pool B. Pakistan, India and Kenya were placed in Pool C while Sri Lanka, England and Zimbabwe were placed in Pool D. The semi finals were played between the winners of Pool A, Pool D and winners of Pool B and C.

Participating teams

Points system

Venues

Three cities hosted the tournament's matches: London (at The Oval), Birmingham (at Edgbaston) and Southampton (at Rose Bowl).

Match officials

Source:

; Match referees

• ENG Chris Broad
• WIN Clive Lloyd
• SRI Ranjan Madugalle
• RSA Mike Procter

; Umpires

• NZL Billy Bowden
• WIN Steve Bucknor
• PAK Aleem Dar
• WIN Billy Doctrove
• AUS Darrell Hair
• AUS Daryl Harper
• RSA Rudi Koertzen
• ENG Jeremy Lloyds
• ENG David Shepherd
• AUS Simon Taufel

Squads

Main article: 2004 ICC Champions Trophy squads

Pool matches

Pool A

• Rashid Zia (USA) made his List A debut.
• Points: New Zealand 2, United States 0.

• Points: Australia 2, United States 0.

Pool B

• Nazmul Hossain (Ban) made his List A debut.
• Points: South Africa 2, Bangladesh 0.

Pool C

• Points: India 2, Kenya 0.

• Points: Pakistan 2, Kenya 0.

Pool D

• Rain on the reserve day reduced Sri Lanka's innings to 24 overs, with a revised target of 145 runs.
• Points: England 2, Sri Lanka 0.

Knockout matches

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| RD1-seed1 = A1 | RD1-team1 = | RD1-score1 = 259/9 (50 overs) | RD1-seed2 = D1 | RD1-team2 = **** | RD1-score2 = 262/4 (46.3 overs)

| RD1-seed3 = C1 | RD1-team3 = | RD1-score3 = 131 (38.2 overs) | RD1-seed4 = B1 | RD1-team4 = **** | RD1-score4 = 132/3 (28.1 overs)

| RD2-seed1 = D1 | RD2-team2 = **** | RD2-score2 = 218/8 (48.5 overs) | RD2-seed2 = B1 | RD2-team1 = | RD2-score1 = 217 (49.4 overs)

Semi-finals

Final

Main article: 2004 ICC Champions Trophy final

• Ryan Hinds played his last ODI game.

Statistics

• Source: CricketArchive

• Source: CricketArchive

References

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