Sunday, June 11, 2017

Is The 2017 ICC Cricket Champions Trophy The Last Millenial Tourney

Why the ICC Champions Trophy in its current format is a very Millenial thing. A big question also crops if the 8th ICC Trophy is its last? Will the 2017 ICC Trophy now pave way to an international test series going forward? These are the questions not known in the public domain?


With Virat Kohli winning the toss in a crucial game tonight with South Africa and bowling first, which means India will be given a role of a chaser. Will we finish just fine? We need to finish it off really well. 

When did ICC CHAMPIONS  trophy BEGIN?
Was googling Wikipedia and stumbled upon this phrase where it's described that the  ICC Champions Trophy is a one day international (ODI) cricket tournament and typically organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It is pretty prestigious in the sense that its only second in importance after the Cricket World Cup


Why ICC  CRICKET TOURNAMENT IS A MILLENIAL THING?

Two years before the Y2K, the year 1998, when I was in class 10th Dehradoon, that was the year when it was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out Tournament in 1998 (Bangladesh) and has been played approximately every two years since. Its name was changed to the Champions Trophy in 2002.


The Game Against the Proteas today at Oval.


Indians need not to be 'overexcited' and our captain ( a Millenial) Mr. Virat Kohli, the BBC
reports "India must keep their emotions under control in Sunday's decisive Champions Trophy match against South Africa, captain Virat Kohli has warned."

All the best India. 

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