ICC Champions Trophy 2006 Teams: Mini cricket World cup
The ICC Champions Trophy 2006 has teams from ten of the leading cricketing nations participating in the tournament. In short, the ICC Champions Trophy 2006 is nothing but a mini cricket world cup.
ICC Champions Trophy 2006 Qualifying Teams
In the ICC Champions trophy 2006, cricket nation teams that are ranked from seven to ten in the ICC Championship table will play an initial qualifying round, to decide the two top cricket teams to enter the main draw of the ICC Champions Trophy cricket tournament. For the ICC Champions trophy 2006, the qualifying teams are the West Indies,Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh
The list of the ICC Champions trophy 2006 qualifying teams includes West Indies and Sri Lanka,which seems rather strange,given the recent good performances of Sri Lanka and West Indies,against England and India respectively. However, the ICC Championship table computes the individual country points over a period of time and the West Indies and Sri Lanka teams are only now in the midst of a cricket revival.
ICC Champions trophy 2006 Main draw teams
The cricket teams from Australia,New Zealand,Pakistan,England,India and South Africa form the main draw of the ICC Champions trophy 2006. Two teams from the qualifying round of the ICC Champions Trophy 2006 will join the main draw. Based on current form,the ICC Champions trophy 2006 will have the Sri Lanka and West Indies cricket teams join the main draw.
ICC Champions trophy 2006 Main draw groups
The teams of the ICC Champions Trophy are divided into two groups- One group has India,England,Australia and one of the qualifying teams. The other ICC Champions trophy 2006 group has teams from Pakistan, New Zealand and South Africa.
All in All, the ICC Champions Trophy,2006 is expected to be an exciting affair- with the Australian cricket team being the favorites.
