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#2 England vs India (ICC Champions Trophy 2013 final)

Indian players celebrate after winning the ICC Champions Trophy 2013.

The final of ICC Champions Trophy 2013, took place on 23 June 2013 between two best teams of the tournament India and England at Edgabaston in a beautiful city of Birminigham.

Due to heavy rain the final was reduced to 20 overs of each. The contest was worthy of a final, as India put into bat by Alastair Cook, scored a modest 129/7 in the 20 overs on the back of 43 runs in 34 balls by Virat Kohli and a quickfire unbeaten 33 runs off just 25 balls by Ravindra Jadeja down the order. For England, part timer Ravi Bopara was the most successful bowler as he picked up 3 wickets for just 20 runs in his 4 overs.

Chasing the target of 130 to win the tournament on a turning pitch, England were reduced to 46/4 in 8.4 overs when England's bowling hero in the first innings Ravi Bopara came into bat. Bopara along with Eoin Morgan added 64 runs for the 5th wicket to bring England back in the game.

With England at 102/4 in 17 overs and still needing 28 runs to win the match, Indian skipper Dhoni in a rather surprising move brought Ishant Sharma who was having an off color game and had already conceded 27 runs in his 3 overs to bowl the crucial 18th over against the well set duo of Bopara and Morgan.

However, Dhoni's risk of giving Ishant the 18th over turned to be positive, as both Morgan and Bopara threw away their wickets of successive balls in the 18th over. Soon after the dismissal of Morgan and Bopara, Ravindra Jadeja dismissed England's last hope Jos Butler in the 19th over to leave England 15 runs to get off the last over to be bowled by R. Ashwin.

Despite conceding a boundary of the very first ball, Ashwin bounced back to concede just 5 runs of the next 5 balls as England fell short by a narrow margin of 5 runs. India lifted the ICC Champions for the second time in their cricketing history and along with that, MS Dhoni become the only player in the world to win all the ICC Trophies as a captain.

Brief Scores:

IND – 129/7 (20) – Virat Kohli 43(34), Ravindra Jadeja 33*(25), Ravi Bopara 3/20(4)

ENG – 124/8 (20) – Eoin Morgan 33(30), Ravi Bopara 30(25), R. Ashwin 1/15(4)

Man of the Match – Ravindra Jadeja