ICC Champions Trophy: A flashback of the tournament

ICC Champions Trophy 2004

West Indies won the final despite going down to 147 for 8

The fourth edition of the tournament, played in England, carried a similar format as the last one and had 12 teams divided equally into four groups. This was the first time that the United States of America took part in the competition, pooled alongside Australia and New Zealand.

India and Pakistan, for the first time in Champions Trophy, were pooled together, with Kenya being the third team in their group. England, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe comprised of one group while West Indies, South Africa and Bangladesh were clubbed in one.

The presence of a number of minnows meant there were quite a few low-scoring affairs in the tournament, with the USA getting bowled out on 66 against Australia, Kenya were dismissed for 93 against Pakistan and Bangladesh for 93 against South Africa.

In arguably the biggest match of the tournament, India lost to Pakistan in a thrilling low-scoring encounter and bowed out of the tourney before the semifinals for the first time. South Africa as well failed to make it to the last four this time as West Indies trumped them by 5 wickets.

The first semifinal saw England defeat perennial rivals Australia by six wickets and reach their first ICC tournament final in a long time. West Indies, in the other last-four encounter, trounced Pakistan by seven wickets and make their second CT final.

England batted first in the final and despite Marcus Trescothick's century, posted a lowly 217 runs on the board. However, the Three Lions came out firing in the second innings and had one hand on the trophy after the Caribbean outfit was down to 147 for the loss of eight wickets.

Courtney Browne and Ian Bradshaw then rewrote history books as they added 71 runs in 91 balls for the ninth wicket to see their team through and win the prestigious competition for the first time.

Leading run-scorer: Marcus Trescothick (261 runs)

Leading wicket-taker: Andrew Flintoff (9 wickets)