ICC Champions Trophy 2008

International Cricket Council's Champions Trophy, also popularly known worldwide as the Mini World Cup cricket, the second One Day International cricket tournament Importance of the Cricket World Cup Tournament. The first tournament was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out tournament in 1998 and won every two years since. The name of the tournament was to change the Champions Trophy in 2002. Originally, all tenICC full members participated together with (for the first four competitions) two judges. As announced by ICC is from 2008, the eldest of eight ODI teams will be placed last six months, for the tournament.

ICC Champions Trophy is very popular and prestigious in all nations playing cricket. This year's Champions Trophy was to be decided in Pakistan from September 11 to 28 plays. Here are the nations participating in the2008 Champions Trophy tournament;

Group A
Australia (1), India (4), Pakistan (5), West Indies (8)

Group B
South Africa (2), New Zealand (3), Sri Lanka (6), England (7)

But with the growing terrorist related violence in Pakistan, including deadly suicide attack on the night of the Champions Cup Asia has cast a cloud on safety measures for carrying out such an important event in Pakistan.Rawalpindi, one of three sites to ICCborders of the tournament trophy, Islamabad, which killed 14 policemen and five civilians, and dozens were injured in the attack on Sunday. Cricket World leader Haroon Logart for "The ICC does not compromise the safety of everyone in one of its tournaments and if is not, then play appropriate, as in every country we do not. " said in a statement. In addition to players from Australia, New Zealand and England have expressed concern over playing in Pakistan expressed.

Currently, SriLanka is the designated alternative location, but with similar internal violence between Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces, with South Africa mentioned as a possible replacement.

In contrast, PCBs are very confident that the ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan will be held as a deadly explosion killed 19 people in Islamabad on Sunday, when the country hosted the Asia Cup final in Karachi. Shafqat Naghmi, PCB's chief operating officer, said: "The ICC wassupported us for the Champions Trophy and we are confident that this will continue to do so "

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