{"id":586,"date":"2013-06-03T14:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2013-06-07T06:44:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T06:44:14","slug":"icc-champions-trophy-2013-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/icc-champions-trophy-2013-fixtures\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Champions Trophy 2013 Fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally the long and tiring IPL season is over. However, it was spiced up with controversies, fixing scandals, arrests, some close matches and a fitting finale in which Mumbai finally laid down their hands on the \u2018not-so-coveted-anymore\u2019 IPL trophy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for some exciting cricket now as the top 8 teams of the world take part in the \u201cICC Champions Trophy 2013\u201d to be played in England. The tournament starts on 6<sup>th<\/sup> June with the finals being played on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> June. The tournament promises to provide 18 days of pure cricketing fun.<\/p>\n<p>The teams are divided into 2 pools. India, Pakistan, South Africa and West Indies are in the same pool. The other pool consists of Australia, England, South Africa and Sri Lanka. India plays South Africa on 6<sup>th<\/sup> June at Cardiff, Wales in the series opener. India takes on Pakistan on 15<sup>th<\/sup> June which is expected to ignite the old rivalry between the arch-rivals. Given the current form of the teams and the fast pace of the tournament there is no clear favorite, but the home conditions will definitely boost England. The complete list of the matches is as follows:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 564px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/fixtures.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"ICC Champions Trophy 2013 Fixtures\" alt=\"ICC Champions Trophy 2013 Fixtures\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/fixtures.png\" width=\"564\" height=\"592\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICC Champions Trophy 2013 Fixtures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to an exciting mini cricket world cup \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Finally the long and tiring IPL season is over. However, it was spiced up with controversies, fixing scandals, arrests, some close matches and a fitting finale in which Mumbai finally laid down their hands on the \u2018not-so-coveted-anymore\u2019 IPL trophy. It\u2019s time for some exciting cricket now as the top 8 teams of the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,8],"tags":[156,155],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","tag-cricket-fixtures","tag-icc-champions-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}