New Zealand vs India: ICC Knockout Trophy 2000, this day, that year

On this day October 15 back in 2000, New Zealand beat India in ICC Kckout Trophy, w kwn as ICC Champions Trophy, in Nairobi Kenya. tournament saw India impress in every game barring finals as y me ir way to finals, which y ultimately lost ultimately after being in a promising position and being better side for much of game.

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Journey to final

India beat hosts Kenya in pre-quarter-finals, beating Australia and South Africa along way to final. Yuvraj Singh and Sourav Ganguly le charge against Australia and South Africa respectively. latter scoring an unbeaten 141 against South Africa. New Zealand, on or hand, defeated Zimbabwe in quarter-finals, following a win over Pakistan in semi-finals. y topped it up with a win over India in finals. This was first and to date, only ICC event won by New Zealand. Roger Twose scored two fifties along way for Black Caps.

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game itself

New Zealand won toss and elected to field. Indian openers gave a superb start to ir team and put a brilliant partnership of 141, ir middle order, however, could t take any vant of start given by ir openers and finished innings scoring 264 runs and losing 6 wickets in ir 50 overs. Ganguly's golden run in tournament continued as he yet again scored a brilliant century scoring 117 runs from 130 balls. New Zealand innings yet again did t start well as y lost ir two wickets inside 6 overs for score of 37, and later reduced to 132/5 but n, Chris Cairns and Chris Harris put a brilliant partnership of 122 runs, which helped m to win ir first major ICC trophy. 

Ganguly finished series with 348 runs leing scoring charts while Pras took 8 wickets leing bowling charts.

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