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CCI to host Champions Trophy final

March 18, 2006 12:25 IST

Big time cricket would return to Brabourne Stadium with Cricket Club of India being selected to host the final of the ICC Champions Trophy later this year.

The Mumbai club is now gearing up to host the summit clash and has decided to install floodlights as per ICC requirements, a top source in BCCI said on Saturday.

"CCI has been selected to host the final. They will install floodlights for hosting the final of the Champions Trophy one-day tournament," the source said.

Kolkata will not get to host any of the Champions Trophy matches with Ahmedabad's Motera Stadium set to take its place.

"Ahmedabad has replaced Kolkata as one of the four venues to host matches and an official confirmation would come after the International Cricket Council's Executive Board meeting in Dubai later this month," he said.

The BCCI office bearers had a meeting with the representatives of the ICC last evening and decided not to allot any matches of the tournament to the Eden Gardens following CAB's "unreasonable demands", according to BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi.

"They wanted to know which matches they would be hosting before deciding whether to do so or not and they also wanted to host matches only after October 23, implying they wanted to host only the semi-finals and final," Modi told reporters yesterday.

Kolkata's loss would be CCI's gain as Brabourne Stadium had stopped hosting international matches, barring a few ODIs once in a while, since 1972.

All the Tests and ODIs in Mumbai are held at Mumbai Cricket Association's Wankhede Stadium, a stone's throw away from the CCI.

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