[2] Twelve teams participated in the tournament: the ten Test-playing nations, along with Kenya, who held full One Day International (ODI) status, and the Netherlands, who were the winners of the 2001 ICC Trophy.

Twelve teams participated in the tournament: the ten Test-playing nations, along with Kenya, who held full One Day International (ODI) status, and the Netherlands, who were the winners of the 2001 ICC Trophy.

(Top 10) The total prize money for the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy was $1 million, and in addition, the 12 teams received $165,000 each for taking part in the tournament.

Sri Lanka won the match by eight wickets with Sanath Jayasuriya scoring his thirteenth ODI century.

[9] Australia, from the Pool 1, qualified for the semi-finals after defeating Bangladesh by nine wickets at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo.

[10] South Africa, who had defeated the West Indies in their opening match, made their place into the semi-finals from Pool 3 by winning over Kenya.

The first semi-final was played between India and South Africa on 25 September 2002 at the R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.

Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid scored 62, 59 and 49 runs respectively.

Aravinda de Silva, who was awarded Man of the Match, conceded only 16 runs in 10 overs and took Matthew Hayden's wicket.

Sri Lanka, in their innings, reached the target of 163 runs in 40 overs losing only three wickets.

[21][22]The 2002 ICC Champions Trophy Final was played on 29 and 30 September 2002 at the R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.

India scored 38 runs in 8.4 overs and the match was abandoned due to rain without result.

According to ICC rules, an ODI match is only official after 25 overs bowled to the side batting second.

[25] Former Indian wicket-keeper Farokh Engineer rejected the rule saying that it "doesn't make any sense".

[26] Another former Test cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar said that the ICC "should look at that rule straight away and change it", and the "obvious thing is to continue from where they left off".