do you forget? West Indies won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy by winning the final by 2 wickets at The Oval

Latest News :- This is a period when the popularity of the May Islands team declined. Despite being on his last legs, Brian Lara was still holding the reins of captaincy. The team included Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chanderpaul, Divine Bravo, Ricardo Powell and Wild King. There was a time when there were not many bowlers in bowling except Mervyn Dylan. Then the ICC Champions Trophy was organized in England. Australia and England clashed in the first semi-final in Birmingham.

Australia batted first under the leadership of Ricky Ponting and scored 259/9 runs. Michael Vaughan-led England scored 262/4 in 46.3 overs. Truscothick scored 81 off 88 balls, Michael Vaughan scored 81 and Andrew Strauss scored 52. Despite the excellent bowling of Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie, Fred Lee and Michael Kasprowicz in the Australian team, they could not do anything against England. The second semi-final was played between Pakistan and May Island in Southampton. In this, under the captaincy of Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistan team collapsed for 131 runs. Continuing to play, the May Isles team scored 132/3 in the 29th over and finally prepared themselves to face England.

But in this match, Shoaib Akhtar's fast and dangerous ball cannot be forgotten. Chris Gayle was out LB on 1 run. Wavell Hinds was bowled out by Akhtar himself for 5 runs. Sarwan scored 56 runs and Lara scored 31 runs before dismissing Shoaib Akhtar. Akhtar took 2 wickets for 18 runs in 7 overs. Today, on 25th September, West Indies finally faced England at the Oval.

Brian Lara won the toss and invited England to bat first. In conditions favorable for swing bowling, only Truscothick was able to maintain the lead as England's other batsman Brad Shaw lost wickets against Hinds and collapsed to 93/4 in the 23rd over. Bravo, Hinds kept England in check in the middle overs. If Driscoth had not scored 104 runs in 124 balls, West Indies would not have been able to reach 200 runs. This is Drescothick's 8th ODI century. But then they did not know that this was the 5th century of failure.

The fielding of West Indies is amazing. In particular, Laura took 3 catches and contributed in running out century man Druscothick. Laura's catch to dismiss dangerous all-rounder Andrew Flintoff for 3 was astonishing. Dives to the left of midwicket and takes a brilliant catch inches before the ball hits the ground. Let us also tell you that this was Lara's 100th ODI catch. 217 runs was a good number at that time on that pitch, and that too with Flintoff and Steve Harmison. Chris Gayle was dismissed by Harmison for 23, Andrew Flintoff, Ram Naresh Sarwan and Brian Lara were both dismissed by Harmison to dismiss Wavell Hinds. Falling to 80/5, Divine Bravo sent Flintoff to the dugout to the pavilion.

Only Shivnarayan Chandrapal MAE was holding on for dear life at one end of the islands wall. When he was out for the eighth wicket after scoring 47 runs, West Indies' score was 147/8. May Island needs 71 ​​runs in 16.2 overs to win. Courtney Brown and Ian Bradshaw join in. There were 7 overs left between Steve Harmison and Flintoff. England have almost started celebrating the Champions Trophy victory. Then a miracle happened.

Brown and Bradshaw performed brilliantly. Instead of playing the balls that needed to be played, he took slow singles and slowly built partnerships. Michael Vaughan was already a lexicon, an optimist, and he was a little careless, thinking that if Harmison came and dumped him, that would be the end of the story. Harmison came and bounced and bowled a yorker but Courtney Brown and Bradshaw could not break the resolve. Flintoff's 3 wickets in the first spell were nothing, or effective bowling by Brown and Bradshaw.

Darren Cuff was the weakest bowler of England at that time. He had already bowled 2 overs and given 15 runs. This was also his last ODI match. He had given 58 runs at the end of 10 overs. Michael Wan drank water while standing upside down. But no one could stop Courtney Brown and Bradshaw. Brown scored 35 not out, Brad Shaw scored 34 not out, the two together scored 71 runs and set a winning target of 218/8 in 48 overs, including May Isles captain Brian Lara, all players including Brown and Bradshaw. But they were piled up. Notably, under Laura's captaincy the May Islands have won the ICC Trophy since 1979.