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The eight teams participating in the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy will comprise the top six teams in the LG ICC ODI Championship table on 1 April 2006 and the top two teams from the qualifying round of the ICC Champions Trophy 2006. The qualifying round will be a four-team round robin play-off for the following teams: Sri Lanka, West Indies, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.
All the 21 matches of the tournament will be day-night affairs and will be played across four venues: Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Mohali. Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad and PCA Ground in Mohali already have permanent floodlights while Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur and Brabourne in Mumbai are in the process of installing light towers.
The 2006 ICC Champions Trophy carries a winner's cheque of US $500,000 and the tournament has been granted tax exemption by the Government of India. The ICC expects that the tournament alone will generate US $65 million in funding for the Associate and Affiliate Members of the ICC.
