Bangladesh confirm final ICC Champions Trophy 2006 place

Bangladesh confirmed their place in October's ICC Champions Trophy in India with a 20-run victory over Kenya in Fatullah on Thursday.

Only sides in the top 10 of the LG ICC ODI Championship table on 1 April will take part in the tournament and the win by Habibul Bashar's side means they cannot be overtaken by the eleventh-placed Kenya ahead of the cut-off date.

Bangladesh will now play in the preliminary round alongside Sri Lanka, the West Indies and Zimbabwe.

The top two sides from that first, round-robin, stage will then go forward to join the top six sides from the LG ICC ODI Championship table in the second round of the tournament.

The only matter that now needs to be decided ahead of the announcement of the draw for the ICC Champions Trophy 2006 is the final placing of the teams in the top six spots in the table by the cut-off date as that will affect who they play.

India and England are currently fifth and sixth respectively in that table but could swap places if England win both matches between the two sides scheduled to take place before 1 April.

Details of the draw for the ICC Champions Trophy 2006 will be released in due course.

Full details of the current LG ICC ODI Championship and how future results will impact on the table, as well as the LG ICC Player Rankings can be found here