Champions Trophy final reduced to 20 overs per side

BIRMINGHAM: The Champions Trophy final between England and India at Edgbaston was scheduled to start at 4.20 p.m. (8.20 pm PST) on Sunday after more than five hours play was lost to rain.

The match has been reduced to 20 overs a side and India will bat first after England captain Alastair Cook won the toss.

Both teams need to bat for 20 overs to constitute a match and, with no reserve day scheduled, the trophy will be shared if no result is possible.

The rain began to fall as the players sang the national anthems immediately before the scheduled start time of 10.30 a.m.

India named an unchanged team from their semi-final win over Sri Lanka while England recalled all-rounder Tim Bresnan in place of fast bowler Steven Finn.

Teams:
England - Alastair Cook (captain), Ian Bell, Jonathan Trott, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, James Tredwell, James Anderson.

India - Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (captain), Ravindra Jadeda, Ravichandran Aswin, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav.

Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and Rod Tucker (Australia).
(Reuters)