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S. No	Tournament	Format	Details	Launch	Defending Champions
1	ICC World Cup	ODI	It’s played once in every 4 years. It has 4 stages, Super 8, 6, semifinals and finals. Next Tournament - 2019 (England, wales), 2023 (India)	1975	Australia
2	ICC Champions Trophy	ODI	It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out Tournament in 1998 and has been played approximately every four years since. Its name was changed to the Champions Trophy in 2002. Next Tournament - 2021 (India)	1998	Pakistan
3	ICC T20 World cup	T20	The event has generally been held every two years. Next Tournament - 2020 (Australia)	2007	West Indies
4	Ashes Trophy	TEST	It was played between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, their first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to "regain those ashes".	1882	Australia
5	Border Gavaskar Trophy	Test	It was played between India and Australia. The series is named after Australia's Allan Border and India's Sunil Gavaskar, who both scored over 10,000 Test runs in their career and captained their respective teams and were the original world record holders for most runs scored in Test match cricket.	1990	India
6	Commonwealth Bank series (Australian Tri series)	ODI (1979-2015) / T20 (From 2018)	Earlier at the beginning stage it was known as Benson and Hedges World Series.  Later Carlton and United then VB series and now it is known as CB series. It is an official Australian series held during the months of Dec and Jan-Feb. The event has generally been held every two years.	1979
7	Asia Cup	ODI and T20	the Asian Cricket Council was founded as a measure to promote goodwill between Asian countries. It was originally scheduled to be held every two years.	1984 , 2016	India
8	NatWest series	ODI	The original format of the NatWest Series was a three-team triangular tournament, involving England and two visiting international sides. Each of the three teams would play the other two three times each, after which the two top teams would face each other in a final at Lord's in London. The triangular format was abandoned in 2006	2000
9	Indian Premier League	T20	The Indian Premier League (IPL), officially Vivo Indian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during April and May of every year by teams representing Indian cities. The IPL is the most-attended cricket league in the world	2008	Mumbai Indians
10	Champions League Twenty20	T20	It was played between the top domestic teams from major cricketing nations. It was jointly owned by the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa. The 2014 Champions League Twenty20 was the last series of the tournament.