ICC Champions Trophy 2017 Who will Make it to the Finals?

The semi-finals of the ICC Champions Prize 2017 are due to begin on Wednesday. With the top four so heavily stacked with teams from the sub-continent, YouGov asked 833 residents of India and Pakistan that they thought would win the series.

While the relevance of the Champions Trophy is commonly questioned in this age of T20 cricket, the YouGov survey suggests a high level of interest with 82% of participants following the tournament, including 79% of female participants.

With fickle English weather condition playing no small part in the proceedings, the tournament has actually already caused a few distress with the departure of pre-tournament favourites Australia and South Africa, that 84% and 64% of participants respectively favoured to earn it to the leading 4. Bangladesh is the clear underdog, with only 8% of either Indians or Pakistanis having actually selected it to earn the semi-finals.

Indian residents picked India (96%), Australia (85%), South Africa (63%) and England (55%) as the top 4. Pakistan residents thought the leading four positions would certainly be Australia (83%), Pakistan (67%), India (65%) and South Africa (65%). With the top 4 teams now consisting of England, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh it is a blended result from what was being anticipated.

At the beginning of the series both Indian and Pakistani participants predicted a final between their very own team and Australia. While 77% of Indians assume that India will win the series in general, only 1 in 3 Pakistanis think that Pakistan will certainly win the Prize in 2017.