India vs South Africa Test Series

INDIA VS SOUTH AFRICA TEST SERIES in India, FEB 2010

India will play two-match Test series against South Africa at Nagpur and Kolkata, and also three one-day internationals during the tour starting February.

Australia Champions Trophy Winners 2009

Champions Trophy 2009

Champions Trophy, Final: Australia wins Champions Trophy 2009

Australia have have become the first team to win the ICC Champions Trophy title twice, beating New Zealand by six wickets in the final at SuperSport Park. Chasing New Zealand's 200/9, Opener Shane Watson hit his second successive unbeaten century (105) to guide defending champions to a six-wicket victory with 28 balls remaining.

Earlier, electing to bat, opener Martin Guptill (40), Neil Broom (37), James Franklin (33) and Aaron Redmond (26) were the only New Zealand bastmen to pass the 20-run mark.

Watson was named man of the match, Ponting the player of the tournament, while South Africa's Wayne Parnell was the leading wicket taker with 11 scalps.
Australia's players will now head home for a short break before they depart for India, where they will play seven one-dayers against Mahendra Singh Dhoni's side, while a number of the New Zealand team will travel to India to compete in the Champions League Twenty20 competition.

Australia 206/4 (Watson 105*, White 62, Mills 3-27) beat New Zealand 200/9 (Guptill 40, Hauritz 3-37, Lee 2-45) by six wickets

Champions Trophy, First Semifinal: Australia crush England, in the Finals

Chasing a target of 258 put by England, that was swelled by a career-best 80 from No.8 Tim Bresnan, Ricky Ponting and Shane Watson produced their country's highest partnership in limited-overs cricket, 252 in 242 balls, to power their side into Monday's final of the Champions Trophy.
Watson finished 136 not out, including seven sixes, while skipper Ponting made an unbeaten 111, in the unbeaten second wicket partnership. In the end, Australia won by nine wickets with 49 balls to spare.
Ponting passed 12,000 one-day international runs on the way to his 28th hundred in the One Day format.

Australia 259/1 (Ponting 111*, Watson 136*) beat England 257 (Bresnan 80, Wright 48, Siddle 3-55) by nine wickets

Champions Trophy 2009 Group Stage Points Table

Group A Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Pts	Net RR
Australia	3	2	0	0	1	5	+0.510
Pakistan	3	2	1	0	0	4	+0.999
India	3	1	1	0	1	3	+0.290
West Indies	3	0	3	0	0	0	-1.537

Group B Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Pts	Net RR
New Zealand	3	2	1	0	0	4	+0.782
England	3	2	1	0	0	4	-0.487
Sri Lanka	3	1	2	0	0	2	-0.085
South Africa	3	1	2	0	0	2	-0.177

Champions Trophy, Match 11: Last-ball victory for Australia in modest run chase

Australia booked the semi-final spot with a thrilling two-wicket win over Pakistan in the Group A match at the SuperSport Park on Wednesday.
In reply to Pakistan’s 205 for six, Australia after losing six wickets for 40 runs did the thriller in the very last ball.

Australia 206/8 (Hussey 64) beat Pakistan 205/6 (Yousuf 45) by two wickets

Champions Trophy, Match 9: Rain ruins Australia-India match

A torrential downpour at Centurion Park saw the points shared by Australia and India with just 42.3 overs completed in their Champions Trophy encounter.
India will now have to beat West Indies by a big margin on Wednesday and pray that Pakistan too beat Australia by a good margin on the same day.

Australia 234/4 (Hussey 67, Ponting 65, Paine 56) v India - match abandoned due to rain

Champions Trophy, Match 5: Australia's Johnson pummels West Indies bowlers

Mitchell Johnson hit 73 as title holders Australia flourished in the closing overs to launch their ICC Champions Trophy campaign with a 50-run win over the West Indies Saturday.

Australia 275/8 (Ponting 79, Johnson 73*, Miller 2-24) beat West Indies 225 (Dowlin 55, Fletcher 54) by 50 runs

Australia show faith in seniors for Champions Trophy

Nine of the players currently playing in the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval, have been included in Australia's 15-man squad for next month's Champion's Trophy to be played in South Africa.

The 15-man squad features six players in their 30s and just two under the age of 25. Chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch said, "The Champions Trophy is a key event on ICC's cricket calendar and is a good opportunity for us to see how this new-look Australian one-day squad goes in its bid to retain the trophy."

Australian Team for Champions Trophy: Ricky Ponting (captain), Michael Clarke, Nathan Bracken, Callum Ferguson, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, Ben Hilfenhaus, James Hopes, Mike Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Peter Siddle, Adam Voges, Shane Watson, Cameron White