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Shane Watson's second hundred in a week sealed Champions Trophy glory for Australia as they clinched a six-wicket win over New Zealand at Centurion. Watson hit an unbeaten 105, getting to his landmark and securing victory and a successful title defence with consecutive sixes off Jeetan Patel, following his man-of-the-match performance against England three days ago. Ricky Ponting's Australians, who have been in imperious one-day form since losing the Ashes, were rocked by the fall of two early wickets in pursuit of a 201-run target. But they got home in the 46th over thanks largely to Watson's 128-run stand with Cameron White. Watson crashed seven sixes in his 136 not out against Andrew Strauss' team and showed the advantage of being able to clear the rope once again, doing so four times on the same surface used for Friday's semi-final. Australia crawled along at under three runs per over until Watson pulled Ian Butler into the advertising boards at midwicket and f...

Sunday, October 04, 2009 LAHORE: The New Zealand cricket team has qualified for the final of ICC Champions Trophy defeating Pakistan in second semi-final on Saturday which has left people of Lahore highly disappointed.People made arrangements to watch live action of Pak-New Zealand semi-final on big screens at many places all across Lahore, which testified people getting sentimental amid progress of match.People were supporting green shirts on every single ball but by the time, Pakistan were nearing to defeat, people were becoming dismayed. Though fans appreciated Pakistani teams’ fight in the match but they were also critic of Pakistan’s poor fielding which cause their side’s ousting from race of Champions Trophy title.

Saturday, October 03, 2009 CENTURION: Australia cricket team has defeated England convincingly by 9 wickets with 49 balls to spare in the first semi-final of ICC Champions Trophy, thus qualifying for the final to be played on Monday with the winning team of today’s semi-final which is between Pakistan and New Zealand cricket team at Wanderers park.

Thursday, October 01, 2009 CENTURION: Australia will take on England in the first semi-final of ICC Champions Trophy to be played here on Friday.Australia clinched top spot in Group A with a last-ball two-wicket win over Pakistan.Australia and England will face each other for the first time in the Champions Trophy event. The match will be played at 6:00 PM (Pakistan Standard Time).The match toss will be of key significance between the two teams.Forecast of rain has been made during tomorrow’s critical match.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: Pacemen Ashish Nehra and Praveen Kumar shared six wickets as India dismissed under-strength West Indies for 129 in an inconsequential Champions Trophy match here on Wednesday.India were knocked out of the competition following defending champions Australia's tense two-wicket victory over Pakistan in a day match at Centurion on Wednesday, while the West Indies were already out of the tournament.Australia topped the four-team Group A with five points from three matches, followed by Pakistan (4/3). India have secured just one point and the West Indies none after two games.The top two sides advance to the semi-finals.India's slim hopes before this match rested first on a Pakistan victory over formidable Australia and then beating the West Indies in a day-night game. It was all over when Australia clinched a last-ball victory.Left-arm seamer Nehra finished with 3-31 and Kumar with 3-22 to boost India's hopes of posting a consolation v...

CENTURION: Australia and India received one point each after the match between the two teams was abandoned due to heavy rain on Monday.Rain interrupted Australian batting charge against India when they were on 234 runs for four wickets in 42.3 overs in the day/night match in Group A of the ICC Champions Trophy here at SuperSport Stadium.

Monday, September 28, 2009 CENTURION: England defeated South Africa by 22 runs, restricting them at 301-9 in the day/night match here at the Super Sport Park on Sunday.Chasing a difficult target of 324 runs, South Africa could not achieve despite a fine hundred by their captain Graeme Smith who opened the innings and got out as ninth victim batsman, scoring 141from 133 balls with 16 fours.AB de Villiers made 36 while no other batsman could make any significant contribution.For England, James Anderson and Stuart Broad claimed three wickets each Earlier, captain Andrew Strauss won the toss and decided to bat first after which England piled up a huge total of 323 runs for the loss of eight wickets to set an improbable target for the hosts.Owais Shah made 98 from 89 balls and smashed six sixes and five fours while Paul Collingwood scored 82 off 94 balls with six fours and a six. Both added 163 runs for the third wicket partnership.Eoin Morgan also hit a hurricane 67 off 34 balls, smashing ...

CENTURION: Shoaib Malikand Mohammad Yousuf shared a record fourth-wicket stand to help Pakistan beat India by 54 runs on Saturday to reach the Champions Trophy semi-finals. Pakistan compiled 302 for nine after winning the toss and batting before restricting their arch rivals to 248 all out. The victory led Pakistan to the top of Group A with four points from two matches ahead of Australia on two. India and West Indies have no points. Shoaib (128) and Yousuf (87) put on 206 in 193 balls, the biggest stand for any wicket in the Champions Trophy and a fourth-wicket record for Pakistan. The previous record in the competition was 192 for the first wicket, shared by Indians Virender Sehwag and Saurav Ganguly against England in Colombo in 2002 and Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds for West Indies against Bangladesh in Southampton in 2004.Pakistan's previous best for the fourth wicket was an unbroken stand of 198 between Kamran Akmal and Misbah ul-Haq against Australia in Abu Dhabi earlier this...

Sunday, September 27, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: New Zealand astonishingly defeated Sri Lanka by 38 runs in their Group B match of the ICC Champions Trophy here at the New Wanderers Stadium on Sunday.Chasing a difficult target of 316 runs, Sri Lanka batted well but could not reach the target as they were all out for 277 in 46.4 overs.Despite a good opening stand of 66 runs between Sanath Jayasuriya (24) and Tillekaratne Dillshan (41), Sri Lanka began losing wickets at regular intervals and soon they were reeling at 141 for six. However, former captain Mahela Jayawardene stood firm and along together with Nuwan Kulasekera took the score to 219 adding 78 for the seventh wicket.Jayawardene made 77 while Kulasekera remained not out on 57.For New Zealand, Kyle Mills claimed three wickets while Daryl Tuffey, James Franklin and Daniel Vettori took two wickets each.Earlier, New Zealand batsmen displayed brilliant batting performance by plundering a mammoth score of 315 runs against Sri Lanka here at t...

Saturday, September 26, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: English cricket team has defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets with thirty balls to spare in their first ODI counter in ICC Champions Trophy late on Friday, Geo news reported.

Thursday, September 24, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: Pakistan defeated the West Indies by five wickets in their first Group A match of the ICC Champions Trophy here at the New Wanderers Stadium on Wednesday night.Chasing a rather easy target of 134, Pakistan completed the task in just 30.3 overs for the loss of five wickets.Young batsman Umar Akmal top scored with an unbeaten 41 while stand-in captain Shahid Afridi was 17 not out.Both added 58 runs for the unbroken sixth wicket stand after Pakistan lost their five top order batsmen for 76 runs.Gavin Tonge bagged four wickets for 25 runs.Earlier, Pakistan bowlers skittled out West Indies for 133 runs in 34.3 overs after the West Indies captain Floyd Reifer won the toss and elected to bat first but their batsmen could not resist the Pakistani seamers and the West Indies lost their seven wickets for 47.Later, their late-order batsmen took out the team from disaster and succeeded in taking the score to 133.Number nine batsman Nikita Miller emerged a...