Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
ICC Champions Trophy 2009
ICC Champions Trophy 2009 in South Africa
2009 ICC Champions Trophy
The 2008 Champions Trophy which was due to take place in Pakistan in September 2008 and postponed over security fears, has been moved to South Africa by the International Cricket Council.
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Champions Trophy, First Semifinal: Australia crush England, in the Finals
October 2, 2009
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
Umpires: Aleem Dar, B F Bowden, J J Crowe, A L Hill Australia: S Watson, Paine (W), Ponting (C), M Hussey, Ferguson, C White, Hopes, M Johnson, Lee, Hauritz, Siddle England: Strauss (C), Denly, O Shah, Collingwood, E Morgan, L Wright, S Davies (W), Swann, Bresnan, Anderson, Onions
ICC Champions Trophy 2009 Group Stage Matches
Pool A: Australia, India, Pakistan, West Indies Pool B: South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, England
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
