Duminy made Cape Cobra Win

Cape Cobras (of South Africa) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore in an exciting finish with the help of a brilliant 99 not out by J P Duminy. J P Duminy scored these runs in just 52 balls. He played every shot in the book and remained unbeaten on 99, as he took a single to tie the score on the third ball off the final over of the match bowled by R Vinay Kumar of Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Anil Kumble of Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field first. Royal Challengers Bangalore opener Robin Uthappa played a superb knock of 51 off just 39 balls, when he got out on the bowling of Mondi Zondeki. Earlier, Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the opener Jacques Kallis pretty early. Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Ross Taylor also hit a fast half century and remained unbeaten on 53. For Cape Cobras, Charles Langeveldt took 1 wicket, but he conceded only 12 runs off his 3 overs. Other major wicket takers for Cape Cobras were Mondi Zondeki, and Henderson.

In reply, Cape Cobras had a pretty decent start, but they seemed to lost the way after the loss of a couple of wickets. However, Jean Paul Duminy stood tall and scored an unbeaten 99 off just 52 balls with the help of 8 fours and 5 towering sixes. Along with Canning, he scored 61 runs for the 5th wicket. J P Duminy hit 3 boundaries and 1 six in the tense stage of the game. Praveen Kumar of Royal Challengers Bangalore bowled reasonably well, until he was hit for 2 boundaries by J P Duminy in the penultimate over of the match. For Royal Challengers Bangalore, Praveen Kumar took 3 wickets, whereas spinners Anil Kumble and Roelef Van der Merwe took 1 wicket each.

The choice of Man of the Match award was pretty simple – it was J P Duminy of Cape Cobras

Champions League Twenty20 2009/10

Date and Time	Match
Thu Oct 8	1st Match, Group C - Royal Challengers Bangalore v Cape Cobras M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Fri Oct 9	2nd Match, Group B - Eagles v New South Wales Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi 3rd Match, Group D - Delhi Daredevils v Victoria Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Sat Oct 10	4th Match, Group C - Cape Cobras v Otago Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad 5th Match, Group A - Deccan Chargers v Somerset Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Sun Oct 11	6th Match, Group B - New South Wales v Sussex Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi 7th Match, Group D - Delhi Daredevils v Wayamba Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Mon Oct 12	8th Match, Group A - Somerset v Trinidad & Tobago M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore 9th Match, Group C - Royal Challengers Bangalore v Otago M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Tue Oct 13	10th Match, Group D - Victoria v Wayamba Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi 11th Match, Group B - Eagles v Sussex Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Wed Oct 14	12th Match, Group A - Deccan Chargers v Trinidad & Tobago Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Thu Oct 15	13th Match, League B - TBC v TBC (C1vD2) M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Fri Oct 16	14th Match, League A - TBC v TBC (A2vB2) Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad 15th Match, League A - TBC v TBC (A1vB1) Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Sat Oct 17	6th Match, League B - TBC v TBC (C2vD2)
Sat Oct 17	17th Match, League B - TBC v TBC (C1vD1)
Sun Oct 18	18th Match, League A - TBC v TBC (A2 v B1) Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad 19th Match, League A - TBC v TBC (A1 v B2) Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Mon Oct 19	20th Match, League B - TBC v TBC (C2 v D1) Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Wed Oct 21	1st semi-final - TBC v TBC (Winner B v Runner up A) Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Thu Oct 22	2nd semi-final - TBC v TBC (Winner A v Runner up B) Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Fri Oct 23	Final - TBC v TBC Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Australia won the Champions Trophy

Australia defeated New Zealand to won the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 by 6 wickets. New Zealand batted first and managed to score just 200. Australia, however struggling a lot in the early overs, win the game comfortably in the end, thanks mainly to the second successive century by opener Shane Watson and a gritty half century by Cameron White.

Shane Watson was declared the Man of the Match, whereas Australian captain Ricky Ponting was declared the Man of the Series.

Australia reaches semi….India not

Australia defeated Pakistan on the very last ball of the match and managed to book a place in semi finals of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009. With Australia’s victory, India will be booking a ticket after the India-West Indies match. However, India won the game against West Indies (see below for details), but it was too late for the World’s Number 3 team in the world.

Just like the New Zealand-England game, it was a do-or-die game. However, it was Australia who was not at a great danger. Well, Pakistan, put on to bat first by Australia, as Ricky Ponting won the toss for Australia. It was a good wicket to bowl on, and with perfect conditions for seamers, Pakistani batsmen found it difficult to cope with the conditions. It was evident from Pakistani skipper Younis Khan’s innings, as he scored just 18 from 49 balls. Can’t say, was that a deliberate attempt from the Pakistanis to play slowly (in order to minimize Indian chances) or were the conditions really helpful for the seamers? Well, they finished off on just 205 and put Australia a really easy target.

Australians started off well and it looked like an easy Australian victory, before struggling at the doors of victory. Pakistani spinners turn the tables and suddenly Australian middle and lower order looked fragile. It was Brett Lee, who kept his nerves and ensured that Australia doesn’t have for the India-West Indies match.

Meanwhile, India wins the game against a weak West Indies side by 7 wickets, but it was too late for them. The Indian pacers started off brilliantly, plucking West Indian wickets like flowers, as Pravin Kumar and Ashish Nehra did a fantastic job and shared 7 wickets between them. However, they have done it very late and had it would been India-Pakistan tie, there performance should have been heavily praised by crores of Indian fans.

Virat Kohli was declared the Man of the Match, for his unbeaten 70 runs in the chase.

Kiwis in….Sri Lanka out

New Zealand registered a difficult win against England to move ahead to the Semi Finals of the ICC Champions Trophy and to stop Sri Lanka from qualifying with the same.

England batting first, had a disastrous start as they lost the top 3 batsmen with just 13 on the board. Paul Collingwood and Ravi Bopara tried hard to provide stability to the innings but other batsmen failed to do so. Ryan Sidebottom also played an important innings of 20 in the end to take England close to 150. Surprisingly, Grant Elliot was the highest wicket taker with figures of 4-31 and Shane Bond contributed with figures of 3-21.

In reply, New Zealand started brilliantly and with time, it looked as if they would win by 10 wickets. However, as we know Cricket is a game with a lot of uncertainties, England pegged back when Stuart Broad started taking Kiwi wickets one-after-another. But, as the target was very short, they eventually finished the game after losing 6 wickets. Broad finished with figures of 4-39