Champions Trophy (England, June 2013)

[merman]

ICC Champions Trophy - Group A

Team Played Won Lost Tied N/R R/R Points

1 England 3 2 1 0 0 0.31 4.0

2 Sri Lanka 3 2 1 0 0 -0.2 4.0

3 New Zealand 3 1 1 0 1 0.78 3.0

4 Australia 3 0 2 0 1 -0.68 1.0

ICC Champions Trophy - Group B

Team Played Won Lost Tied N/R R/R Points

1 India 3 3 0 0 0 0.94 6.0

2 South Africa 3 1 1 1 0 0.32 3.0

3 West Indies 3 1 1 1 0 -0.07 3.0

4 Pakistan 3 0 3 0 0 -1.04 0.0

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19th June, England v South Africa (The Oval) - England won by seven wickets

20th June, India v Sri Lanka (Cardiff) -India won by eight wickets

Final 23rd June (Edgbaston, Birmingham)

England v India - India won by 4 runs (match reduced to 20 overs a side)

[Sirloin]

And *that* Pakistan seems to have turned up.

[milko]

I think they might yet get away with this. Bloody lucky with the turned down review and dropped catch behind in quick succession.

[milko]

...or not. Oh dear, sorry batting performance after getting more or less off the hook.

[Sirloin]

Decent start from England here, Australia were terrible in their warm up games, but they can't be that bad again surely?

[Sirloin]

Need a bit of a kick here, should be aiming for 280 if they can.

[Sirloin]

Keeping it tight well here. With Watson and Warner gone I think Australia might struggle to push the rate up.

[milko]

Australia not a whole lot better than the warmup games then. Although perhaps largely down to some great bowling.

[Sirloin]

Yeah they've bowled well, Bopara a bit expensive but he did well with the bat.

[merman]

I'd hardly heard of any of that Australian team... Still, our bowlers got plenty out of the pitch and the Tredwell/Root ten overs went for less than fifty. A win and a good net run rate.

[Gringo]

Sri Lanka in the mire at the minute 68/5 after 21. New Zealand continuing their good form (so far).

[feltmonkey]

cracking game between New Zealand and Sri Lanka coming to a conclusion right now. NZ need 4, SL need 1 wicket. classic low-scoring game.

[milko]

So tense!

[Sirloin]

Pakistan need something spectacular here, in danger of sleepwalking out of the tournament.

[merman]

Ramdin (West Indies) gets a two match ban for claiming a dropped catch

Two Sri Lankan players reprimanded for excessive appealing

Michael Clarke not fit for the Aus v NZ match

[milko]

Up and down innings for West Indies there. Finished quite up though, if Narine gets going this could be another tight match.

[Sirloin]

Think they needed another 30 or so runs to have a good go at this. India bat very deep so I would expect them to chase this easily. But I thought that about New Zealand the other day too!

[milko]

Oh well. Bit of a cakewalk in the end. SA v WI for the semi spot then, and India probably favourites to win overall.

[Sirloin]

David Warner dropped for getting into a fight with Joe Root apparently. Australia's batting lineup just keeps getting worse.

[footle]

David Warner dropped for getting into a fight with Joe Root apparently. Australia's batting lineup just keeps getting worse.

Shame.

[Sirloin]

They've brought Maxwell in, who went for 1 million the in IPL auction but the only played one game. Interested to see how he goes as he's a 20:20 specialist, and might not have the patience required here.

[footle]

13-2. with a runout. Do you think Australia have given up already?

[Sirloin]

Bloody well hope so as I'm on the Kiwis. Can't write Australia off until Watson has been and gone though.

[Sirloin]

Hang on, he was first out, have to strongly fancy NZ from here. Stupid cricinfo and its limited scrolling window.

[footle]

Bloody well hope so as I'm on the Kiwis. Can't write Australia off until Watson has been and gone though.

WICKET! Watson c Ronchi b McClenaghan 5 (Australia 5-1)

[Sirloin]

This is getting away from New Zealand a bit here.

[Sirloin]

Good total from Australia, lot of work done by the Kiwi spinners though, whereas Australia are more about their quicks. Should be a good listen.

[Sirloin]

Charles Dagnall is Alan Partridge, he's going on about service stations now.

[merman]

Australia v New Zealand abandoned due to rain. England can go through by beating Sri Lanka.

[Sirloin]

Decent score so far but lot of Malinga overs left, the should be taking advantage against the lesser bowlers.