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Thursday, September 24, 2009

South Africa defeat New Zealand by 5 wickets

CENTURION: AB de Villiers scored an unbeaten 70 to steer South Africa to a five-wicket win over New Zealand in Champions Trophy Group B on Thursday.

The hosts, who lost their opening match to Sri Lanka, will now go into their final group game against England on Sunday knowing that victory would almost certainly book them a place in the semi-finals.

New Zealand were sent in to bat and compiled a mediocre 214 all out built around Ross Taylor's 72 off 105 deliveries.

South Africa lost wickets regularly in reply, but De Villiers ensured that they were always ahead of the required run-rate as he breezed to 70 not out off 76 balls, including
nine boundaries.

The home side gave a much-improved bowling display on a pitch that had more of a green tinge than in the loss to Sri Lanka, with Dale Steyn (two for 32) and Jacques Kallis
particularly economical.

Left-arm spinner Roelof van der Merwe showed that he can both contain and take wickets as he completed figures of two for 35 in 10 excellent overs.

New Zealand opening batsman Brendon McCullum scored 44, before Taylor and South African-born Grant Elliott (39) combined for a fourth-wicket stand of 71.

But the Black Caps suffered a late collapse in which they lost their last five wickets for 11 runs.

Wayne Parnell, expensive in his first two spells, returned to claim three more wickets and finish with career-best figures of five for 57.

Hashim Amla (38) and Kallis (36) put on 52 for the second wicket to keep South Africa on target after the early loss of captain Graeme Smith.

Kallis looked particularly impressive, being quick to get on the front foot as he stroked six fours off 39 deliveries, before edging a leg-cutter from Shane Bond to wicketkeeper McCullum.

The glovework of McCullum was the highlight in the field for New Zealand as he also took fine catches standing up to pace bowlers Daryl Tuffey and Kyle Mills to remove JP Duminy for 11 and Mark Boucher for 28.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Pakistan draw first blood in Champions Trophy

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 as top scorer with 51 from 57 balls. He struck six fours and a six.

For Pakistan, seamers Mohammad Aamer and Umar Gul claimed three wickets each while spinner Saeed Ajmal got two wickets. Sahhid Afirdi and naved-ul-Hasan took one wicket each.

All-rounder Shahid Afridi led Pakistan in the absence of Younus Khan, who was ruled out of the match due to a finger injury.

West Indies: Floyd Reifer (captain), Darren Sammy, David Bernard, Tino Best, Travis Dowlin, Andre Fletcher, Nikita Miller, Dale Richards, Devon Smith, Gavin Tonge, Chadwick Walton.

Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (captain), Imran Nazir, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Rana Naved-ul Hasan, Mohammad Yousuf, Kamran Akmal, Umar Gul, Mohammad Aamir, Saeed Ajmal.

ICC Champions Trophy 2009 FIXTURES

Tue Sep 22
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
Group B - South Africa v Sri Lanka
SuperSport Park, Centurion
Wed Sep 23
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
Group A - Pakistan v West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Thu Sep 24
09:30 local | 07:30 GMT
13:30 PKST
Group B - South Africa v New Zealand
SuperSport Park, Centurion
Fri Sep 25
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
Group B - England v Sri Lanka
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat Sep 26
09:30 local | 07:30 GMT
13:30 PKST
Group A - Australia v West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat Sep 26
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
Group A - India v Pakistan
SuperSport Park, Centurion
Sun Sep 27
09:30 local | 07:30 GMT
13:30 PKST
Group B - New Zealand v Sri Lanka
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sun Sep 27
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
Group B - South Africa v England
SuperSport Park, Centurion
Mon Sep 28
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
Group A - Australia v India
SuperSport Park, Centurion
Tue Sep 29
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
Group B - England v New Zealand
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Wed Sep 30
09:30 local | 07:30 GMT
13:30 PKST
Group A - Australia v Pakistan
SuperSport Park, Centurion
Wed Sep 30
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
Group A - India v West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Fri Oct 2
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC (A1 v B2)
SuperSport Park, Centurion
Sat Oct 3
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC (B1 v A2)
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Mon Oct 5
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:30 PKST
Final - TBC v TBC
SuperSport Park, Centurion

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