ICC Champions Trophy 2009

Mumbai: High on confidence after their the tri-nation Compaq Cup triumph in Sri Lanka, the Indian cricket team today left to participate in the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in South Africa from September 22.
The team left by the Dubai-bound flight from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport here and from Dubai they will be taking a connecting flight to Johannesburg.

The eight-nation tournament is scheduled to take place from September 22 to October 5.

India were the joint winners along with hosts Sri Lanka in ICC Champions Trophy held in 2002.

The team will play a warm-up match against New Zealand on Septeber 20. Placed in Group A along with Australia, Pakistan and the West Indies, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men will open their league engagements on September 26 against Pakistan.

The squad:
Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Suresh Raina, Abhishek Nayar, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Amith Mishra, Dinesh Karthik.

2009 ICC Champions Trophy

Team A :

23 September 2009	Pakistan	v	West Indies	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

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26 September 2009	Australia	v	West Indies	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

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26 September 2009	India	v	Pakistan	SuperSport Park, Centurion

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28 September 2009	Australia	v	India	SuperSport Park, Centurion

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30 September 2009	Australia	v	Pakistan	SuperSport Park, Centurion

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30 September 2009

India

v

West Indies

New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

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Team B :

22 September 2009	South Africa	v	Sri Lanka	SuperSport Park, Centurion

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24 September 2009	South Africa	v	New Zealand	SuperSport Park, Centurion

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25 September 2009	England	v	Sri Lanka	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

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27 September 2009	New Zealand	v	Sri Lanka	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

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27 September 2009	South Africa	v	England	SuperSport Park, Centurion

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29 September 2009

England

v

New Zealand

New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

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Semi-Finals

2 October 2009	A1	v	B2	SuperSport Park, Centurion

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3 October 2009	B1	v	A2	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

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Final

5 October 2009

A1/B2

v

B1/A2

SuperSport Park, Centurion

icc championship trophy schedule

Schedule and location

The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Pakistan between 12 and 28 September 2008. The ICC postponed the tournament due to security fears expressed by several participating countries. On 24 July 2008, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the tournament would take place in Pakistan after all despite players from Australia, England, South Africa and New Zealand raising concerns over touring the country. 22 August 2008, South Africa announced that it would not take part in the Champions Trophy due to security concerns. days later, on 24 August 2008, after speculation that the tournament would be held elsewhere (England, Sri Lanka, or South Africa), the ICC announced that the tournament would be postponed until October 2009.

At its meeting in January 2009, the ICC board decided to move the tournament out of Pakistan on security concerns. At the time, Sri Lanka was the favoured alternate host. March 2009, the ICC Chief Executives' Committee recommended to the ICC board that the tournament be held in South Africa as there were concerns that the weather in Sri Lanka during September and October could result in too many games being washed out. ICC board ratified the recommendation, and the event is now scheduled to take place in South Africa between 22 September and 5 October, 2009. will be played at Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park, both in the Johannesburg area.