Group B : Match 1 : South Africa Vs Sri Lanka

Group B Match - 1
South Africa Vs Sri Lanka
Played at SuperSport Part, Centurion
22nd September 2009

Team News:
South Aftrica : GC Smith*, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AB de Villers, JP Duminy, MV Boucher†, JA Morkel, J Botha, RE van der Merwe, DW Steyn, WD Parnell

Sri Lanka: TM Dilshan, ST Jayasuriya, KC Sangakkara*†, DPMD Jayawardene, TT Samaraweera, SHT Kandamby, AD Mathews, KMDN Kulasekara, M Muralitharan, SL Malinga, BAW Mendis

South Africa won the toss and elected to field

Match Result: Sri Lanka won by 55 runs
Man of the Match : TM Dilshan

ICC Champions Trophy 2009

The Champions Trophy was the brainchild of Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was ICC president in the late 1990s. It had a dual aim of spreading the game to emerging nations and raising money for the ICC in between World Cups, thus enabling it to pump more cash into those fledgling cricket countries.

The first tournament, labelled as a mini World Cup, was staged in Dhaka in October 1998 and raised more than £10 million. The second, in Nairobi, was a commercial success although the crowds stayed away. By the time the 2002 event was held - and there was disquiet as it was so close to the World Cup five months later - the idea of playing in developing nations had been ditched (in fairness, options had already been exhausted) and as revenue-generation was the main reason, it needed to be in one of the main countries as this allowed the format to be expanded. In 2004 the jamboree moved to England and it became clear the format of group games led to too many meaningless games. By the time the 2006 tournament in India came into view, the event was under fire from some quarters, and at one time there were even hints that India might decline to take part in 2008.

The ICC Champions Trophy 2009 is a 2nd biggest cricket tournament scheduled to take place in South Africa in September-October 2009. It will be the sixth mini world cup cricket series. The ICC Champions Trophy 2009 will be contested by 8 Test teams which have been ’seeded’ and divided into two groups are A and B.

Group A – India, Pakistan, West Indies and Australia

Group B – South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and England

Price Money: US $4 million

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