Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
India	Pakistan	Australia	New Zealand
Bangladesh	England	Sri Lanka	South Africa
Ireland	Netherlands	West Indies	Scotland
Group E	A1, B2, C1, D2	Group F	B1, A2, C2, D1

Date	Lord's	Trent Bridge	The Oval
Fri, 5 June	Opening ceremony England v Netherlands 22:00 IST
Sat, 6 June		India v Bangladesh 22:00 IST	New Zealand v Scotland 14:30 IST Australia v West Indies 18:00 IST
Sun, 7 June			South Africa v Scotland 18:00 IST England v Pakistan 22:00 IST
Mon, 8 June		Ireland v Bangladesh 18:00 IST Australia v Sri Lanka 22:00 IST
Tues, 9 June	Pakistan v Netherlands 18:00 IST New Zealand v South Africa 22:00 IST
Wed, 10 June		Sri Lanka v West Indies 18:00 IST India v Ireland 22:00 IST

For the Super Eight Round Teams will compete as shown in the table below.

Date	Lord's	Trent Bridge	The Oval
Thu, 11 June		D1 v A2 (18:00 IST) B2 v D2 (22:00 IST)
Fri, 12 June	B1 v C2 (18:00 IST) A1 v C1 (22:00 IST)
Sat, 13 June			C1 v D2 (18:00 IST) D1 v B1 (22:00 IST)
Sun, 14 June	A2 v C2 (18:00 IST) A1 v B2 (22:00 IST)
Mon, 15 June			B1 v A2 (18:00 IST) B2 v C1 (22:00 IST)
Tues, 16 June		D1 v C2 (18:00 IST) D2 v A1 (22:00 IST)

The teams finishing first and second in groups E and F will compete in the semi-finals on Thu, 18 June at Trent Bridge and Fri, 19 June at The Oval. Final match followed by the closing ceremony will be held on Sun, 21 June at lords.

IPL Results 2009 - Deccan Chargers Win IPL 2009

Deccan Chargers Win IPL 2009

Both Teams from South India were in the finals of the IPL (Indian Premier League) 2009 and they performed really well to be there after finishing 7th and 8th last year. This year they performed exceptionally well to fight each other in the finals of the IPL 2009. Match was very exciting one and results are given below for your reference.

A full house at The Wanderers in Johannesburg saw the Deccan Chargers narrowly beat Bangalore Royal Challengers by just 6 runs. Bangalore Royal Challengers were just a sixer or as they say DLF Maximum away from the win when the match finished.

Posting a total of 144, Deccan Chargers held their nerve with Bangalore Royal Challengers requiring 15 runs of the last over, but with just one wicket remaining, they eventually finished on 137 for 9, 6 runs short of the Deccan total.

Date of the Final Match of IPL 2009 - 24/05/09

Venu: Johannesburg

20:00 IST - 14:30 GMT - 16:30 SA
Deccan Chargers v Bangalore Royal Challengers

Deccan Chargers win by 6 runs

Final Scores:

Deccan Chargers - 143-6

Bangalore Royal Challengers - 137-9

Score Card

Cricket: West Indies regain Wisden Trophy

The West Indies cricket team held on to a draw in the fifth and final test of the five match test series at Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad against the England cricket team to win the five test series 1-0 and regain the Wisden trophy after a gap of nine years. This is their first major test series victory in five years.

To win the match, West Indies were set a target of 240 runs in 66 overs or to bat two sessions for a draw. West Indies pair of Fidel Edwards and Denesh Ramdhin thwarted the English attack to finish on 114-8 and drawing the match.Earlier in the day Kevin Pietersen scored 102 runs to enable England to declare at 237/6 in their second innings.