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India vs Australia , ICC Champions Trophy 2009,  Match Preview, Live Scores , Live Streaming :

India and defending champions Australia  will face each other in the Group A match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009, Watch Live Streaming and Live scores of the match which will begin in Johannesburg on Monday 28th September, 2009. Match start time at 14:30 am local, 12:30 GMT , 6-00 pm India time.

This is a do or die match for India and  Captain Dhoni has chosen the tricky option to play five bowlers and ask their depleted batting order to rise to the occasion.

India  and Australia seem to play each other so many times often that it’s hard to believe they haven’t met in an ODI for the last 18 months. since the CB series in Australia last year.

If India play 5 blowlers it is almost certain Amit Mishra, the leggy, who made an impressive Test debut against Australia recently will play this match.

There are all kinds of possible scenarios for which teams could be in the  semi-finals in Group A , among all the simplest seems to be : if Australia beat India, it will be Pakistan and Australia in the semi finals fro group A..

If in case India win things become more complex. They will be in prime position due to their remaining game against a weakened West Indies.

Pitch and conditions

India will  have a slight advantage of having just played a match in Centurion, where the surface is much slower and provides more assistance to the spinners.

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India (possible): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 6 Suresh Raina, 7 Yusuf Pathan/Amit Mishra, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 RP Singh/Praveen Kumar, 10, Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashish Nehra.

Australia (possible): 1 Shane Watson, 2 Tim Paine (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Hussey, 5 Callum Ferguson/Michael Clarke, 6 Cameron White, 7 James Hopes, 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Brett Lee, 10 Nathan Hauritz, 11 Peter Siddle.

Quotes

“We all know we need to play better than we did today against India”

Ricky Ponting after Australia’s scrappy win over West Indies

“From now on it’s like a knockout tournament for us. If we don’t play well we can pack up our bags and go home.”

MS Dhoni after India’s loss to Pakistan