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Tendulkar, Dhoni in video supporting ICC Champions Trophy | Indian cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Mahendra
Singh Dhoni and Gautam Gambhire have joined several top cricketers of the world to promote this year's ICC Champions Trophy. They also include international captains
Younus Khan of Pakistan, England's Andrew Strauss, Graeme Smith from host South
Africa and Daniel Vettori of New Zealand. All feature in a short video looking
ahead to the tournament, which takes place in South Africa from September 22.
ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said: "It is great to see the best players in
the world so enthused and motivated about this prestigious event. The ICC Champions
Trophy is another opportunity for us to showcase our great sport and the great
spirit with which I hope it will be played during this top-class tournament in
South Africa." The players talk about some of the key themes of the ICC Champions
Trophy 2009 that features the top eight-ranked One-Day International teams. The
videos stay true to one of those themes, with 30 second and 15 second versions
available, they are short and sharp, just like the tournament that features 15
matches in 14 days in just two venues. The players emphasise that the event is
about champion players in nation-versus-nation action, with honour, prestige and
more prize-money at stake than ever before. The sixth staging of the tournament
begins with host South Africa taking on Sri Lanka at Centurion in a day-night
encounter and will culminate with the final at the same venue on October 5. For
the first time, it will feature only the top eight-ranked sides in the world in
the only global multi-team 50-over-a-side tournament between the 2007 ICC Cricket
World Cup in the Caribbean and the next edition of that event, in the Asian sub-continent
in two years' time. Matches will be split between Centurion and The Wanderers
with the teams - Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, host South
Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies - divided into two pools of four, with the
top two from each pool progressing to the semi-finals stage. Holder Australia
begins the defence of its ICC Champions Trophy crown on Saturday 26 September
against the West Indies in a repeat of the 2006 final. That match will take place
as a day game at The Wanderers, Johannesburg and is part of a blockbuster day
of action as, later on, India and Pakistan will go head-to-head in a day-night
encounter at Centurion.
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