ICC Champions Trophy (6 June - 23 June).

[Syn]

Champions Trophy starts tomorrow. India V South Africa the first game in Cardiff. SA will be as solid as usual. AB de Villiers the danger man. India can't bowl for shit but their middle order is just ridiculously strong in this format. Danger man: Jadeja.

Prediction: India to win.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I think this should have its own thread. We could probably do with a new Cricket thread too tbf.

Anyway, Sky's programme is about to start. I presume Ravi Shastri will be on the syndicated commentary team.

This is the last Champions Trophy too.

[Dennis Bendtner]

South Africa win the toss and will bowl.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jerusalem ringing out around the ground.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Well, no Vijay. That's one fewer idiot to worry about. And Steyn isn't playing.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Prince Charles.

Opens the tournament without actually being there.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Warney and Sanjay Manjrekar are the first commentators.

India: S Dhawan, RG Sharma, V Kohli, KD Karthik, SK Raina, MS Dhoni*†, RA Jadeja, R Ashwin, B Kumar, I Sharma, UT Yadav

South Africa: HM Amla, CA Ingram, F du Plessis, AB de Villiers*†, JP Duminy, DA Miller, R McLaren, RJ Peterson, RK Kleinveldt, M Morkel, LL Tsotsobe

[Dennis Bendtner]

Could do with some runs today Rohit you ****

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And he smacks a six.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Top order runs for India are mostly bonus runs really, especially against South Africa. Rohit is batting pretty well so far.