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"Australia have hammered by 9 wickets to seal their place in the Finals of the ICC Champions Trophy.\nEngland were given some hope at half time as a superb innings of 80 by Tim Bresnan helped them recover from 110-6 to post a competitive total of257.\nHowever Australia's skipper Ricky Ponting and Opener Shane Watson both hit superb centuries as Australia cruised home for the loss of just one wicket with 8.1 overs to spare.\nAustralia have been playing some good One day cricket in recent times, they beat England 6-1 in the Natwest series in England just over 2 weeks ago.\nAustralia are the defending champions, they won the tournament for the 1st time in 2006 when it was staged in India, on that occasion they defeated the West Indies in the final.\nEngland were runners up to the West Indies back in 2004 they also hosted the competition that year.\nIt would take a brave person to [URL=\"http://www.oddsbet.co.uk/category/event-type/cricket\"]Betagainst Australia defending their title this year."
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