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Western Australia news

Scorchers players escape sanctions

Oct 31, 2012: Perth Scorchers players who misbehaved en masse on the team's Twenty20 Champions League jaunt have escaped any further sanctions following an investigation by the WACA

Australia news

Haddin forewarned of his omission

Oct 30, 2012: Brad Haddin knew for some time the Australian selectors preferred Matthew Wade as their first choice for the Gabba Test

Time Out

Is the Champions League still a developing concept?

Oct 30, 2012: Harsha Bhogle, Tom Moody and Peter Kirsten review the tournament, and CSA's head Jacques Faul offers his assessment of the league

Champions League Twenty20 performance analysis

Wiese, Mills the top performers

Oct 29, 2012: An analysis of individual batting and bowling performances in the Champions League Twenty20 2012

Champions League T20 2012

Not all doom and gloom at CLT20

Oct 29, 2012: The money on offer and the world stage may not be a huge deal for the IPL superstars, but for the more workaday cricketers, it can be career-transforming

Champions League T20 2012

The discovery of Phangiso, and Tendulkar's flop show

Oct 29, 2012: The highs and lows of the Champions League T20 2012

Champions League T20 2012

A mostly South African and Australian selection

Oct 29, 2012: ESPNcricinfo picks the XI of the tournament

Champions League T20 2012

Sydney Sixers were flawless champions

Oct 29, 2012: There were almost no flaws in Sydney Sixers' victorious campaign. Brad Haddin had rich resources at his disposal and he managed them astutely

Champions League T20 2012

A need to even the playing field

Oct 29, 2012: The tournament, despite its many peculiarities, had a worthy winner

Lions v Sydney Sixers, final, CL T20, Johannesburg

How the Lions whimpered

Oct 29, 2012: A packed Wanderers had to watch their team lose disappointingly, that too to an Aussie side!

Lions v Sydney Sixers, final, CLT20, Johannesburg

'Our worst game' - Petersen

Oct 28, 2012: Lions captain Alviro Petersen summed up their showing in the CLT20 final by saying it was their worst game of the tournament

Lions v Sydney Sixers, final, CLT20, Johannesburg

Title win was no fluke - Haddin

Oct 28, 2012: Brad Haddin has said the Sydney Sixers' comprehensive ten-wicket-win in the Champions League final was no fluke, and that they had been preparing for the big game for over two weeks

Lions v Sydney Sixers, final, CLT20, Johannesburg

A big day cut short

Oct 28, 2012: The sell-out Johannesburg crowd anticipated a special day, seen in the buzz around the stadium, showing the tournament wasn't meaningless. But Lions' lacklustre show killed it

Lions v Sydney Sixers, final, CLT20, Johannesburg

Spin surprise and the Lumb coup

Oct 28, 2012: Plays of the Day for the Champions League final between Lions and Sydney Sixers in Johannesburg

Lions v Sydney Sixers, final, CLT20, Johannesburg

Sydney Sixers sizzle to win Champions League T20

Oct 28, 2012: The groundsman, the commentators, the general manager who played at the Wanderers on March 12, 2006, all spoke about the resemblance of the pitch to the 438 game, but the way the Lions started it took major rebuilding to go past 38

Lions v Sixers, final, CLT20, Johannesburg

Lions' chance to adorn trophy cabinet

Oct 27, 2012: A full house will be on hand at the Wanderers to cheer the Lions as they bid to entire a long trophy-less spell

Lions v Sydney Sixers, final, CLT20, Johannesburg

Home favourites v tournament favourites

Oct 27, 2012: The preview of the CLT20 final between Lions and Sydney Sixers, in Johannesburg

Titans v Sixers, 2nd semi-final, CLT20, Centurion

Cool Cummins does it again

Oct 26, 2012: Pat Cummins was the Sixers' finisher but their impressive starts with ball and bat were just as important

Titans v Sixers, 2nd semi-final, CLT20, Centurion

Roelof's roar and Lumb's comic fielding

Oct 26, 2012: Plays of the Day for the Champions League semi-final between Titans and Sydney Sixers in Centurion

Titans v Sixers, 2nd semi-final, CLT20, Centurion

Sydney Sixers in final after nailbiter

Oct 26, 2012: Fortunes ebbed and flowed in true Twenty20 style in Centurion, as Sydney Sixers scripted a final-ball jailbreak to set up a title clash with Lions on Sunday