A look at some of the games that summed up the themes the tournament has come to embody over the years

In the last ten or so overs at Centurion was found the very essence of Pakistan and Australia as cricket nations, and their beauty

Australia were the last team to enter the ICC Champions Trophy semi-finals but they got there after surviving a scare against Pakistan that had Ricky Ponting chewing his fingernails on the dressing-room balcony

Waiting for Mohammad Asif to return from the pit of hell he had thrown himself into in the last couple of years was almost worth it