Was the match between Aussies and Pakistan was fixed

Its possible, in a champions trophy match Aussies purposely did slow batting to keep NZ out ,and Steve Waugh said in a press conference after,that we are not here to make friends but to win.This question was also raised when Aussies lost to SL in CB series this January which knocked India out.Actually these things will happen in professional sports ,India have themselves to blame that they got into such position.

I don't know whether the match was fixed or not. But if a team puts it's fate in the Australia's hand and then expects them to fair play, then that team has only itself to blame. Australia had the chance to play the kingmaker and decide the semifinalist and they did accordingly. Cheers! Ram

This is hard to say, I feel that Australian batting depends heavily on Watson, Warner and Mike Hussey. Remaining batting is very in experienced and unpredictable. Unfortunately both the openers got out early. Warner is not consistent and he is somewhat a player of Virender Sehwag type never know when they will play. IF they play surely they will make the opponents cry. In this tournament India and South Africa did not play to their potential is the only thing which I can say. Du plessis was sitting in all the matches and in experienced and over hyped played like Richard levi is opening the innings. This shows that SA did not prepare well for this tournament which the captain agree in post match interview. On the other hand India should have played with Gambhir and Sehwag in all the matches but they dropped Sehwag in two matches on against England and the other against Australia. Team India thought that bowlers will win matches for them after a one side match against England but Australia proved that all the departments must be good for winning matches. So, experiments were done a lot by both India and SA. That is why they are out of the tournament.

It is very difficult to say whether a match is fixed or not. Though my heart my tell me that they fixed the match to keep India out, yet many a times on the ground, even best of the teams have their off day and lose. And Pakistan team does sometimes puts up a great show, and that is why Aussies lost. But then, many things are possible ! Aren't they???

hussey was playing very well to win the match.they scored more than 10 runs in the 17th over and needed 45 from 3 overs.umar gul bowled an excellant over and giving away just 4 runs made the aussies to change direction and go to semis first. 40 from 2 is tough even if warner and watson were batting.they did the sensible thing and i am sure there is no law written than aussies should play well to make it easy for the indians? put all the blame on indian players.

seems it was not fixed but Aussies done the trick again by not to try to win. They have already done the same thing few months ago in try series Aus-India-Srilanka . They did this just to get rid from India and in form South Africa . They don't want to face these team in final. Embarrassing but they have done this again.