The eight nation cricketing combat kicks off live tonight. Yes, we're talking about the much awaited ICC Champions Trophy which was scheduled in 2008 but due to security concerns in the former hosting nation Pakistan, the big event got postponed. It's time for the African Safari to witness the mesmerizing game of cricket, where the hunt to reign the supreme ranking is on!

Online cricket fanatics will certainly witness a wide array of sites streaming the videos live from South Africa. Some of the websites will showcase high quality streaming links for all ICC Champions Trophy 2009 matches. Other than this, there is an option to see highlights and go backward to watch old matches. All they're asking you to do is, spend some dough for their services!

The world is Looking ahead for it... Where are you?

ESPN Star Sports has been announced as the official broadcasters to telecast live matches on television screen. Reliance Mobile (Official provider of ICC world Cup Content) is an official partner of ICC Champions Trophy 2009. ICC official website and for cricket gossip join the Cricinfo’s Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/cricinfo or follow Cricinfo on Twitter http://twitter.com/cricinfo_news to catch up with the latest cricket updates. Besides having numerous portals streaming live cricket scores for the ICC Champions Trophy 2009, there are addons that have been introduced. For instance HitWicket on Firefox Browser Window will allow you to get instant notifications.

Private video streaming sources can be accessed on web browserS using TVU and SopCast player. TVU networks / TVU web TV addon for Firefox will be able to play any relevant cricket stream on Firefox browser. You will need to install SopCast player to access web videos on sopcast network.

You may choose to view the live ICC Champions Trophy 2009 cricket action via Willow TV - http://www.willow.tv/EventMgmt/Default.asp UStream, Action8Cricket, OoxTV