India, Australia split points as game rained off

Centurion: Rain washed off India's Group A game against Australia at the SuperSport park here on Monday. Australia were 234 for four in 42.3 overs when rain stopped stopped proceedings.

Both teams got a point each from the game and Pakistan qualified for the semi-finals.
India now have to beat the West Indies and hope Pakistan get the better off the Aussies in the group A double header on Wednesday to make it the top four. In that case, India and Australia will be on three points each and the one with the better net run-rate will prevail.

However, if Australia beat Pakistan they will qualify for the semi-final with India's game against West Indies turning to a dead rubber.Earlier, Tim Paine (56), Ricky Ponting (65) and Mike Hussey (67) set up Australia with quickfire half-centuries after Australia elected to bat.Cameron White (35) and Callum Ferguson (two) were are the crease for the defending champions when rain intervened.

Australia lost an early wicket when Shane Watson pulled left-arm seamer Ashish Nehra to Harbhajan Singh at mid-wicket.