Sport: 24 hours in pictures

The sun sets at Supersport Park during the ICC Champions Trophy final between Australia and New Zealand. The Aussies won by six wickets with 28 balls to spare, with Shane Watson scoring 105 from 129 balls Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

Manchester City's Carlos Tevez heads past Aston Villa's Stephen Warnock and John Carew during their 1-1 draw at Villa Park Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Italy's Gianvito Misuraca pokes the ball past Spain goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo to notch the first of his two goals in the U-20 World Cup last-16 match against in Cairo Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images

The Italian substitutes celebrate as the final whistle blows. Italy won 3-1 to progress to the quarter-finals where they will play either Hungary or the Czech Republic Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

Nicolas Limbach, right, competes against Luigi Tarantino during their individual sabre semi-final at the 2009 World Fencing Championship, which Limbach won 15-9 Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

Limbach looks on as Rares Dumitrescu celebrates winning a point during the individual Sabre final. Limbach won the gold medal with a 15-11 victory Photograph: Kaan Soyturk/AP

The Green Bay Packers defense smothers Minnesota Vikings' Adrian Peterson during the first half of their NFL match in Minneapolis. Unfortunately for the Packers, their defence wasn't this effective for the whole match as the Vikings won 30-23 Photograph: Jeff Haynes/Reuters

All eyes are on the quarterbacks as Minnesota Vikings' Brett Favre, right, and Green Bay Packers' Aaron Rodgers meet after the Vikings victory Photograph: Morry Gash/AP

Venus Williams returns to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at the China Open in Beijing. It wasn't a good day for the third seeded American as she lost 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 – the second successive tournament that Willams has gone out to Pavlyuchenkova Photograph: Li Xin/AFP/Getty Images