15th Match, League A: NSW v Trinidad & T at Hyderabad

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The second league A match pits the Australia's champions against the West Indies' champions. Both sides come into this match with 2 wins from 2 matches and it could well be the all rounders which decide the match.

NSW bowling attack has lived up to its billing as top dog this tournament restricting their opposition to under a 100 in both matches. Doug Bollinger came back well after a not so good opening match against the Eagles and NSW will be hoping he carries this form into this match. The batting attack top a hit before the tournament when Michael Clarke and then Brad Haddin pulled out. Last season in all forms of the domestic competition, the NSW batting had a tendicy to collapse once the top order fell away. But with the emergence of Henriques at 4 and Ben Rorher at 5, NSW might finally have put to bed the batting collapses. David Warner is still yet to fire, and he could well be due for that blockbusting knock that we have come to expect from him.

Trinidad & Tobago got through the group stage on the back of Dwayne Bravo's magical bowling displays. Their batters haven't fired a shot this tournament with both openers getting starts but failing to convert into 50s. Their best knock so far has come from hard hitting all rounder, Kieron Pollard with 31 runs in just 14 balls. If T&T are going to fire a shot they will need one or two of their batters to stand up and the other bowlers to fire.

Team information
There is no injury woes for both sides and neither side will be wanting to change their winning lineups.

NSW: DA Warner, PJ Hughes, SM Katich*, MC Henriques , BJ Rohrer, SPD Smith, DLR Smith†, B Lee, NM Hauritz, SR Clark, DE Bollinger

Trinidad & Tobago: LMP Simmons, WKD Perkins, DM Bravo, D Ganga*, DJ Bravo, D Ramdin†, KA Pollard, S Ganga, D Mohammed, R Rampaul, S Badree
 
Carn NSW let's make it 3/3. Think they might give Bird a game?

Unchanged side and Katich goes 3/3 on the toss.
 
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NSW have blitzed out of the blocks and it's a very good pitch to bat on. You might have expected Warner to be playing all the shots here, but it's been mostly Hughes so far. As Dwayne Bravo found, even a perfect delivery might get slogged back over your head in these sorts of conditions, so there was little tolerance for Ravi Rampaul when he strayed too short and wide to these two fiends of the back cut. Ganga has turned to spin early to compensate and the other Ganga has curtailed proceedings to the point of actually troubling the batsmen somewhat. In fact, one ball that drifted down leg actually nicked the leg stump without dislodging the bail.

angryangy added 17 Minutes and 58 Seconds later...

And now Warner has caught up to and beaten Hughes to his 50! Hughes was on 49 at the start of the over and Warner was 22 runs behind him, but Warner had strike for the whole over. He was just a foot from being run out on the second ball, but then he hit two dead straight sixes off the medium pace of Badree, followed by an easy 4 off the pads and finished with a booming shot over the onside. Hughes now has his 50 too, but he's not the star of the show any more.
 
Ooh, close call there, catch on the straight boundary, but Dave Mohammed himself signals for the TV replay! It appears one of his feet just touched the rope. Perhaps he was too sporting, but there are awards for that.

angryangy added 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds later...

Ooh, bad errors in field for T&T. Pressure is getting to them.

angryangy added 1 Minutes and 48 Seconds later...

And why not, 170 is a big target. Bravo picks up 3 wickets in the final over to keep 180 out of the picture.
 
Super innings. Really took Henriques apart. I think Somerset still have a slim chance now as well, so all good.
 
Kieren Pollard DUde!!!!!!
Awesome!!!
:hpraise:hpraise
am supportin them in this tourney!
 
:laugh

Pollard you are my hero. :hpraise
 
Shocking bowling really, after they'd gotten the wickets and put pressure on, then comes a bunch of pies all overpitched or not pitching at all; to a batsman who is almost exclusively good on the front foot, of all people. Luck was with Pollard as he top edged a hook for six, but Henriques really should have taken more incentive from that than the much better hit boundaries he proceeded to replicate in his final 3 deliveries.
 
As they say, you make your own luck. But why would Katich give MH the ball after 27 run over.
 

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