Deccan Chargers increased their defeat record infront of their home crowd to 9 matches
Indian Premier League champions have been knocked out of the Champions League Twenty20 at the group stage after a three-run defeat to Trinidad & Tobago in Hyderabad tonight.
Batting first Trinidad & Tobago scored 49 for seven with usefull knocks fromopener Williams Perkins 38 off 32 balls and No7 batsman Kieron Pollard 31 from 14 balls
Deccan Chargers failed to build any partnership and ended up 3 runs short. Adam Gilchrist struck a 51 off 36 balls,which I think is not a typicaly gill innigs. Venugopal Rao made 30 in 14 balls, but failed to finish the match
With eight runs needed off the Dwayne Bravo’s last over, deccan ended up scoreing only 5 runs
Video Highlights:
The scores: Trinidad & Tobago: L. Simmons lbw b F. Edwards 7, W. Perkins lbw b F. Edwards 38, Darren Bravo c & b T. Suman 14, D. Ganga (run out) 0, Dwayne Bravo (run out) 11, D. Ramdin st A. Gilchrist b A. Symonds 15, K. Pollard b F. Edwards 31, Sherwin Ganga not out 13, D. Mohammed not out 2. Extras: (lb- 8, nb-4, w-6) 18. Total: (for seven wickets in 20 overs) 149.
Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-53, 3-53, 4-83, 5-92, 6-125, 7-135.
Deccan Chargers bowling: Fidel Edwards 4-0-32-3, R. P. Singh 4-0-22-0, Styris 1-0-10-0, Suman 3-0-24-1, Symonds 4-0-25-1, Ojha 4-0-28-0.
Deccan Chargers: A. Gilchrist c Pollard b Simmons 51, V. V. S. Laxman lbw b Dwayne Bravo 4, A. Kumar c D. Ramdin b Dwayne Bravo 1, A. Symonds (run out) 2, R. Sharma c Dwyne Bravo b S. Badree 25, S. Styris (run out) 14, Y. V. Rao c D. Ramdin b R. Rampaul 30, T. Suman (not out) 9, R. P. Singh b Dwayne Bravo 5, F. Edwards (run out) 0, P. Ojha (not out) 0. Extras: (lb-1, nb-1, w-3) 5. Total: (for nine wickets in 20 overs) 146.
Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-23, 3-30, 4-85, 5-86, 6-125, 7-137, 8-145, 9-145.
Trinidad & Tobago bowling: Rampaul 4-0-29-1, Dwayne Bravo 4-0-24-3, Sherwin Ganga 2-0-17-0, Pollard 1-0-13-0, Mohammad 3-0-21-0, Badree 3-0-25-1, Simmons 3-0-16-1.