Andrew McDonald’s  4-21 as Victoria eased past Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first game of the Champions League Twenty20’s second phase.

Chasing Royal Challengers’ 127 for six in 20 overs, Victoria Bushrangers scored 133 for three in 15.5 overs with David Hussey (31 n.o., 15 balls, 2×4, 3×6)

Bangalore strated well scoreing 70 odd runs in first 10 runs, but failed to score quick runs in their later part of innisgs.

With this win Victoria Bushrangers almost booked their place in semis, while Bangalore Royal Challengers fortune depends on other games

Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Victoria Bushrangers- Champions League T20 Video  Highlights

The scores:

Royal Challengers Bangalore: M. Pandey c & b McDonald 39, R. Uthappa b McKay 13, R. Dravid lbw b McDonald 33, V. Kohli c A. Blizzard b McDonald 6, R. Taylor lbw b McDonald 2, M. Boucher c Blizzard b McKay 5, B. Akhil (not out) 18, R. van der Merwe (not out) 3, Extras (b-1, lb-6, nb-1) 8; Total (for six in 20 overs) 127.

Fall of wickets: 1-39, 2-60, 3-76, 4-79, 5-99, 6-104.

Victoria Bushrangers bowling: Harwood 4-0-28-0, Siddle 4-0-26-0, McKay 4-0-26-2, Holland 4-0-19-0, McDonald 4-0-21-4.

Victoria Bushrangers: R. Quiney c Dravid b Steyn 29, B. Hodge b B. Akhil 25, A. Blizzard b Merwe 21, D. Hussey (not out) 31, C. White (not out) 6, Extras (b-4, lb-7, w-10) 21; Total (for three wickets in 15.5 overs) 133.

Fall of wickets: 1-48, 2-95, 3-97.

Royal Challengers Bangalore bowling: Kumble 3.5-0-39-0, Praveen 2-0-10-0, Steyn 4-0-33-1, Akhil 3-0-20-1, Merwe 3-0-20-1.

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.

English champions Sussex are out of the inaugural Champions League after losing in dramatic fashion to South African side Diamond Eagles in Delhi.
For the first time, Super over decided the fate of teams. De Villers took two wickets in the super over and ended the dream of English side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJFKZXA_1XA

Royal Challengers trashed Otago Volta with a 80 run victory and entered intl later stages of champions league T20.

Jaques Kallis smashed a blazing unbeaten 73 and   Robin Uthappa had blasted 42 from 31 deliveries at the start and Ross Taylor scored a quick fire 32 from 11 deliveries that included three sixes in the final over to power Royal Challengers Bangalore to a massive 188 for two against Otago Volts i

Delhi daredevils dissapointed their home crowd with a poor batting display against Victoria Bushrangers

Watchout video highlights of this match

The scores: Delhi Daredevils: G. Gambhir b Harwood 4, V. Sehwag c & b McKay 21, T. Dilshan b McKay 18, O. Shah c Wade b McKay 0, D. Karthik (run out) 6, M. Manhas b Harwood 25, R. Bhatia b McDonald 8, A. Mishra (not out) 7, P. Sangwan b McDonald 1; Extras (b-2, lb-2, w-4): 8. Total (for eight wkts. in 20 overs): 98.

Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-31, 3-41, 4-47, 5-76, 6-84, 7-96, 8-98.

Victoria Bushrangers bowling: Harwood 4-0-20-2, Siddle 4-0-21-0, McKay 4-0-17-3, McDonald 4-0-17-2, Holland 3-0-10-0, Hussey 1-0-9-0.

Victoria Bushrangers: R. Quiney b Mishra 40, B. Hodge b Dilshan 9, C. White (not out) 22, D. Hussey b Bhatia 7, A. Blizzard (not out) 15; Extras (lb-1, w-5, nb-1): 7. Total (for three wkts. in 16.4 overs): 100.

Fall of wickets: 1-55, 2-55, 3-78.

Delhi Daredevils bowling: Nehra 3-0-20-0, Nannes 3-0-17-0, Mishra 4-0-30-1, Dilshan 4-0-14-1, Bhatia 2.4-0-18-1.

New South Wales Blues steamrollered South Africa’s Diamond Eagles by 53 runs.

Diamond Eagels failed to chase a decent target of 142 and succumbed to a accurate bowling of Brett Leeand  Clark

Batting first NSW scored 144 with Katich scoring a half a century.

Watch out the video highlights of this match

The scores: NSW Blues: P. Hughes b Mpitsang 1, D. Warner b Bailey 23, S. Katich c Rossouw b van Schalkwyk 53, M. Henriques a McLaren b van Schalkwyk 27, B. Rohrer (not out) 22, S. Smith b du Preez 10, B. Lee (run out) 0, D. Smith (not out) 0; Extras (lb-6, w-2): 8. Total (for six wkts in 20 overs): 144.

Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-82, 3-84, 4-126, 5-138, 6-138.

Diamond Eagles bowling: du Preez 4-0-32-1, Mpitsang 3-0-11-1, McLaren 3-0-30-0, van Schalkwyk 3-0-22-2, Tshabalala 4-0-33-0, Bailey 3-0-10-1.

Diamond Eagles: A. McLaren (run out) 11, R. Rossouw lbw b Lee 1, MN van Wyk c Hughes b Clark 0, B. Dippenaar c Katich b Clark 7, R. Bailey (run out) 8, R. McLaren, SC van Schalkwyk b Henriques 3, D. du Preez b Clark 7, T. Tshabalala (not out) 8, P. Mpitsang (not out) 0; Extras (lb 4): 4. Total (for nine wkts in 20 overs): 91.

Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-13, 3-14, 4-22, 5-24, 6-36, 7-62, 8-71, 9-90.

NSW Blues bowling: Lee 4-1-14-1, Bollinger 4-0-21-0, Clark 4-0-12-3, Henriques 3-0-13-2, Hauritz 4-0-13-1, Smith 1-0-14-0.

J.P Duminy  single handedly gave Cape Cobras victory in the inaugural match of cricket’s Champions League with a superb knock of 99 in 52balls with, 8 fours and 5 huge sixes

Bangalore royal  Challengers posted a healthy target of 180, thanks to Robin Uthappa (51) and a late fireworks from Ross Taylor (53 not out). What costed them the match – Ross Taylor missing a sitter when Duminy in in his late 20’s.

Pravven Kumar bowled a impressive first spell take dangerous Gibbs in his first over and dismissing skipper Andrew Puttick, however the rest of the bowlers failed to keep pressure.

Video Highlights Cape Cobras vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

The scores:

Royal Challengers Bangalore: J. Kallis c R. Canning b Langeveldt 8, R. Uthappa c Gibbs b Zondeki 51, R. Dravid (run out) 28, V. Kohli st. Canning b Henderson 17, R. Taylor (not out) 53, M. Pandey (not out) 10. Extras (lb-4, w-9): 13. Total (for four wickets in 20 overs): 180.

Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-82, 3-97, 4-115.

Cape Cobras bowling: Langeveldt 3-0-12-1, Kleinveldt 4-0-45-0, Philander 2-0-21-0, Zondeki 4-0-39-1, Henderson 4-0-34-1, Ontong 3-0-25-0.

Cape Cobras: A. Puttick c Kohli b Praveen Kumar 11, H. Gibbs c Boucher b Praveen 0, H. Davids c Kohli b Vinay Kumar 27, J.P. Duminy (not out) 99, J. Ontong b Merwe 19, R. Canning c Kumble b Praveen 20, Kleinveldt (not out) 5. Extras (b-1, lb-1, nb-1): 3. Total (for five wickets in 19.4 overs): 184.

Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-14, 3-62, 4-103, 5-164.

Royal Challengers Bangalore bowling: Praveen 4-0-32-3, Kallis 2-0-18-0, Vinay 3.4-0-40-1, Kumble 4-0-35-0, Merwe 4-0-34-1, Kohli 2-0-23-0.

Cape Cobras and Royal Challengers Bangalore,  will clash in the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 on Thursday at Bangalore’s  hinnaswamy Stadium. THhe 23 matches in the 16-day tournament are spread between Bangalore, Delhi and Hyderabad will write a new chapter in cricket history and fills boards coffers with a new money spinner a inter-club tournament at global level

Bangalore Royal Challengers surprised everyone at IPL2  with their fighting spirit and entered finals. The same kind of fighting spirit needs to be displayed to improve their home record. kumble’s captaincy and  Manoj Pandey’s batting play a critical role in this royal challengers squad.

Cobra’s on the other hand is full batting all rounders

Thursday’s game Royal Challenger Bangalore v Cape Cobras, Group C
Start time 20.00 (14.30 GMT)

Hang on for a while, we will provide few links from where you can watch live stream of this inaugural encounter

The weakest team on paper Trinidad & Tobago is lead by Darren gange who is more of test cricker, will lead a low profile Trinidad side.

Trinidad hopes rely on performance of Dave Bravo and Wset Indies wicket keeper Denesh Ramdin who had a strike rate of 149 !

Batting looks quite familiar but bowling is a worry.

Samuel Badree will lead bowling attack who had a economy rate of 4 in Twenty 20 format and supported by Dave mohammed who also
had a economy rate of less than 4 in t20 cricket

Trinidad & Tobago Squad:

Trinidad & Tobago Daren Ganga (capt), Sherwin Ganga, Dwayne Bravo, Darren Bravo, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Lendl Simmons, Dave Mohammed, Kieron Pollard, William Perkins, Samuel Badree, Rayad Emrit, Navin Stewart, Sunil Narine, Adrian Barath.

Schedule:

12 oct Somerset CCC vs. Trinidad & Tobago [A] Bangalore | 16:00 IST

14 Oct Deccan Chargers vs. Trinidad & Tobago [A] @Hyderabad | 20:00 IST

The Otago Volts is powered by almost a full squad of allrounders and seven international players,
including Brendon McCullum, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Ian Butle.

Otago Volts are in a tough pool against the Cape Cobras and the fourth-seeded Royal Challengers Bangalore,

Somerset Champions League Squad:

Craig Cumming (capt), Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Aaron Redmond, Neil Broom, Ian Butler,
Dimitri Mascarenhas, Greg Todd, Hamish Rutherford, Derek deBoorder,
Nick Baird, Warren McSkimming, Neil Wagner, Matt Harvie, James McMillan

Star batsmen: McCullum and Mascarenhas, well every one can contribute with bat in this side

Star Bowlers: None, thats the biggest problem with Otago Volts

Otago Volts Champions league schedule:

10Oct(20:00) @ Hyderabad Cape Cobras Vs Otago Volts

12 0Oct @ Bangalore Royal Challengers Bangalore
vs. Otago Volts