Posts tagged with ‘Trinidad & Tobago’

There is a certain class of English cricket enthusiast who will have barely registered that the Champions League was even taking place this past two weeks. If you are a member of this class, you would probably snort in derision at the idea that it is set to become one of the most important competitions in cricket.

When England first came across Kieron Pollard last winter, he seemed an ok sort of cricketer of the bits and pieces variety. Today he played an innings for Trinidad & Tobago that can only be described as abuse. The kind of innings that will make an Australian sports psychologist somewhere an awful lot of money.

Deccan Chargers were the champions of the 2nd IPL season. But they have never won a game at their home stadium. Now they have been defeated by the West Indian T20 champions, Trinidad & Tobago as well as the English runners up Somerset.

They lost their tenth wicket off the final ball. It takes a lot of hard work and planning to achieve such perfection in an innings. Somerset were hoping to qualify for the Super 8 by beating Trinidad & Tobago. Instead their net run rate took an antelope-in-the-lion-enclosure type mauling, and they’ll need a favour to get through.