It was a triumphant day for the Australians today in the Twenty20 Champions’ League. First New South Wales Blues crushed the Bloemfontein Eagles by 53 runs, then Victoria’s Bushrangers beat the highly fancied Delhi Daredevils by 7 wickets. The Blues now have such a high net run rate that they are almost assured of a place in the next round. Victoria still have the dangerous Sri Lankans to face, but are looking good.
With both Bangalore and Delhi having lost their opening games, the India media will be desperate for a win out of the Deccan Chargers tomorrow. The Hyderabad side come up against the Somerset Sabres, whose Marcus Trescothick has just been named Player of the Year for the recent English season. The Chargers are the reigning IPL champions, but embarrassingly for India they are heavily dependent on their Australian stars, Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds.
Somerset are in great form. Would be wonderful for them to win, after just missing out on top spots in the English season.
It certainly would, but given that they couldn’t take the pressure of being title contenders in domestic competitions I’m not sure I have much hope for them here. They should beat Trinidad & Tobago, and maybe the Sharks, but I think they’ll find the Chargers and Cobras tough going.
Yeah, you’re probably right. Be interesting to see how Tresco holds up though.