The three wickets in a span of 4 runs put NSW in the driver seat. Ganga and DM Bravo added 47 for the 4th wicket. Ganga made 32 but poor running decision cost his wicket. The ball wrapped on his leg and there was an appeal for leg before. Ganga wanted a single but Bravo was not interested. Before Ganga made a come back, Roher was quick and struk the stumps.
Ramdin joined Bravo and put a 14 runs before Bravo also lost his wicket through a second run out. The poor calling on the second run gave a crucial wicket to NSW.
T&T needed 80 runs in 7 overs. Pollard and Ramdin tried to improvise the run rate but a good throw by Lee from deep extra cover provided another wicket to NSW. Ramdin need to learn how to run. He reached the crease but his bat was on the air.
T&T needed 51 runs in the last 4 overs with 4 wickets in hand. Henriques's over to Pollard changed the equation. He went for 27 runs in one over, the highest run scored in an over in the Champions League.
He started with a wide and then followed by two fours and two sixes in the first four balls. He did not score a run in the 5th ball but the last ball went for a six.
None of the shots were mistimed or edged. All of the hits were perfectly timed and sixes were huge.
24 from 18 balls. Brett Lee went for 8 runs including a boundary by Pollard, but this one was edged to third-man boundary.
16 from 2 overs, but Pollard needed just 3 deliveries from Henriques. Going for 27 runs in the previous over, the bowler wuld have lost the confidence. He was given the ball again. First one was a four and the next two were sixes which also brought Pollard's unimaginable fifty, in record 18 balls. T&T did not lose a match still in this edition of CL.
Earlier, the start for NSW was a record partnership of 121 runs, the first 100-runs partnership for the 1st wicket in this edition of Champions League.
Hughes made 83 in 64 balls with 11 fours and a six while his partner Warner made 63 in 41 with 5 fours and 3 sixes. These two batsmen set the tone for NSW innings as they put 121 in 92 balls.
Rampual went for 38 in 3 overs, but DJ Bravo picked 3 wickets for 31 in his 4 overs.
Scoreboard:
Match # 15, League A
Date: Friday Oct 16, 2009
Teams: T&T v. NSW
Captains: D Ganga and S Katich
Toss: New South Wales, decided to bat
Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Result: T&T won by 4 wickets with 9 balls remaining
Points: Trinad & Tobago 2; New South Wales 0
Man of the Match: K Pollard off Trinad & Tobago
New South Wales Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| P Hughes | c Pollard b DJ Bravo | 83 | 64 | 11 | 1 |
| D Warner | c DJ Bravo b Mohammed | 63 | 41 | 5 | 3 |
| M Henriques | c Simmons b DJ Bravo | 17 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| B Rohrer | c Pollard b DJ Bravo | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| S Smith | not out | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 1) | 2 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 4 wkts in 20 overs | 170 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-121 (Warner, 15.2 ov), 2-164 (Henriques, 19.1 ov), 3-164 (Hughes, 19.2 ov), 4-170 (Rohrer, 19.6 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| R Rampaul | 3 | 0 | 38 | 0 |
| DJ Bravo | 4 | 0 | 31 | 3 |
| S Ganga | 4 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| D Mohammed | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
| L Simmons | 4 | 0 | 33 | 0 |
| S Badree | 1 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
Trinad & Tobago Innings: (171 to win in 20 overs)
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| L Simmons | lbw b Bollinger | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| W Perkins | c Hauritz b B Lee | 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 |
| DJ Bravo | c Bollinger b Henriques | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| D Ganga | run out (Rohrer) | 32 | 26 | 1 | 2 |
| DM Bravo | run out (Warner/D Smith) | 27 | 24 | 0 | 2 |
| D Ramdin | run out (B Lee/D Smith) | 23 | 13 | 3 | 1 |
| K Pollard | not out | 54 | 18 | 5 | 5 |
| S Ganga | not out | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 3, w 3, nb 1) | 11 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 6 wkts in 18.3 overs | 171 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-26 (Perkins, 2.5 ov), 2-26 (Simmons, 3.1 ov), 3-30 (DJ Bravo, 4.2 ov), 4-77 (D Ganga, 11.1 ov), 5-91 (DM Bravo, 12.6 ov), 6-118 (Ramdin, 15.2 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Brett Lee | 3 | 0 | 17 | 1 |
| D Bollinger | 4 | 0 | 22 | 1 |
| M Henriques | 3.3 | 0 | 46 | 1 |
| N Hauritz | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| S Clark | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| S Smith | 2 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
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