Champions League T20 Semi-Final : Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs New South Wales Blues Live Streaming
Oct 7, 2011 – In the first semi-final of the Champions League T20 this season, the Royal Challengers Bangalore will look to put it across the 2009-winners New South Wales Blues.
Venue: M Chinnaswamy in Bangalore
Date: October 7, 2011
Time: 2000 hours local time, 1430 hours GMT onwards
Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs New South Wales Blues Live Streaming
The Royal Challengers Bangalore vs New South Wales Blues Champions League T20, 2011 match will be shown live on Star Cricket in India.
For those who love this format of the game for the big hits, this is pure unadulterated Twenty20 porn. Imagine David Warner, Chris Gayle, Shane Watson, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Virat Kohli and Moises Henriques on this true Bangalore track with good skiddy bounce, with pace that aids stroke-making, with dew affecting the already small outfield. Put together, Warner, Dilshan and Kolhi have scored 279 off 152 balls in their previous innings. It won’t be completely inadequate if the team meetings featured only the following words, also in tribute to Graham Dilley: “Let’s give it some humpty.”
Dilley died hours before the Royal Challengers Bangalore and South Australia gave it some fine humpty in the virtual quarter-final on Wednesday. Two-hundred-and-fourteen was chased successfully with a last-ball six, and yet the striking feature of the whole match was the minimal slogging. Daniel Vettori was left marvelling at some of the cover-driven sixes.
Vettori’s four overs for 24 runs also drew mild marvel. He will lead the bowlers’ attempts to come out of this without being violated. It didn’t happen in the last match, although Shaun Tait took an excellent five-for, but such games are often won by a bowler who does something out of the ordinary. Vettori, whose captaincy, particularly his use – or lack thereof – of part-time bowlers, has come under the scanner, will want to be the one doing that something extraordinary. So will Patrick Cummins, the young fast bowler who has impressed everybody with his raw pace. This pitch will only aid his quickness.
Royal Challengers Bangalore squad
DL Vettori*, MA Agarwal, S Aravind, KB Arun Karthik, RR Bhatkal, TM Dilshan, CH Gayle, M Kaif, V Kohli, A Mithun, DP Nannes, AUK Pathan, J Syed Mohammad, SS Tiwary, JJ van der Wath
New South Wales squad
SM Katich*, SR Clark, PJ Cummins, NM Hauritz, JR Hazlewood, MC Henriques, PJ Hughes, NJ Maddinson, SNJ O’Keefe, BJ Rohrer, DLR Smith†, SPD Smith, MA Starc, DA Warner, SR Watson