Watch 6th Match of Champions League T20 Warriors vs Victoria Live Streaming free online at Port Elizabeth on 13th Sep 2010 at 15:30 GMT. Once Victoria Bushrangers take the field against the Warriors at St. George’s Park on Friday, all the contenders for the Champions League Twenty20 would have been in action. Victoria are perhaps the side with the best pedigree in the tournament. They have won the Big Bash four out of five times, finished runners-up once, and qualified for this year’s event as Australia’s champions. They were semi-finalists in the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 in India as well.
Victoria, however, are without three excellent Twenty20 players, all of whom played a part in their Big Bash triumph. Royal Challengers Bangalore bought the services of their power-hitters Cameron White and Ross Taylor for these two weeks, while Mumbai Indians retained allrounder Dwayne Bravo, who was also one of Victoria’s overseas players last season. Those losses have weakened a line-up that could have been the tournament’s most formidable but Victoria still possess a strong engine room – David Hussey and Brad Hodge – and an incisive arsenal, which includes fast bowlers Dirk Nannes, Shane Harwood, Clint McKay and Peter Siddle.
They will kick-off their Champions League campaign against South Africa’s domestic champions and one of the stronger sides in the competition. The Warriors entered the tournament $200,000 richer because Bangalore wanted the all-round skills of Jacques Kallis, but his loss has been made up for by a squad filled with proven South African stars and domestic players who can hold their own.
Their bowling line-up – Juan Theron, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Makhaya Ntini and Johan Botha – matches Victoria’s quality and their top order sparkled in the opening game against Wayamba. Colin Ingram and Justin Kreusch, little-known domestic performers, powered Warriors’ chase of 154 and set it up for Mark Boucher to finish off, which he did brutally.
Warriors team
DJ Jacobs*, AG Prince, CA Ingram, JP Kreusch, MV Boucher†, J Botha, CA Thyssen, N Boje, J Theron, M Ntini, LL Tsotsobe
Victoria team
BJ Hodge, RJ Quiney, AJ Finch, DJ Hussey*, AB McDonald, MS Wade†, JW Hastings, GJ Maxwell, CJ McKay, SM Harwood, DP Nannes
