NSW with CL Trophy

NSW celebrates their first edition CL win over Trinidad Tobago by 41 runs in the finals

Australia "The Champs"

Australia celebrate their second consecutive Champions Trophy win, Australia v New Zealand, Champions Trophy final,Centurion

‘No time to prepare, no time to bond’

Posted by ARUN KUMAR.B On 5:49 AM 0 comments
As All Three Indian Teams Tumble Out, Champions League loses 1ts Sheen

New Delhi: With the three IPL teams - Deccan Chargers, RCB and Delhi Daredevils - getting knocked out in the Champions League, the event has lost a lot of zing and popularity stakes. Critics are now also questioning the standard of the lucrative IPL which is part of the Indian domestic calendar Has the Champions League exposed IPL in some ways? One of the main reasons for the flop show of IPL teams, according to some players and officials of IPL teams, is the fact that while many foreign teams are playing like cohesive units because they spend a lot of time together, the IPL will teams didn't have the advantage of being together for sufficient time.
“In an IPLteam, players hardly get time to get used to their teammates so team bonding is difficult. For the Champions League, many key members of
the three teams were busy at- tending national duty and were not available till one or two days before the matches started,'' a Daredevils player told.

“To play as team, you have to develop an understanding of what the team exactly needs from you and how one can perform as a team. If we are not spending enough time together, then it's a problem.

“In the IPL it doesn't show because all the teams are more or less at the same level, but that's not the case in the Champions leaguers the player added.

That also explains to some ex- tent why the IPL teams were looking less than prepared for CL. Several top players did not get enough time to plan and prepare for the T20 event.

Daredevils were also undone by injuries to key men like Vettori and AB deVillers. Meanwhile, RCB'S bowling was week while Decent depended too much on a few Individuals, like skipper Adam Gilchrist and Symonds.

Another reason was that some leading lights of IPL teams opted to play for teams from their own country, thus weakening the to IPL units.

Clark helps NSW seal last-four berth

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Hyderabad: New South Wales Blues packed too many guns for Somerset Sabres in the first match of the Sunday double header

At 44 for five inside 10 overs after the Blues put the opposition ins there was only one way the match was headed at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium after Stuart Clark scythed through the top order, and though the Australian outfit lost four wickets, they finished the match at 112 for four with 49 deliveries to spare

The Somerset top order-Craig Kieswetter, skipper Justin Langer, Arul Suppiah, James Hildreth and Peter Trego -came and went as they pleased and but for the 37-run partnership between Zander de Bruyn (23m 32b, 2x4) and Omari Banks for the sixth wicket, Somerset would have had a lot less than their eventual 111 for seven.
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