Airtel Champions League T20: Wayamba vs. Central Districts
The competitiveness of 2010 Champions League T20 can be better judged from the fact that it has taken the final league game in both groups to decide the semi-finalists – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Australia-c844 Redbacks are an exception. This is the reason that this year’s tournament
has witnessed very few dead-rubber fixtures, in fact, only one so far.
The first inconsequential game of the league was played between Group B’s unbeaten South Australia and listless Guyana on Monday at Johannesburg. The Redbacks, who had already qualified for the semi-final prevailed in the dead-rubber adding two more points
to its chart.
Both http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Central-Districts-c777 and Wayamba have lost all their games to this point but the former have been quite impressive. It was the lack of depth that has hurt Central Districts in fact. The skipper of the Central Districts Jamie How is enjoying third place
in the tournaments run-chart, having scored 178 runs in the tournament. South Australia’s skipper Michael Klinger is leading the chart with a tally of 213 runs followed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aaron-Finch-c881 who has compiled 197 runs from four matches.
How has been dismissed once in three innings and has scored two half-centuries in the tournament. However, he has been lacking support in all his three innings. The lack of support is obvious from the distant second-best Kieran Noema-Barnett who has scored
a total of 66 in the tournament from 3 games. When it comes to the bowling department for the Central Districts, all the bowlers have conceded runs generously. This is the reason that despite setting up competitive totals like they did against the Bushrangers
and Warriors, they failed to put the opposition line-up under pressure.
Wayamba’s on the other hand struggle throughout the tournament and has given cricket lovers the feeling as if they are in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 only to make up the numbers. Wayamba, playing with a side featuring all the eleven players with international experience,
has played in an insipid manner, losing all of its three games without showing a semblance of a fight.
Mahela Jayawardene has said that the reason behind his side’s failure in the tournament was lack of decent partnerships.
"We had two good warm-up games. Ever since then we haven't been able to string two or three decent partnerships with the bat which is vital in T20 cricket."
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Doug-Bracewell-c1394 finished with figures of 1 for 54 from 3.1 overs and has become the most expensive bowler of this year’s Champions League at this point. Peter Ingram, after logging only six runs from three innings can also expect a sideline in the match.
This leaves a big question mark when it comes to the opening partner of skipper Jamie How. Would he persist with his opening partner?
The out-of-flair Wayamba might bring in Farveez Maharoof, given that the bowler has rehabilitated from his injury. A fit again Maharoof would mean no place for Chanaka Welegedara in the playing XI against the Central Districts. Welegedara has gone for an
economy of almost 11 runs an over in the league.
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