Cricket Update: Making CLT20 final is a massive achievement for Chevrolet Warriors - Jacobs
Promising XIs of the Eastern Cape franchise, the Warriors, after handing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Australia-c844 Redbacks their first defeat of the league in an impressive style on Saturday, underwent some surprising overnight transformation as the side seemed to be totally botched
in its final show against Chennai Super Kings.
The final of the Airtel Champion League T20 played between the South African Warriors and IPL team Chennai Super Kings was apparently a one sided game being ruled by the Kings. Dhoni and his force took just 82 minutes to wrap up the challenge set by Warriors.
Three-digit opening stand shared between explosive opening partners Michael Hussey and Murali Vijay set Chennai Super Kings on their way to a comfortable eight-wicket victory over the Eastern Cape franchise at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg to bag the
Kings 2010 Champions League T20’s title.
After setting a gettable target of 129 runs for Dhoni’s men, the Warriors simply lacked the bowling armoury to stop the blitz of belligerent Australian batsman Michael Hussey and his opening partner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Murali-Vijay-c78035. Warriors’ bowlers, who bowled brilliantly
in their earlier clashes, seemed out of flair in the final game as they constantly bowled loose balls that were well respected by the Chennai batsmen.
Jacobs had been leading his side from the front all through this year’s Champions League and was a major threat to the Chennai Super Kings but the time he was trapped leg before by Ravichandran Ashwin in the sixth over for 34, Chennai started sniffing this
year’s Champ title. His 34 came off just 21 balls and included eight well timed boundaries. After Jcobs’ dismissal, the rest of the cast failed to get together in any discipline and the Warriors could manage to hit only six fours from 14 overs.
Chennai’s spinners, bowling in tandem, did not let the Warriors batting line-up to set free with their magical spins. Both http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Muttiah-Muralitharan-c78157 bowled at an economy of 4 runs per over picking up two and three wickets apiece from 4
overs.
The skipper of Warriors, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Davy-Jacobs-c1343 too, admired the prolific spinners for their efforts. "Their two spinners really tied us down. Ashwin is a quality bowler and Murali is world class," he said. He also admitted that his cast failed to find a way
to approach its mission with the Chennai spinner bowling in tandem. He said that his side lacked the strategy to counterattack Chennai and after losing some quick wickets from the middle order, the side tried to gain some momentum, but it wasn't Warriors night
according to Jacobs.
Jacobs accepted that his side had met its match, without offering any kind of excuses.
"We have to give credit where it's due, it's not just that we screwed up,"
Jacobs said.
Jacobs was quite disappointed upon the eight-wicket loss in the final show of the league and spoke freely about his side’s wish for the lucrative Champions League’s crown. "We are very disappointed. If someone had told us before that we would lose in
the final, we would have taken it, but once we got here we wanted to win," said the Warriors skipper.
Despite all his melancholy, Jacobs termed the runners-up trophy as the massive achievement for Warriors.
Dejected warrior said that he would have given up all his runs for a victory in the final game. While saying this, Jacobs had in his eyes an expression that was speaking loudly that this self-effacing, candid warrior is surely fated for bigger wins. Let’s
hope that the down-to-earth player will make a comeback next year with a force armed with enough ammunition to overcome any of the strong side.
"We wanted to leave a legacy and I think we have started that," said Jacobs.
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