Sydney Sixers all set to unleash pacers – Cricket News Update
Australia’s Sydney Sixers will be counting on the fearsome pace battery to outdo the star-studded IPL sides in the high profile Champions League T20 tournament, said Sixers’ star Steve Smith, on Friday.
Sydney Sixers, the 2011-12 Big Bash champions, possess a fearsome pace arsenal featuring the likes of young guns http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558.
Both Starc and Cummins starred for the mighty Aussies in the recently concluded http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, and must be high on confidence, while Watson clinched the Player of the Tournament accolade in the mega event, for his startling performances with the bat and ball.
The Sixers will be, however, without ace pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BW-Hilfenhaus-c1204, will turn out for former CLT20 champs Chennai Super Kings.
But the absence of the duo is not bothering Brad Haddin and men, who are focused on exploiting Indian batsmen’s inability to play short-pitched deliveries.
"Our big aim is to really get stuck into the Indian batters, I'm not sure all of them like it up around their ears," Sixers' star http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Steven-Barry-Smith-c91279 told AAP.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BJ-Haddin-c1170 urged the whole team to perform.
"If we want to go far in this competition, we've got to play well as a team," said the wicketkeeper batsman.
The fourth edition of the esteemed T20 league, featuring the domestic champions from around the world, gets underway in Centurion, South Africa, today, October 13, 2012.
Ten teams, divided into two groups of five each, will participate in the tournament. Group A comprises http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754).
Sydney Sixers have been drafted in Group B, which also features IPL sides http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 and English county Yorkshire (qualifier Pool 2).
Sixers will kick start their CLT20 campaign against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867, in Cape Town tomorrow, Sunday, October 14, 2012.
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