Sydney Sixers v Yorkshire – Champions League Twenty20, 2012 (Group B) – Live Score and Match Update – Gale, Jaques fall early as Yorkshire reach 43 for 2
Yorkshire’s debut in the Champions League Twenty20 got off to a faltering start in their first match, currently being played against the Sydney Sixers at Newlands in Cape Town today on October 16, when their experienced opening duo of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Phil-Jaques-c2182 and skipper
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Gale-c1039 crashed out of the game early in the innings, leaving the team at 43 for 2 by the end of 10 overs.
Yorkshire, runners up from this year’s edition of the Friends Life t20, made it to the main event after breezing through the qualifying stages of the CLT20, while the Sixers, current reigning Big Bash League champions, qualified for the event directly, and
went on to demolish the Chennai Super Kings in their first match of the tournament.
Yorkshire went into today’s match with an unchanged XI from the one which defeated Trinidad & Tobago in the qualifying stages. The Sixers, however, made one change, bringing in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nic-Maddinson-c79322. While Maddinson was the leading run-scorer
in the BBL, the change is no doubt motivated by the team’s need to keep all their batsmen up to par, after veteran all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558 has been ordered to return home early from the competition, in order to prepare for Australia’s upcoming summer season.
The match kicked off with Yorkshire winning the toss and electing to bat first. While batsmen such as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AU-Rashid-c1106 have stepped up for the team on
numerous occasions, the most experienced batsmen in the line-up are the opening pair of skipper Gale and Jaques.
The two got the team off to a fair start, setting up a 30-run opening partnership. However, the 6th over saw the skipper making his exit, dismissed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Josh-Reginald-Hazlewood-c69504 after a mere 8-run contribution. Jaques fared better by a small margin, and had
gotten his individual total up to 21 before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mitchell-Aaron-Starc-c76392 intervened in the very next over to send him packing.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867 will be banking on Root and Lyth for a steady partnership, which
might enable them to post a fighting total by the end of 20 overs.
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