Trinidad & Tobago v Uva Next – Champions League Twenty20 2012 (Qualifying Pool 2) – Live Score and Match Update – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472&T set Uva 182–run chase
Following the termination of their team’s opening partnership, Darren Bravo and skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/D-Ramdin-c1299 rallied Trinidad & Tobago’s innings with two solid half-centuries, enabling their team to post a total of 181 in their Champions League T20 dead rubber against Uva Next, currently being played at the New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.
With both teams having failed to qualify for the CLT20 main event, which begins on October 13, the result of the match is of no consequence, and provides both sides little more than an opportunity to go out on a positive note.
With little to fear, Trinidad & Tobago rested their key bowlers – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinthaka-Umesh-Jayasinghe-c50613.
Uva Next won the toss and skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/William-Keith-Donald-Perkins-c97489 (32), both of whom went on to set up a 33-run stand.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-McDonald-c1042 (4-0-28-1) in the 6th over.
Simmons, however, stayed at the crease longer, and managed to establish a 46-run stand with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Gul-c94604 (4-0-38-1) intervened in the 10th over, to send Simmons packing. By this point the team was at 86 for 3 – however, Trinidad & Tobago lost no more wickets after that, as skipper Ramdin chipped in with an unbeaten 50.
Bravo and Ramdin smashed a total of 16 boundaries between them, and set up a steady, unbeaten partnership of 95 runs for the 4th wicket, which got the team up to a competitive final total of 181 by the end of 20 overs, at the expense of 3 wickets.
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