International 20:20 Club Championship
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The International 20:20 Club Championship is an international Twenty20 competition for club cricket teams similar to football's FIFA Club World Championship.
The inaugural competition was hosted by Leicestershire County Cricket Club from 15 to September 17, 2005.
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[edit] Squads
[edit] Match details
[edit] Preliminary Rounds
[edit] Chilaw Marians v PCA Masters XI (15 September)
No result; PCA Masters (2pts) beat Chilaw Marians (0pts) 6-2 in bowl-out
Only thirteen deliveries were possible outdoors at Grace Road in the inaugural Twenty20 Club Championship match. West Indian off-spinner Chris Gayle bowled an expensive first over, conceding 16 runs including five off wides, and Chilaw Marians made 21 for no loss from 13 balls. However, rain forced the players inside, where the PCA Masters XI won the bowl out competition by a margin of 6-2. (Cricinfo scorecard)
[edit] Leicestershire v Faisalabad (15 September)
No result; Leicestershire (2pts) beat Faisalabad (0pts) 5-3 in bowl-out
Rain fell steadily on Grace Road as the second of three scheduled Twenty20 matches in the Twenty20 Club Championship on 15 September 2005 was rained off. The match result was decided by an indoor bowl out competition, which Leicestershire won 5-3. (Cricinfo scorecard)
[edit] PCA Masters XI v Titans (15 September)
No result; PCA Masters (2pts) beat Titans (0pts) 6-5 in bowl-out
Titans and PCA Masters XI were held indoors by the weather, and a bowl out determined the result. After both sides had used five players, the score was still 5-5, but Paul Harris missed the stumps while Jon Lewis hit, giving PCA Masters the win and a semi-final place. (Cricinfo scorecard)
[edit] Somerset v Faisalabad (16 September)
Faisalabad (2pts) beat Somerset (0pts) by 30 runs
Faisalabad Wolves overcame the reigning English Twenty20 Cup champions Somerset Sabres thanks to the all-round efforts of Mohammad Hafeez. Opening the batting, he hit six sixes and six fours in a 35-ball 79, and helped by the 17 extras and 40 from Ijaz Ahmed junior, the Pakistani club made 207 for 5. Arul Suppiah took one wicket and conceded five runs for Somerset in his lone over, but was still taken off, possibly due to the two wides he bowled. Somerset needed 10.35 off every over, and they took ten off the first, but wicket-keeper Carl Gazzard had to retire hurt and Wood was caught by Hafeez, leaving the score at 31 for 2 (effectively, counting Gazzard's retirement as a wicket) with Ian Blackwell at the crease. He took 14 fours and two sixes in a 48-ball 82, but once he departed the remainder of the batting order failed to keep up with the asking rate of nearly twelve an over. Hafeez wrapped up the tail, taking three for 23, but credit also went to Samiullah Khan, who earlier dismissed Somerset opener Matthew Wood and number four James Hildreth. (Cricinfo scorecard)
[edit] Titans v Chilaw Marians (16 September)
Chilaw Marians (2pts) beat Titans (0pts) by 67 runs
This match, effectively a quarter-final as the PCA Masters XI already had qualified for the semi-finals through their two bowl out wins, started with Morne Morkel bowling a ten-ball over for the Titans, including two no balls and two wides. He conceded twenty-six runs, and Chilaw Marians made it to 43 for no loss in the first two overs, with Mbhalati bowling an eleven-ball over. Morkel got Charith Sylvester out in the third over, but it didn't stop the Marians, as Sylvester's opening partner Ishan Mutaliph slashed 32 in 14 deliveries before he was caught by Pieter de Bruyn. Spin bowler Paul Harris managed to get two batsmen out with successive balls and the Marians were set back to 98 for 4 after nine overs. Then, the number six Nimesh Perera hit South African international Albie Morkel for boundaries to end wiith hit 39 from 18 deliveries before wicket-keeper Kruger van Wyk had him stumped off part-time off-spinner Johannes Myburgh, who got three wickets for 16 as Chilaw Marians lost their last five for 22 to finish on 179.
However, the Marians did enough with the ball to win the game, with Manoj Chanaka dismissing pinch hitter Albie Morkel with the second ball of the match, and continuing to plug away. Chanaka and Dinuka Hettiarachchi got two wickets each in the opening ten overs, but Pieter de Bruyn and van Wyk nurdled the runs about in a partnership lasting 34 deliveries. However, they added 43 runs at that time - well below the average asking rate - and thus the Titans needed 74 from the last 30 deliveries. Off spinner Janaka Gunaratne took four wickets as the Titans lost five wickets for six runs and finished on 112. (Cricinfo scorecard)
[edit] Leicestershire v Somerset (16 September)
Leicestershire (2pts) beat Somerset (0pts) by 66 runs
The hosts Leicestershire Foxes could conceivably have been knocked out of the tournament with a loss in this match, but three knocks worth more than 35 runs and bowling two maiden overs helped them to a 66-run win. HD Ackerman (run-a-ball 28) and Darren Maddy (42) hit plenty of boundaries in the opening overs to give Leicestershire 76 runs for the first wicket. Maddy took a particular liking to young seamer Richard Woodman, whom he took for 16 in an over. Then, both openers fell within the space of three balls, but Dinesh Mongia pushed onward with John Sadler, to add 79 for the third wicket. A few lofted shots to fielders int he deep led to three catches in the final overs, and the final score was 171 for 6, Woodman repairing his figures somewhat with a 19th over that yielded two wickets and went for only five runs, and Leicestershire only added 15 from their last 15 balls.
Somerset Sabres started positively in the chase, making their way to 32 for 2 after four overs, but a wicket maiden over from David Masters - including the wicket of Somerset captain Ian Blackwell - set them back. Their batsmen from three through seven were all dismissed in single figures, and though John Francis made 49, Somerset still needed 91 for the last three wickets. 18-year-old wicket-keeper Sam Spurway made his Somerset debut in this match, standing in for the injured Carl Gazzard, and Spurway made 15 not out, seeing out the last overs as Somerset closed on 106 for 8 to be knocked out of the tournament. (Cricinfo scorecard)
[edit] Group Tables
| Team | Pld | Won | Lost | NR | Pts | NRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group A | ||||||
| Leicestershire Foxes | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | +3.30 |
| Faisalabad Wolves | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +1.50 |
| Somerset Sabres | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -2.40 |
| Group B | ||||||
| PCA Masters XI | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 0.00 |
| Chilaw Marians | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +3.35 |
| Nashua Titans | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | -3.35 |
1 Won one bowl out 2 Lost one bowl out 3 Won two bowl outs
Points system:
- 2 points awarded for a victory
- 1 point awarded to each team for a tie
- If the match was cancelled and a no result declared, the winner of a bowl out competition were to be awarded two points.
[edit] Semi-Finals
[edit] Leicestershire v Chilaw Marians (17 September)
Chilaw Marians won by nine runs and qualified for the International 20:20 Club Championship Final
Chilaw Marians failed to convert 33 for 1 after four overs into an above-average total against Leicestershire Foxes, as David Masters' medium pace bowling shook up the visitors. Masters got a wicket in each of his first three overs, ending with figures of 4-1-7-3. With the score 57 for 6 after 10.3 overs, Chilaw were forced to consolidate, although captain Hasantha Fernando hit two straight sixes off Dinesh Mongia. However, Ottis Gibson came back to rip out two wickets at the death, and Chilaw Marians closed on 112 for 9.
The Leicestershire batsmen, however, decided to offer their pads to everything, and the fast bowlers Manoj Chanaka and Hasantha Fernando shared five wickets in the opening seven overs - three lbw, one bowled as the ball hit the pad and then the stumps, and one clean bowled. No batsman passed 15 in the first ten overs, in which Leicestershire lost six men, and only HD Ackerman got into double figures. Leicestershire needed a rebuilding effort from Jim Allenby and Jeremy Snape, but Snape was caught behind off by slow left arm bowler Dinuka Hettiarachchi, leaving them needing 70 runs to win for the last four wickets. Two further lbws set them 26 from the last two overs - after a 27-run stand between Ottis Gibson and Paul Nixon, and despite Charl Willoughby hitting a six with the first ball of the final over, the last two batsman were run out, giving Chilaw a nine-run victory. (Cricinfo scorecard)
[edit] PCA Masters XI v Faisalabad (17 September)
Faisalabad beat PCA Masters XI by three wickets to qualify for the International 20:20 Club Championship Final
In conditions where the first match had seen 5.37 runs hit in every over, the PCA Masters XI started well with Chris Gayle and Craig Spearman adding 17 for the first wicket, but Faisabalad Wolves' Samiullah Khan and Imran Khalid fought back with two wickets each - Samiullah getting Gayle bowled, while Imran removed Phil DeFreitas and Martin McCague (who had just before his dismissal hit Imran for six). Thus, the Masters XI were 56 for 6, The former Indian international Robin Singh added 32 with Mark Hardinges through gentle hitting of the ball around the pitch, and was also helped by a dropped catch while on 29. He departed in the nineteenth over, though, giving an easy catch to Naved Latif for 38, one ball after hitting a straight six. However, Parthiv Patel and Martyn Ball added seventeen in the final over, despite Samiullah Khan catching Patel on the fourth ball of the over, and those 17 runs boosted the total to 138 for 9.
Jon Lewis and Mark Hardinges took one wicket each with the new ball as they only conceding three runs from the first nine balls, but a few lofted boundaries from Abdul Mannan and Naved Latif saw the Wolves' third-wicket stand reach 38 from just fifteen deliveries and the asking rate crept down towards six an over. Wickets fell, but Latif continued to hit boundaries, ending with 36 when a straight ball from Chris Gayle had him lbw. Gayle continued to beat the bat, ending with three for 13 off his four overs, and his spell left the Wolves needing 36 from 30 balls. However, Mohammad Salman hit at just the pace required, ending with 28 not out including one six off Robin Singh. Tauqeer Hussain was left needing a single to win the game off the last ball, hit it for four, and Faisalabad qualified for the final. (Cricinfo scorecard)
[edit] Final
[edit] Chilaw Marians v Faisalabad (17 September)
Faisalabad won by five wickets and won the International 20:20 Club Championship
Chilaw Marians won the toss in the inaugural final of the International 20:20 Club Championship, and opted to bat first against Faisalabad Wolves. In the first over, they lost their opener Charith Sylvester lbw for 0, only to score a leg bye off the next ball and then have Ishan Mutaliph hit 12 runs off three balls. However, coming back for the third on the last ball, his partner Arosha Perera was run out. The loss of wickets did not stop Mutaliph, however, who hit two sixes and two fours before he was caught off left-armer Samiullah Khan for 25. The dismissal of Mutaliph slowed the run rate, as Chilaw Marians wanted to build from 32 for 3, but they needed 24 extras and 37 from Nimesh Perera to get a total of 132.
Mohammad Hafeez helped the Wolves to 50 in 5.4 over, hitting six fours in a 31 before he was dismissed lbw by spinner Dinuka Hettiarachchi, and despite Hettiarachchi taking three for 19, Naved Latif hit three sixes in a 33-ball 45 not out to see Faisalabad to a five-wicket win with eleven balls to spare - ending the game with a straight six off Nimesh Perera. (Cricinfo scorecard)
