NSW seal semifinal berth with crushing win

S Janakiram

Hyderabad, Oct 18 (PTI) Stuart Clark did the spadework
and David Warner then set the tone of the chase as New South
Wales crushed Somerset by six wickets with 8.1 overs to spare
to book a semifinal berth in the Champions League Twenty20
here Sunday.

Clark (3/15) and his bowling colleagues first restricted
Somerset to an unflattering 111 for seven and Warner (40 off
16 balls) then came down hard on the English side as NSW
cruised to 112 in 11.5 overs, losing four wickets and
recording a thumping victory that earned them a semifinal
berth.

Chasing the modest target, the Australian team was off to
a flying start with Warner cracking six boundaries and two
huge sixers during his brief stay as the first five overs
yielded 57 runs.

NSW suffered the first loss when Warner, who started on
an attacking note by hitting two fours off Charl Willoughby
(1/30) in the opening over, fell to Omari Banks (1/28) in the
fifth over.

Warner took 14 runs from the first three deliveries off
Banks with the help of one six and two consecutive fours but
the bowler retaliated soon when Warner's ambitious shot found
Jos Buttler at long-off. More PTI SJR
DDC


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