Diamond Eagles vs Sussex Sharks - 2009 Champions League Twenty20

Diamond Eagles beat Sussex Sharks in the Group D match of the Champions League Twenty20 2009. Sussex Sharks won the toss and chose to bat first. They scored 119 for loss of 7 wickets in their twenty overs. In reply, Diamond Eagles started off really well, but lost their way in the middle and scored 119/4 in twenty overs. The match was tied and it went to the Super Over. Diamond Eagles scored 9/0 in the Super Over, setting a target of 10 for the Sussex Sharks. Coreius de Villiers picked up two wickets in the first two balls and won the match for Eagles.

Sussex Sharks: 119/7 (20 overs); Joe Gatting 25(22), Cornelius de Villiers 2/20 (4 overs), Dillon du Preez 2/23 (4 overs)
Diamond Eagles: 119/4 (20 overs); Rilee Rossouw 65(62), Piyush Chawla 2/17 (4 overs), Rory Hamilton-Brown 2/15 (3 overs)
Eliminator Over: Diamond Eagles: 9/0 (1 over), Sussex Sharks: 0/2 (2 balls)
Toss: Sussex Sharks won the toss and chose to bat first
Match Tied and will go to the Eliminator.
Result: Diamond Eagles won the match in the Super Over.
Player of the match: Rilee Rossouw 65(62)

Eliminator Over

Diamond Eagles: 9/0 (1 over)
Sussex Sharks: 0/2 (0.2 overs)

Super Over / Eliminator

Diamond Eagles beat Sussex Sharks by 9 runs in the Super Over.

Sussex Sharks

Ball 2: Bowled again.... What a game!!! Diamond Eagles won the match and goes to the next stage. Corneius de Villiers does it for the Eagles.
Sussex Sharks: 0/2 (0.2 overs)

Ball 1: Bowled!! Good start... Dwayne Smith is Bowled with 0 on the board. 10 runs required from 5 balls.
Sussex Sharks: 0/1 (0.1 overs)

Dwayne Smith and Luke Wright are the batsmen for Sussex Sharks. Corneius de Villiers will bowl the Super Over for Diamond Eagles.

The target is 10 runs for Sussex Sharks in the Super Over.

Diamond Eagles

Ball 6: Last ball coming up. A single and a run out off the last delivery. Eagles finish with 9 runs in the Super over.
Diamond Eagles: 9/0 (1 over)

Ball 5: No runs off the fifth delivery. That's another good delivery from the bowler.
Diamond Eagles: 8/0 (0.5 overs )

Ball 4: A beautiful SIX over mid-on off the fourth delivery.
Diamond Eagles: 8/0 (0.4 overs)

Ball 3: No runs from the third ball. That's a good delivery from Yasir Arafat.
Diamond Eagles: 2/0 (0.3 overs)

Ball 2: Single from the second ball.
Diamond Eagles: 2/0 (0.2 overs)

Ball 1: Yasir Arafat to bowl for Sussex Sharks. Rossouw and McLaren are the batsmen for Eagles. Single from the first ball for Diamond Eagles.
Diamond Eagles: 1/0 (0.1 overs)

Eliminator: Each team will nominate three batsmen and one bowler, if they lose two wickets the innings is considered over. If the Eliminator over is another tie, the team with most number of sixes in the Eliminator wins.

Hours of Play

First Session: 20:00-21:20
Interval: 21:20-21:40
Second Session: 21:40-23:00

Match Officials

Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena, Sanjay Hazare
TV Umpire: Billy Doctrove
Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama
Reserve Umpire: Subroto Das

Squads

Diamond Eagles

Boeta Dippenaar (captain), Ryan Bailey, Jandre Coetzee, Cornelius de Villiers, Dillon du Preez, Dean Elgar, Reeza Hendricks, Alan Kruger, Adrian McLaren (wicket keeper), Ryan McLaren, Victor Mpitsang, Rilee Rossouw, Thandi Tshabalala, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Morne van Wyk

Sussex Sharks

Michael Yardy (captain), Will Beer, Ben Brown, Piyush Chawla, Joe Gatting, Rory Hamilton-Brown, Andy Hodd (wicket keeper), Ed Joyce, Chad Keegan, James Kirtley, Robin Martin-Jenkins, Chris Nash, Dwayne Smith, Luke Wright, Yasir Arafat

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