Look at that picture carefully because apart from Herschelle Gibbs, the Hyderabad Deccan Chargers will no longer be a part of the "Cupwali" extravaganza of Lalit Modi and the Champions League Twenty20, bumped out by Trinidad and Tobago off the last over as they were against the Somerset Sabres.
gibbs with deccan chargers
Herschelle Gibbs' representative team in the CL T20, Cape Cobras, got through to the Super Eights but his IPL team suffering the ignominy of bowing out of the competition at the group stage itself with both matches going to the final over.
It was a strange chase from the Deccan Chargers who were always in the hunt but kept losing wickets to stall their own victory that eventually evaded them.
Adam Gilchrit, the Deccan Chargers captain, must feel rather hollow given that he hit a half century from just thirty-six balls to set Deccan Chargers galloping to a win only to find their feet cut by the loss of wickets at the most inopportune times. There was Venugopal Rao's thirty runs and Rohit Sharma's twenty-five runs but Charges kept losing wickets, two alone in the final over with the Chargers needing eight runs from the final six balls.
Earlier Williams Perkins' thirty-eight got Trinidad and Tobago going and Kieron Pollard's blazing thirty-one runs gave the West Indies team something to look forward to even as Fidel Edwards threatened to clip their wings with three wickets.
Restricted to 149, Dwayne Bravo got them back into the game with three wickets and a final death over that spelt the end of the Chargers' campaign.
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