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Group A: Cape Cobras vs Trinidad and Tobbago 4 Oct, Chennai


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ohh SJ' date=' y are u so excited to creat threads man. Almost every game. I wanted to create this thread but i see u already have done. I would have been the lucky charm for the Cobras yaaaar[/quote'] bcz god favours brave man. both team are full of brave players.:--D
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Cobras aim to seal semi-final spot

After the last-ball and one-wicket loss to Mumbai Indians, and the Super Over defeat to New South Wales, one wondered what Trinidad & Tobago would come up with next. Along with MI, T&T did their best to infuse excitement into a tournament that has struggled to pull in crowds. They finally managed to get it right against Chennai Super Kings to give themselves an outside chance of making the semi-finals. T&T have one last opportunity, against Cape Cobras, to add more thrills to the Champions League. It is a must-win game for both sides. While T&T's spinners will look to use the slowness of the Chennai pitch to their advantage, they would have also noted that the Cobras batsmen struggled more against the Super Kings' seamers in their only loss so far. A win tomorrow will put Cobras at the top of Group A and ensure their qualification for the semi-finals. Victory alone will not be enough for T&T, though, as they will need the Super Kings to beat New South Wales to force a three-way tie for the second place. Watch out for … Unlike the T&T spinners, there is nothing mysterious about medium-pacer Kevon Cooper but he has gone for just over five runs an over in the tournament. Even fellow Trinidadian Dwayne Bravo could not go after him in the death. Cooper's 28 at a strike-rate of 280 was the difference against the Super Kings. T&T's next best strike-rate was 121. Cobras will have to be wary on both fronts. You either get Herschelle Gibbs early or else he gets you. New South Wales didn't, and suffered. Super Kings did, and got a target that could be chased. Gibbs will go after all the sliders, wrong 'uns and flicked legbreaks that the T&T spinners try against him. Who will get whom? Team news Barring last-minute injuries, neither side has reason to change their XIs. Stats and trivia Not surprisingly, slow and low Chennai is where batsmen have struggled the most. It has the lowest average per wicket, 21.22, and the lowest economy-rate, 6.80, of the three venues used in the tournament T&T's loss to MI was only the 11th instance of a Twenty20 being decided by the smallest margin of one wicket off the last ball. Quotes "There is still a remote chance of us qualifying. God only knows what will happen in the last game but we still hold faith that we will qualify for the semi-finals." Daren Ganga knows a win tomorrow might not be enough for T&T "We are playing T&T at the end, so their spinners are not complete unknowns to us. We have done a little bit of work on how to face them." Dane Vilas says the T&T spinners are not a mystery for Cobras
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Cobras can handle T&T spin attack: Vilas

Ahead of their must-win Group A match against Trinidad and Tobago, Cape Cobras wicket keeper Dane Vilas today said his team is confident of seeing off Caribbean side's spin attack on the difficult MA Chidambaram strip. "Luckily, we are playing them at the end, so they're not a completely unknown entity," Vilas said at the pre-match media conference here. "We've done some work on them, they bowled brilliantly yesterday. I think the key to the game against Chennai was that they took the pace off (the ball) quite a lot. A lot of bowlers that we've faced have taken the pace off using different variations. So hopefully we've got that covered," he said. Asked to name one area the team needs to improve upon, he said, "It's basically a quarterfinal for us, we have to win this game. We had a long pre-season. One key area we can improve on is probably our fielding. I think we have not been the fielding side we can be in this tournament " Vilas said he is confident about the South African side's spin attack, despite it going for runs in the rain-hit match against Mumbai Indians in Bangalore, when the latter amassed 176/6 in 20 overs. "We're very confident. (The Chennai and Bangalore pitches) are completely different. The one in Chennai helped spin, while the Bangalore one was a lot flatter and a better pitch to bat on. "But we've played three games here and J P (Duminy) bowled a brilliant spell against Chennai, taking four wickets against great players of spin and we've also got Robin Peterson," he said. Asked if china-man bowler Michael Rippon would get a look in against Chennai on a spin-friendly pitch, Vilas said, "I think we'll keep the same team, we're bowling well as a team. (But) guys like Andrew Puttick and Rippon are always ready (if picked)."
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