Trinidad & Tobago Look First Win Against New South Wales

Chennai: New South Wales Blues will be looking to capitalise on the absence of Trinidad & Tobago's Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo to do a re-run of the 2009 CLT20 final when the two sides face off on Wednesday.

Pollard and Bravo were part of the West Indian outfit two seasons ago when T&T finished runners-up. Both sides are placed on an even keeling, having lost their respective opening encounters.

While T&T will be keen to make amends for their narrow defeat to Mumbai Indians in a last-ball thriller, the Australian side would want to bury the ghosts of their last match, having slumped to a seven-wicket defeat against Cape Cobras.

NSW are a superior side on paper - boasting of a robust batting line-up with the likes of Shane Watson and David Warner - but have not quite played to their

T&T underperformed big time with the bat, several of their players had an off day but it was an especially bad one for Denesh Ramdin. The former West Indies vice-captain is back in the national reckoning - he's been picked for the Bangladesh tour and is a senior member of the T&T side - but will feel a bit of pressure after his duck and that missed run-out in the previous game. William Perkins is an attacking opener and a wicketkeeping option. T&T may not make any changes but their batsmen need to recover, and quickly.

NSW went in with three spinners in their previous game, though Steve O'Keefe didn't do much. If at all, they might make a change in their attack depending on the conditions.

Teams from

New South Wales SM Katich (capt), SR Watson, PJ Cummins, NM Hauritz, JR Hazlewood, MC Henriques, PJ Hughes, NJ Maddinson, SNJ O'Keefe, BJ Rohrer, DLR Smith (wk), SPD Smith, MA Starc, DA Warner, SR Clark

Trinidad & Tobago D Ganga (capt), S Badree, AB Barath, DM Bravo, K Cooper, RR Emrit, ST Gabriel, S Ganga, D Mohammed, JN Mohammed, SP Narine, WKD Perkins, D Ramdin (wkL, R Rampaul, LMP Simmons

Stats and trivia

• Kieron Pollard has struck the most sixes for T&T in Twenty20 matches, but next in line is opener Lendl Simmons with 22. The most fours, however, have been struck by William Perkins - 60.
• David Warner is the highest run-getter for NSW in Twenty20 cricket - 924 in 30 matches. The next best is 397 runs behind, but he has played 17 games less at a better average - Phil Hughes.

Match facts
Wednesday September 28, 2011 (day/night)
Start time 1600 local (1030 GMT)