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New South Blues of Australia thrashed the West Indies domestic T20 champions Trinidad and Tobago by 41 runs to clinch the first Champions League T20 title held in Hyderabad. Brett Lee’s all round performance in the finals made the NSW win a jackpot of US$ 2.5 million. NSW blues, who was asked to bat first, got off to bad start with six of those top order batsmen falling at a score of 83 runs in 11.2 overs. Lee, who came at the fall of Smith’s wicket, smashed 5 huge sixes and 1 four to score 48 runs of just 31 balls and helped his team post a decent total of 159 runs in 20 overs before being got out on the last ball of their innings to Rampaul.
Chasing 160, Trinidad and Tobago got a shocker start with their star batsmen’s Perkins and Simmons getting out cheaply for just 0 and 4 runs respectively. With Lee’s twin strike of both of those batsmen allowed NSW blues to bounce back and bowl many tight spells, which made them earn wickets at regular intervals. Keiron Pollard, who shined in T&T victory against Blues in League match, fell for just 26 runs in 15 balls at the team score of 113 runs in 14.6 overs. With the exit of Pollard, other two batsmen threw their wicket away as they were bundled out for just 118 runs in 15.5 overs and made New South Wales win by a margin of 41 runs. Brett Lee who shined in all the departments was declared man of the match and man of the series.
2008 World Series Champions Phillies take an 8-5 victory over Los Angeles Dodgers to take 2-0 lead in the National League Championship series 2009. Los Angeles Dodgers started of the match well by scoring 1-0 run in the top of second. But the Phillies came back strongly in the bottom of the same frame by scoring 4 runs to take comfortable 4-1 lead. Myers and Ruiz both scored the run before Victorino’s two run base hit. Third inning looked exactly similar to that of second inning as the Dodgers again scored a run in the top of the frame and Phillies again managed to score 4 runs to take 8-2 lead in the bottom of third inning. This time Shane Victorino hitting a two run triple along with Myers hitting a single run. Philadelphia Phillies were extremely severe against Chad Billingsley as they scored all their 8 runs against him. In the top of the fourth, Manny Ramirez managed to pull off a three run homer allowed Dodgers to reduce their deficit to 8-5. Then it was the pitchers show for Phillies as Chad Durbin, Myers, Romero, Madson and Brad Lidge controlled Dodgers from scoring a run in the last five frames allowing just two hits which made Phillies seal off 8-5 comfortable victory.
Steffi is the only player in history to win a gold medal in Olympic along with all the three Grand Slams in the same year (1988). Steffi has always been a unstoppable player in Grand Slam tournament as she won 22 titles to her name. She won 4 Australian Open title, 6 French Open title, 5 US Open title and a amazing record of 7 Wimbledon titles. She has won 107 titles in total which is considered as third in all-time rankings. She retired from international arena in the year 1998 ranked as number 3rd player in the world.