Sydney Sixers win Champions League Twenty20 final by 10 wickets
ENGLISHMAN Michael Lumb have blasted an unbeaten 82
to lead the Sydney Sixers to a powerhouse 10-wicket success in the Champions
League Twenty20 final.
The Sixers are the world's best Twenty20 franchise -
not to talk about $2.5 million richer - after they stunned place of birth
heroes Highveld at the Wanderers.
Needing 122 for victory after paceman Josh Hazlewood
and spinner Nathan McCullum took three wickets each, the Sixers did not manure
about with Lumb and skipper Brad Haddin attainment the blot in the 13th over.
Man-of-the-match Lumb was drop on 17, and made sure
he punish the Lions for the blunder, crunch eight limits and five sixes in a
knock that finally turned the game into a mis-match.
And when Haddin was dropped the next over by Dwaine
Pretorious at deep square leg, the skipper said the Lions were never going to
bounce back.
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