Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali,
Chandigarh.
Toss: Faisalabad Wolves, won the toss and elected to bat
first.
Winner: Otago, they won by 8 wickets
Man of the Match: BB McCullum
So welcome to the first match of the Champions League T20. Today
Faisalabad Wolves faced Otago against each other. Now winning the toss, Wolves
decided to bat first. But their opening batman could not click as they should
be and wolves lost their first wicket at just 5 runs. And Second wicket fell quickly
at just 12 runs. Then Khurram Shehzad and Misbah-ul-Haq, somehow managed to
control the battling line up and they scored 27 and 46 runs respectively. So
the team of Wolves was able to put up a score of 139 runs. The most economical bowler
from Otago was IG butler; he took 2 wickets in 4 over and gave 23 runs.
Now Otago team had to chase
139 total in order to win. There start was really poor as they lost wicket at
zero runs. So then came BB McCullum and he started to hit big shots. Otago team
lost their second wicket on 41 runs. Now on the crease came DC de Boorder who
one side supported McCullum who was playing really good. McCullum scored 83
runs from 71 balls and thus lead his team to victory in just 17.5 over, with 8
wickets remaining. He was declared as man of the match.