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Bangalore: Sunil Narine and Kevon Cooper contributed significantly to Trinidad and Tobago's 12-run win over Chennai Super Kings tonight as Group A of the Champions League Twenty20 was thrown wide open.
Narine made optimal use of the slow pitch at the MA Chidambaram Stadium and bowled with control and guile as he ended with dream figures of 4-0-8-3. Narine started the CSK slide when he clean bowled Murali Vijay and then caught Suresh Raina off his own bowling before Ravi Rampaul had Michael Hussey caught behind by Denesh Ramdin with the hosts in deep trouble at 27 for 3 after six overs.
Wriddhiman Saha, who was surprisingly promoted to No. 5, tried to consolidate the CSK innings with S Badrinath, who was struggling with his timing, but he was trapped in front by Cooper as the hosts continued to slide. Badrinath, who scored 14 in 26 balls before he was run out with CSK 52 for 5 in the 12th over.
CSK captain MS Dhoni (7 in 22 balls), who struggled with his timing and found life tough on the slow pitch, was put out of his misery by Narine as he caught him off his own bowling. Rampaul continued to stuggle in the death overs and conceded 35 runs in his four overs. Albie Morkel hit consecutive sixes off the last two balls of the match bowled by Sherwin Ganga.
Earlier, Cooper's late charge helped T and T score 49 runs off the last five overs of their innings and put up a competitive total of 123 for 8 on the slow MA Chidambaram Stadium pitch.
Cooper hit a boundary and three huge sixes in his 10-ball 28 before he was dismissed by Doug Bollinger in the last delivery of T and T's innings, who were given a slow but steady start by Lendl Simmons and William Perkins. The openers added 52 runs in 9.3 overs with Perkins being the more aggressive of the pair even as Simmons struggled with his timing. Perkins hit two boundaries and a couple of sixes in his 28-ball 34 before he was the first batsman to be dismissed when he was caught by S Badrinath at backward point off Shadab Jakati's bowling.
Simmons (20) returned to the dugout soon after when he was run out while attempting a tight single and Jakati, who had a fantastic match with the ball took his second wicket when he caught Darren Bravo off his own bowling as T and T slipped to 57 for 3 in the 12th over.
Daren Ganga and Ramdin failed to make meaningful contributions with the bat, but Adrian Barath, who batted at No. 4 in this match, lent some solidity to the middle order and batted well for his 22-ball 23 before he played down the wrong line to get clean bowled by Bollinger. Jakati (2-18) and Bollinger (3-30) were the pick of CSK's bowlers with Dwayne Bravo and R Ashwin taking a wicket each.
Brief scores
Trinidad & Tobago 123 for 8 (Perkins 34, Cooper 28, Jakati 2-18)
Chennai Super Kings 111 for 6 (Bravo 32*, Narine 3-8)
Results Trinidad & Tobago won by 12 runs
MOM Sunil Narine (Trinidad & Tobago)
Points Trinidad & Tobago 2, Chennai Super Kings 0
