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Hyderabad: Trinidad and Tobago produced a superb all-round performance as they spanked Leicestershire Foxes by 51 runs to qualify for the Champions League Twenty20 main tournament on Tuesday.
Riding on openers Adrian Barath and Lendl Simmons' fluent half-centuries, Trinidad and Tobago first produced a solid batting display to post a competitive 168/2 after electing to bat and then restricted Leicestershire to 117 for nine at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
With this win, Trinidad booked a berth in the 10-team main tournament. They had defeated Sri Lanka's Ruhunu Eleven by five wickets in their first Group A qualifier match on Monday.
Chasing 169 for a win, Leicestershire never looked like getting there as they made a disastrous start and crumbled to 20 for 5 inside six overs.
James Taylor (56) waged a lone battle for Leicestershire, hitting four fours and two sixes on his way to unbeaten 56 from 47 deliveries, but eventually ran short of partners.
Pacer Ravi Rampaul was the wrecker-in-chief with figures of four for 14 while Samuel Badree and Sunil Narine chipped in with two wickets each as the Trinidad bowlers made lives of Leicestershire batsmen miserable.
Seven of Leicestershire batsmen failed to even cross the double-digit mark.
Badree dismissed up Andrew McDonald (0) in the very first over as the batsman perished trying to make room on the offside, but was clean bowled in the process.
Leicestershire were left tottering at 20/5 in just six overs and it was left to Taylor and Abdul Razzaq (21) to resurrect the innings.
The duo added 47 runs for the sixth wicket in 46 deliveries to take the team's total past 50-run mark.
With nine overs remaining, Leicestershire needed 122 to win with just five wickets in hand and Razzaq and Taylor tried to make a match out of it but found the asking rate too high.
Razzaq perished in the 14th over trying to go for the maximum off the bowling of Kevon Cooper on the off-side but miscued the shot completely. He was caught by Badree.
Once the veteran Pakistani departed, the lower-order failed to put up any fight.
Rampaul picked up two wickets in two balls in the last over as brilliant all-round display by Trinidad team helped them beat English county champions.
Earlier, Barath scored a strokeful 47-ball 62 with the help of six fours and two sixes, while Simmons played 58 balls for his well-crafted 67, which included seven fours, to help their side post a challenging total.
Simmons started the onslaught for Trinidad, hitting Gurney for two consecutive fours to accumulate 12 runs in the fourth over.
But Barath was not to be left behind as he and smashed captain Matthew Hoggard for two fours in the next over. He then hit left-arm spinner Claude Henderson for a boundary to bring up Trinidad's fifty in 6.4 overs.
For Leicestershire, Harry Gurney was the most successful bowler with figures two for 33.
Brief scores
Trinidad & Tobago 168 for 2 (Simmons 67, Barath 62, Gurney 2-33)
Leicestershire 117 for 9 (Taylor 56*, Rampaul 4-14, Badree 2-7, Narine 2-18)
Results Trinidad & Tobago won by 51 runs
MOM Adrian Barath (Trinidad & Tobago)
