Champions League Twenty20 2013, 1st match, Group A Champions League T20 5th Qualifying Match Summary
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Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Toss: Otago won the toss and elected to field first.

Winner: Otago won by 5 wickets and 22 balls still remaining to be bowled.

Man of the Match: NL McCullum for his 2 crucial wickets.

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This is the 6th Qualifying match of Champions League between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Otago. Otago has already qualified as they have won their both match. Otago won the toss and choose to field first. Batting first Sunrisers were restricted by the bowling of NL McCullum.  He took top two wickets of Sunrisers PA Patel and S Dhawan and the whole top order got a bad start. But then JP Duminy came in and he played some good shots. In just 38 balls he scored 57 runs. So finally Sunrisers were able to put up a score of 143 runs in front of the Otago team.

Otago team from the very beginning looked very promising and they started well. A good partnership between HD Rutherford and BB McCullum of 43 runs made sure that they will win this match. DW Steyn from the Sunriser side took two wickets and bowled 3 over. The impressive batting by McCullum of 69 runs, out of 39 balls is something that made them win this match. He hit five 4s and five 6s. Otago were playing so fast that, in just 16.2 over, they scored 144 runs and with 5 wickets in their hand. So, Otago team won all the matches of qualifying group.  

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