Former finalists and West Indies champion Trinidad & Tobago roared back into the main draw of the T20 Champions League Championship with a walloping of England's champion Leicestershire by 51 runs here. Lendl Simmons and Adrian Barath put together T&T's highest partnership in T20 cricket, and the bowlers strangled the Leicestershire batsmen into throwing their wickets away on a slow track. Simmons and Barath slowly added pace to reach 139 in 17 overs. Then both openers fell to top edges off successive deliveries. Scores: Trinidad & Tobago 168-2 (Simmons 67, Barath 62, Gurney 2-33) beat Leicestershire 117 for 9 (Taylor 56 n.o., Rampaul 4-14, Badree 2-7, Narine 2-18) by 51 runs. In another match, Steve Snell, who was in the anonymity of Minor Counties cricket last month, proved the unlikeliest of heroes for Somerset with a game-turning late cameo which ended Auckland's Champions League hopes after a last-ball thriller in Hyderabad. Scores: Somerset 126 for 6 (Snell 34 n.o., Hildreth 34) beat Auckland 125 for 7 (Vincent 47 n.o.) by four wickets.
