Hyderabad: New South Wales were crowned the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 winners after they snapped Trinidad & Tobago's fairytale campaign with a 41-run victory in a high-voltage summit clash here on Friday.
In the title showdown featuring top two teams of the tournament, it was a battle between Caribbean flair and Australian profressionalism and in the end, NSW had the last laugh with Brett Lee as their star performer.
Put into bat, NSW fumbled and faltered in their innings to slump to 83 for six in the 12th over before finding a messiah in Lee, whose whirlwind 48 off 31 balls, along with Steven Smith's 33, guided them to 159 for nine.
After his batting heroics, Lee (2/10) was in the thick of action again, claiming two quick wickets to reduce T&T to 21 for three in the first eventful 14 balls.
Lee's second delivery castled Wiliam Perkins (zero) and the blond pacer returned to catch Lendl Simmons off his own bowling in the next over.
For T&T, crisis further compounded as Dwayne Bravo (17), and captain Daren Ganga (19) and Denesh Ramadin (16) fell when the team needed them most.
Pollard (26) tried to replicate the form he had shown in the league match against NSW but Nathan Hauritz had other ideas and for T&T, the match was over when Pollard fell in the 15th over.
Earlier, New South Wales discovered a batting hero in Brett Lee whose stunning 48, along with Steven Smith's 33, took the Australians past the 150-mark after they had slumped to 83 for six inside 12 overs.
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