Hyderabad, Oct. 13: With the Delhi Daredevils and Royal Challengers Bangalore making it to the next round of the Champions League Twenty20, the third Indian team in fray, Deccan Chargers, are under added pressure to live up to their reputation of being IPL-2 champions and come out victorious in a must-win game against Trinidad & Tobago on Wednesday night.

The Bulls will have to be at their best as they lock horns with the crafty Caribbeans, who shattered Somerset to put a foot in the second stage of the championship.

With a fantastic run-rate of +2.20, T&T are assured of a place in the next level irrespective of Wednesday’s result — they would be deprived of a spot only if they shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly and lose to the Chargers by a large margin. Somerset, who have finished their group engagements, have two points and a run-rate of -1.00 followed by the pointless Chargers on -0.20.

Needing just a win to advance, Adam Gilchrist and his men would be keen to prove a point after losing a close match to Somerset at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium.

But they have a task on hand to get past a side riding high on clinical performance. Openers Lendl Simmons and Williams Perkins got T&T off to a racing start against Somerset on Monday. The Chargers pace battery, headed by Fidel Edwards, will have to bend their backs to ensure the Caribbean combine is separated at the earliest.

Darren Ganga and Denesh Ramdin too have made strong statements with the bat. Add to that the Bravo brothers — Dwayne and Darren, in whom experts have seen a Brian Lara — and you have a line-up that can run up totals that can be troublesome for the opposition.

On the bowling front, leg-spinner Samuel Badree boasts of such accuracy that his captain had the confidence to press him into service in the power play period. Badree delivered.

Contrary to the West Indian tradition, T&T’s strength lies in slow bowling, evident in their opening match — off-spinner Sherwin Ganga and left-arm spinner Dave Mohammed gave away only 34 runs between them in seven overs as they consistently baffled the batsmen with variations. Not to forget ‘Mr Slow-Death’ Dwayne Bravo, who took 4/23 to clean up Somerset.

The islanders are pretty agile in the field too. That means the Chargers will have to match them in every department of the game.

The IPL champs did bowl and field well against Somerset in their previous group match but it was the batting that let them down. It will be the collective responsibility of Gilchrist, Laxman, Symonds and Rohit Sharma to raise a run mountain high enough for the opposition this time around.

Left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha is likely to be Gilly’s trump card in the bowling attack with seamers R.P. Singh, Scott Styris and part-timers T. Suman, Venugopal and Symonds too contributing their mite as the Chargers look to knock the rhythm out of the Calypso Kings.