Hyderabad, Oct. 16: Trinidad & Tobago’s Kieron Pollard scored a breath-taking 54 off just 18 balls to guide his team to a memorable four-wicket win over New South Wales Blues in the Champions League Twenty20 encounter at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium here on Friday night.

It was an innings under tremendous pressure with the side needing to chase down 171 for a win. With five batsmen gone, Pollard pummeled the opposition into submission.

His blitzkrieg included five towering sixes and as many fours in a display of hitting that stunned the sparse crowd and the opposition.

T&T started briskly, 24 coming in the first two overs before the Blues hit back, reducing the Caribbean side to 30/3.

With the asking rate climbing all the time, T&T were reduced to 91/5 in 13 overs before Pollard unleashed his barrage of boundaries — including the winning six — to reduce the run-chase to a formality, T&T winning with as many as nine balls to spare. Moises Henriques was the bowler to suffer, going for 43 runs from his last nine balls.

Earlier, NSW were given a flier by openers Phillip Hughes and David Warner who unleashed a flurry of fours to bring up the 50 off just 6 overs.

T&T skipper Darren Ganga resorted to his slow-ball bowlers by the seventh over and did manage to slow things up before Warner smashed 24 runs off spinner Samuel Badree’s only over.

The first wicket yielded 121 runs in 15.2 overs with Hughes going on to 83 from 63 balls in the company of Henriques who took the NSW total past the 150 mark in the 18th over.

Scores: NSW Blues170/4 in 20 overs (Hughes 83, Warner 63, Bravo 3/33) lost to Trinidad & Tobago 171/6 in 18.3 overs (Pollard 54 not out) by 4 wkts