SOCCER/English League Cup/Blackburn 3 Huddersfield 1: Craig Bellamy hit a brace and Zurab Khizanishvili also scored his first for Blackburn to end Rovers' month-long goal drought and put them in the League Cup third round.
Making his second start following a return from a thigh injury, Bellamy found the net for the first time since his £5million summer signing from Newcastle in the 11th minute with a confident finish.
And Georgian defender Khizanishvili, on a season-long loan deal from Rangers added another on the hour mark.
Huddersfield's hot-property Pawel Abbott hit his ninth goal of the season with 10 minutes remaining but Bellamy added another just five minutes later to seal victory for the 2002 League Cup champions.
Paul Dickov partnered Bellamy for the first time in attack and they combined well, although both were needlessly booked before half time.
Second in League One, Huddersfield started the game full of confidence and stroked the ball around against a Blackburn team showing four changes from the side which lost 3-0 to Newcastle on Sunday.
However, Rovers ended a 391-minute wait for a goal with Bellamy's breakthrough.
The Wales international picked the ball up deep and raced onto a return ball from Brett Emerton behind the Terriers defence before tucking the ball past Paul Rachubka.
Abbott then sent a free-kick just wide of the post after David Bentley handled just over 20 yards out but Bellamy remained a constant threat, particularly down the left flank, and again out-paced the Town defence.
He could not find Emerton with a cross which was cleared before skipper Ryan Nelsen headed over on two occasions from corners.
Frustrated Rovers were caught offside on eight occasions before the interval and Bellamy was booked for dissent after one flag before Dickov was also shown a card after he put the ball in the net after the whistle had gone for another.
Terriers skipper Jon Worthington rifled narrowly over less than a minute into the second period before another give and go with Emerton saw Bellamy again tear past Nathan Clarke but Rachubka held his shot at the second attempt.
At the other end, substitute Chris Brandon's long diagonal pass found its way to Schofield at the far post but Lucas Neill slid the ball away before he could strike at goal. The action continued with Rachubka getting a hand to Emerton's flick from Robbie Savage's free-kick, but he could do nothing about Khizanishvili's header from Bentley's resulting corner.
Town pulled one back when Brandon slid the ball through to Abbott and he smashed past Brad Friedel to give the visitors hope in the 79th minute. But the visitors were killed off when substitute Morten Gamst Pedersen again played Bellamy through with six minutes left.
The angle of the Welshman's run prevented a challenge from defender John McCombe and he again produced a clinical finish.
BLACKBURN: Friedel, Neill, Khizanishvili, Nelsen, Gray (Mokoena 84), Emerton (Pedersen 71), Savage, Tugay, Bentley, Dickov (Kuqi 86), Bellamy. Subs Not Used: Reid, Enckelman. Booked: Bellamy, Dickov, Emerton. Goals: Bellamy 11, Khizanishvili 60, Bellamy 84.
HUDDERSFIELD: Rachubka, Holdsworth, Nathan Clarke, McCombe, Adams, Mendes (Brandon 45), Carss, Worthington, Schofield (Hudson 78), Abbott, Booth (Taylor-Fletcher 78). Subs Not Used: Collins, Senior. Booked: Schofield, Brandon. Goals: Abbott 79.
Referee: L Probert (Gloucestershire).
