Champions League Twenty20 2010

[al-Sagar]

South Africa to host Champions League

South Africa will host the next Champions League Twenty20, to run from September 10 to 26, the tournament's organisers have announced. The tournament chairman Lalit Modi confirmed the decision, following a board meeting in Mumbai where it was formally agreed to accept Cricket South Africa's invitation to stage the event. However Modi, under immense scrutiny over the ongoing IPL mess, was not present at that meeting, which took place at the BCCI headquarters on Saturday.

"South Africa is considered an ideal CLT20 host after successfully staging the Indian Premier League and ICC World Twenty20 tournaments in recent years, as well as the strong support shown for its domestic Pro20 Series competition," said Modi via a press release.

The venues and competing teams for the second edition of the Champions League will be announced in the near future, said the tournament management.

The first edition of the tournament was held in India last year. South Africa had hosted the IPL in 2009, after the tournament was moved out of India as it clashed with the country's general elections.

The decision puts to rest the speculation that surrounded the Champions League earlier this year. In February, CSA had announced that South Africa had been finalised as the venue for the tournament, only for Modi to quickly clarify - via Twitter - that the statement was inaccurate. Despite the dates for this season's edition having been announced much earlier, there had been press releases from CSA and the Champions League itself stating that, like in 2009, 12 teams will take part from seven full member countries, including England.

Gerald Majola, the CSA chief, had confirmed the news to Cricinfo earlier in the day while Dean Kino, head of the league's Governing Council, had on Friday stated that a decision regarding the appropriate participating countries was taken each year as policy.

The Champions League features the best domestic Twenty20 teams from across the world and is run by by the boards of India, Australia and South Africa with its governing council comprising representatives from each board. Other countries participate in the tournament by invitation, but Pakistan and Bangladesh are the only two Test-playing countries with no presence in the tournament. Pakistan had sent a representative in the first edition of the tournament, which was cancelled in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008. As ties worsened between India and Pakistan and their cricket boards in the aftermath, the PCB was not eventually extended an invitation to the first tournament and since then it has stated that it will not send a team this year after Pakistan players were not included at the IPL auction in January.

The dates of this year's Champions League clash with the end of England's county season, which finishes on September 16. At the same time, England and Pakistan will be contesting an ODI series that runs until September 22.

they mentioned about no BD and Pak team in the 1st edition. did not mention about any chance or prospect of a BD team playing. i hope BCB takes necessary steps so that a BD team is included

[Imteaz]

Hope so. Good Luck Rajshahi Rangers!!!!!

[nycpro96]

Would be great to see Rajshahi Rangers playing.

[aklemalp]

look out for guyana,from the west indies

[sir john]

guyana a bunch of noobs,

[Ajfar]

I wonder if there will be a fantasy league for this. Was there one last year?

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[aklemalp]

come on,just because trinidad didn't make ti the champioms league,some of you guys here in BC are criticising my country,i love bangladesh cricket team(they are my first priority),then comes guyana in second guyana has a lot of stars to look out for:
RAMNARESH SARWAN
NARSINGH DEONARINE
TRAVIS DOWLIN
THE CRANDON BROTHERS(ESUAN AND ROYSTON)
LENNOX CUSH(THE ONLY PERSON IN THE CARIBBEAN TO TAKE TWO HATTRICKS,NO ONE HAS EVER TAKEN ONE BESIDES HIM)
CHRISTOPER BARNWELL(SOMEWHAT A DWAYNE BRAVO)
JONATHAN FOO(THE HARDEST HITTER OF THE CRICKET BALL IN GUYANA,AND HE'S ONLY 19)
SEWNARINE CHATTERGOON
AND I HAVE TO SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST;
DEVENDRA BISHOO(THE BEST LEG SPINNER IN THE CARIBBEAN,AND SOME SAY THAT HE IS GOING TO BE THE NEXT WARNE)
SO PLEASE CRITICS OF GUYANA LOOK OUT FOR THE STORM THAT IS GUYANA

[sir john]

Originally Posted by aklemalp
come on,just because trinidad didn't make ti the champioms league,some of you guys here in BC are criticising my country,i love bangladesh cricket team(they are my first priority),then comes guyana in second guyana has a lot of stars to look out for:
RAMNARESH SARWAN
NARSINGH DEONARINE
TRAVIS DOWLIN
THE CRANDON BROTHERS(ESUAN AND ROYSTON)
LENNOX CUSH(THE ONLY PERSON IN THE CARIBBEAN TO TAKE TWO HATTRICKS,NO ONE HAS EVER TAKEN ONE BESIDES HIM)
CHRISTOPER BARNWELL(SOMEWHAT A DWAYNE BRAVO)
JONATHAN FOO(THE HARDEST HITTER OF THE CRICKET BALL IN GUYANA,AND HE'S ONLY 19)
SEWNARINE CHATTERGOON
AND I HAVE TO SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST;
DEVENDRA BISHOO(THE BEST LEG SPINNER IN THE CARIBBEAN,AND SOME SAY THAT HE IS GOING TO BE THE NEXT WARNE)
SO PLEASE CRITICS OF GUYANA LOOK OUT FOR THE STORM THAT IS GUYANA

your team is not going to win even a single game,

[dolcevita]

Good luck to them

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[aklemalp]

@sir john,remember a single game is one ,when they will win against royal challengers in the champions league,don't blame me for it,and i will be looking to prove you wrong

[sir john]

Originally Posted by aklemalp
@sir john,remember a single game is one ,when they will win against royal challengers in the champions league,don't blame me for it,and i will be looking to prove you wrong

mate i respect your views,but remember guyana is weakest team of tournament,whole world know this things

[Sovik]

Originally Posted by sir john
mate i respect your views,but remember guyana is weakest team of tournament,whole world know this things

Nobody thought T&T will reach final last year. Guyana will do better than any IPL team

[Baundule]

Originally Posted by sovik
Nobody thought T&T will reach final last year. Guyana will do better than any IPL team

My guess, too. IPL teams do not perform in CL. On the other hand those Guyana guys will give everything to succeed. If the pitch is flat, they can hit anything.

[One World]

Confirmed my directv cricketticket for free HD broadcast of CLeague. Hopefully Guyana will crush everyone.

[Ajfar]

if anyones interested in playing fantasy cricket for champions league pm nadim for the lpin

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[_Rafi_]

Why three Indian teams? Because more teams increase India's possibility to win the title. Idiots.

[One World]

It is not about Indian team winning the title, it is about how much profit can be made from each team included. Adding a team from overseas is like adding a whole country into the mix. If it was possible Bangladeshis should completely boycott IPL and CLeague unless there is one BD representative team in the second.

[Nadim]

Created a fantasy league for this...pm me for the lpin.


Baundele, Ahnaf, MohammedC, OneWorld and Spitfire_x86 already joined.

[al-Sagar]

Originally Posted by nadim 98
Created a fantasy league for this...pm me for the lpin.


Baundele, Ahnaf, MohammedC, OneWorld and Spitfire_x86 already joined.

ektu busy, joining a new job, next time khekbo

[Baundule]

Originally Posted by offstump
ektu busy, joining a new job, next time khelbo

bepar na, join koren, CL shuru hote ekhono somoy ase, er moddhe ekta transfer plan kore felen...

[Ajfar]

The IPL players don't have much to gain from this. They already have an IPL contract. While for players from the other teams this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Look at where Kieron Pollard did, this sort of thing will encourage other players to perform better. I think it will be a good tournament.

[aklemalp]

@sir john,if you say that guyana is the weakest team in the competition,then what do u had to say about t&t last year before they even play a single match,and remember this guyana have beaten t&t the most times in t20 cricket,up to recently on august 29th,come on sir john don't write off a team before u have ever seen them play before.
PS ;i knew that u were a indian,didn't india fall in love with t&t last year,well guyana has a 75%of indians in their team,our fore parents came from uttar pradesh west bengal,so here's a reason for u to support guyana,my team

[aklemalp]

official name of the guyana team is 'GUYANA AMAZON CONQUERERS' this is because we are from south america and part of our country is in the amazon

[Ajfar]

only 4 day left. why so few in the fantasy tournament? No noc bhai, T_E bhai. what's going on?