Airtel Champions League Twenty20 2009

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Airtel Champions League Twenty20 2009 will be the first edition of the international club cricket tournament. It will be held in India between October 8 and October 23 2009.The tournament is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between clubs from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies.The winners will earn around USD $6m.

The Twenty20 Champions League is chaired by Lalit Modi, who is the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and Vice-President of the BCCI.
The first edition was set to take place from late September to early October 2008 in India, after the tournament organisers resolved various teething problems that had put the inaugural tournament under some doubt,but it was later announced that the tournament would be held from December 3 to December 10, 2008.The tournament was postponed again following terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 and later cancelled,with the first tournament now scheduled for October 2009.

Indian mobile service Bharti Airtel has bought the title sponsorship rights of the champions league for the reported amount of Rs.170 crores.

Qualified Teams

Airtel Champions League Twenty20 2009 would consist of 12 teams from 7 countries. The qualifiers are:

* The winners, runners-up and third placed team of the Indian Premier League in India

DECCAN CHARGERS
BANGALORE ROYAL CHALLENGERS
DELHI DAREDEVILS

* The winners and runners-up of the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash in Australia

NEW SOUTH WALES BLUES
VICTORIA BUSHRANGERS

* The winners and runners-up of the Standard Bank Pro 20 Series in South Africa

CAPE COBRAS
DIAMOND EAGLES

* The winners and runners-up of the Twenty20 Cup in England and Wales

SUSSEX SHARKS
SOMERSET SABRES

* The winners of the State Twenty20 from New Zealand

OTAGO VOLTS

* The winners of the Stanford 20/20 from West Indies

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

* The winners of the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 from Sri Lanka

WAYAMBA

There will be a total of 23 matches and the teams will be divided into Four Groups of three each to play on a league basis before the Top Two teams from each group move on to the second stage.The four top teams from there will play the semi-finals and the top two teams will play FINAL on Oct 23rd at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad.

Groups

Fixtures

GROUP MATCHES

LEAGUE MATCHES

Semi-Final and FINAL

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DECCAN CHARGERS

Adam Gilchrist [Captain]

Azhar Bilakhia
Harmeet Singh
Ryan Harris
VVS Laxman
Pragyan Ojha
Rohit Sharma
Shoaib Ahmed
RP Singh
Scott Styris
Tirumalasetti Suman
Andrew Symonds
Chaminda Vaas
Venugopal Rao

BANGALORE ROYAL CHALLENGERS

Anil Kumble [Captain]

Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Balachandra Akhil
Rajesh Bishnoi
Mark Boucher
Rahul Dravid
Jacques Kallis
Virat Kohli
Praveen Kumar
Manish Pandey
Dale Steyn
Ross Taylor
Robin Uthappa
Roelof van der Merwe
Vinay Kumar
Jesse Ryder

DELHI DAREDEVILS

Gautam Gambhir [Captain]

Rajat Bhatia
Paul Collingwood
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Dinesh Karthik
Mithun Manhas
Amit Mishra
Dirk Nannes
Ashish Nehra
Aavishkar Salvi
Pradeep Sangwan
Virender Sehwag
Owais Shah
Manoj Tiwary
Daniel Vettori
AB de Villiers

OTAGO VOLTS

Craig Cumming [Captain]

Nick Beard
Neil Broom
Ian Butler
Derek de Boorder
Matt Harvie
Brendon McCullum
Nathan McCullum
James McMillan
Warren McSkimming
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Aaron Redmond
Hamish Rutherford
Greg Todd
Neil Wagner

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Daren Ganga [Captain]

Samuel Badree
Adrian Barath
Dwayne Bravo
Darren Bravo
Rayad Emrit
Sherwin Ganga
Dave Mohammed
Sunil Narine
William Perkins
Kieron Pollard
Denesh Ramdin
Ravi Rampaul
Lendl Simmons
Navin Stewart

WAYAMBA

Jehan Mubarak [Captain]

Ishara Amerasinghe
Sameera de Zoysa
Rangana Herath
Mahela Jayawardene
Shalika Karunanayake
Jeevantha Kulatunga
Kaushal Lokuarachchi
Farveez Maharoof
Ajantha Mendis
Thissara Perera
Isuru Udana
Mahela Udawatte
Michael Vandort
Chanaka Welegedara

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NEW SOUTH WALES BLUES

Simon Katich [Captain]

Aaron Bird
Doug Bollinger
Stuart Clark
Nathan Hauritz
Moises Henriques
Phillip Hughes
Simon Keen
Brett Lee
Steve O'Keefe
Ben Rohrer
Daniel Smith
Steven Smith
Dominic Thornely
David Warner

VICTORIA BUSHRANGERS

Cameron White [Captain]

Aiden Blizzard
Aaron Finch
Shane Harwood
John Hastings
Brad Hodge
Jon Holland
David Hussey
Andrew McDonald
Bryce McGain
Clint McKay
James Pattinson
Rob Quiney
Peter Siddle
Matthew Wade

CAPE COBRAS

Andrew Puttick [Captain]

Derek Brand
Ryan Canning
Henry Davids
Jean-Paul Duminy
Sybrand Engelbrecht
Herschelle Gibbs
Claude Henderson
Rory Kleinveldt
Charl Langeveldt
Richard Levi
Vernon Philander
Francois Plaatjies
Monde Zondeki

DIAMOND EAGLES

Boeta Dippenaar [Captain]

Ryan Bailey
Jandre Coetzee
Cornelius de Villiers
Dillon du Preez
Dean Elgar
Reeza Hendricks
Alan Kruger
Adrian McLaren
Ryan McLaren
Victor Mpitsang
Rilee Rossouw
Thandi Tshabalala
Shadley van Schalkwyk
Morne van Wyk

SUSSEX SHARKS

Michael Yardy [Captain]

Will Beer
Ben Brown
Piyush Chawla
Joe Gatting
Rory Hamilton-Brown
Andy Hodd
Ed Joyce
Chad Keegan
James Kirtley
Robin Martin-Jenkins
Chris Nash
Dwayne Smith
Luke Wright
Yasir Arafat

SOMERSET SABRES

Justin Langer [Captain]

Omari Banks
Jos Buttler
Zander de Bruyn
Wes Durston
James Hildreth
Craig Kieswetter
Ben Phillips
Arul Suppiah
Alfonso Thomas
Peter Trego
Marcus Trescothick
Mark Turner
Max Waller
Charl Willoughby

C.Ronaldo

I'm not going to watch any match

but won't miss betting

would get an idea of the teams from here

and would bet on that basis

Safin

Basically the Indian teams are at a disadvantage as they never play together other than in IPL. So it will be tough for them to gel together as a unit.

And i really doubt how many people will anyway turn up to watch "SUSSEX SHARKS" take on "SOMERSET SABRES" in India

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Delhi daredevils hardly looks threatening without ABD Villiers and Vettori and Viru. Hope Sehwag recovers on time. Cape cobras would have been the favorites if they had Greame Simth leading the side. NSW Blues looks strong on paper too, and for me Otago volts are the dark horses.

C.Ronaldo

^ Paul Callingwood would also be not available for Delhi

Safin

Yeah all that is fine but tell me who will go and watch these matches

Its not as if in football where you have a culture of clubs. We don't even associate with local teams here. Now we have even foreign teams coming over. Imo they will do better if they do a football style home and away game system for the trophy. No one will watch foreign clubs playing otherwise.

Its not a surprise gherefore that bcci is giving 'discounts' to students

to promote the sport

Imo the cocept as it exists now is seriously flawed
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