Twenty20 Champions League: Pakistani Team Sialkot Stallions
September 3, 2008
Sialkot stallions is Pakistani team which is representing Pakistan in Twenty20 Champions League which is about to held in December 2008.
Sialkot stallion’s home ground is Jinnah stadium sialkot and they are lead by Current Pakistani National Team captain Shoaib Malik and Opener Youngs Hitter Imran Nazir in recent Twenty20 domastic Championships.
Twenty20 Chanpions League: T20 Champions League Teams Review
September 2, 2008
T20CL.com write a great review of Champions league teams:
RAJASTHAN ROYALS
The Royals lost just three of their 14 games on the way to winning the inaugural Indian Premier League crown. Coach Shane Warne could end up leading them against his home state Victoria in the Champions League.
Star player: Yusuf Pathan - Contributed with both bat and ball in Rajasthan’s triumph, hitting four half-centuries and claiming eight wickets, and taking the man-of-the-match award in the final.
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
The Super Kings needed fewer than 15 overs to brush aside the Delhi Daredevils in the semi-finals before losing the IPL final on the final ball.
Star player: Mahendra Singh Dhoni - The IPL’s most expensive player averaged over 40 with the bat and took six catches behind the stumps as his team made it to the final.
VICTORIA BUSHRANGERS
The Bushrangers have dominated Twenty20 cricket in Australia winning all three of the domestic tournaments to have been held. During that time they have lost just once, against Western Australia last season, however they earned revenge for that defeat in the final when they defeated the Warriors by 32 runs.
Star player: Brad Hodge - The 33-year-old right-hander is the highest run scorer in the short history of Twenty20 cricket Down Under having scored 476 runs for Victoria.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA WARRIORS
The vast array of batting talent in the Western Australian team endears them to the batsman-friendly version of the game with Shaun Marsh and Luke Pomersbach finishing inside the top-three run scorers in last season’s Twenty20 competition.
Star player: Shaun Marsh - The left-hander has topped the runscorers’ list in both the Australian Twenty20 competition and the Indian Premier League in the past six months.
TITANS
The Pretoria-based side claimed the Pro-20 Series title and the MTN Championship - the premier domestic one-day cricket competition of South Africa - in 2008.
Star player: Dale Steyn - The South Africa paceman had a breakthrough year on the Test scene and has also impressed at the shorter form of the game, recording career-best figures of four for nine in Twenty20 cricket.
DOLPHINS
The Dolphins finished second in the Pro-20 Series after winning four of their six matches. The Natal-based team lost by 18 runs in the final against the Titans in April, failing to chase down a victoty target of 153 for six.
SialKot and Middlesexx are missing which will be updated soon.
Source: T20CL
T20 Champions League: Indian champions League in December
September 2, 2008
According to Cricket.com.au, T20 Champions lEague has been rescheduled to DEcember. Here is the full news:
The three founding member boards reiterated that this was a goodwill response to a request from the International Cricket Council (ICC) to consider new playing dates for 2008.
The first Champions League Twenty20 will now be contested from 3 – 10 December inclusive, the three cricket boards said in a joint statement today.
Venues and commercial partnership details will be finalised in the coming weeks now that the new dates have been set.
Eight teams, consisting of the reigning winners and runners-up from the domestic Twenty20 competitions in India, Australia and South Africa, plus the reigning Twenty20 champion Sialkot from Pakistan and the reigning Twenty20 Cup champion from England, Middlesex, have been invited to contest the 2008 Champions League Twenty20.
The inaugural contest was announced on 30 July this year, offering teams US$6 million of prize money, the biggest prize money in world cricket for cricket at a domestic competition level.
The prize money, including US$3 million for the winning team, will be shared between the teams and their players. The Governing Council of the event together with its founding cricket boards believe the significant prize money to be shared between teams and players will ensure that the benefits of the event will foster cricket’s development by injecting new funding into domestic-level cricket and at the same time will handsomely reward domestic-level cricketers and provide a unique opportunity for a higher public profile for players at the level below international cricket.
The 2008 date change for the event was agreed to by the event’s Governing Council after receiving an ICC request to consider alternative dates in 2008 in order to offer a clearer window after the ICC Champions Trophy, which is currently scheduled for September 2008.
“While the Champions League Twenty20 is a domestic tournament not affected by ICC Event rules, we have agreed to the ICC request as a gesture of goodwill,” the joint Champions League Twenty20 statement said.
Lalit Modi, Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and Vice President BCCI said: “We are happy that we were able to find a window during the first week of December for the inaugural edition of the Champions League Twenty20. There was a gap in between the One-Day Internationals and Tests against the touring England squad and that will enable both the Rajasthan Royals and the Chennai Super Kings to regroup and focus on the inaugural edition of the Champions League Twenty20.”
To facilitate the change in Australia, Cricket Australia, Cricket South Africa and the West Australian Cricket Association, as the venue operator, have also agreed to reschedule the 3 mobile Australia-South Africa Test due to be played at the WACA ground in Perth, Western Australia to start on 17 December 2008 instead of 12 December.
This creates a window between the 3 mobile Australia-New Zealand Test at Adelaide, due to start on 28 November, and the new dates for the 3 mobile Perth Test, which will allow Australian and South African players to participate in the Champions League Twenty20.
CA Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland and CSA CEO Gerald Majola said they had consulted players and player associations, the WACA and other stakeholders to assess the feasibility and impact of making the Test match playing date changes.
“We were pleased with the WACA reaction that the new playing dates offer local fans, including corporate groups wanting to entertain at the cricket, good dates for pre-Christmas Test match enjoyment, and we also took feedback from players that the changes could be accommodated without compromising what will be a defacto World Test Cricket Championship bout between Australian and South Africa during December and January,” they said.
“The changes can be made without compromising cricket’s premium format and allow the significant benefits which the new Champions League Twenty20 will offer grassroots cricket to be delivered”.