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Teams of Champions League T20 2009 + Players Names |
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Watch All the Live Action and Video Highlights from the Champions League T20 consisting of 8 Winners of the T20 Tournament across the World to battle out with each other in the Champions League T20 Only on the ESPN Star. Dubai, Earlier the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa received 3 bids for the ten-year broadcast rights of the Champions League Twenty20. It has just been announced that the tender has been awarded to ESPN Star at a total cost of $900 million.
![]() Eight teams, consisting of the reigning winners and runners-up from the domestic Twenty20 competitions in India, Australia and South Africa, plus the winners of 2008 Twenty20 championships (to be held in October 2008) from Pakistan, and the reigning Twenty20 Cup champion from England, Middle***, have been invited to contest the 2008 Champions League Twenty20. The inaugural contest was announced on 30th 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 by 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. |
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![]() ![]() Standard Bank Pro20 champions of the current season, Cape Cobras, are one of the two teams representing South Africa in Airtel Champions League Twenty20. The team is known to have produced a number of quality cricketers for the national side. Players like Herschelle Gibbs and JP Duminy make up the Cobras’ ranks. ![]() ![]()
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The reigning title-holders of the second edition of the IPL, Deccan Chargers will start as one of the favourites in the inaugural season of Airtel Champions League T20. Plagued by poor performances and controversies, the team was placed at the bottom of the table at the end of IPL’s first season.
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Diamond Eagles have been the most successful cricket team in South Africa since the inception of the franchise system for all domestic competitions. It is the other team apart from Cape Cobras to represent South Africa in the Champions League.
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Delhi Daredevils have a number of genuine match-winners in their squad. They boast of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir at the top of the order while wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik beefs up the middle-order. Tillakaratne Dilshan has been a revelation in this format.
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The New South Wales cricket team, or the Speed Blitz Blues, is one of the most high profile teams in the Airtel Champions League Twenty20 contest consisting of eight centrally contracted players by Cricket Australia. Based in Sydney, the team competes in the first-class competition, the Sheffield Shield, the Ford Ranger Cup (limited-overs cricket) and the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash.
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![]() Otago Volts are a New Zealand side that have been based at the University Oval for the last five seasons before which they played at Carisbrook. Glenn Turner, Mark Richardson and Ken Rutherford, at various times in the last thirty years, have played their part for Otago. But the big names did not yield many trophies. ![]() ![]()
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Royal Challengers Bangalore, like Deccan Chargers, had ended up at the bottom of the table in the inaugural edition of DLF IPL. Both met in the final of IPL 2009 in South Africa. Anil Kumble led RCB with great heart, but was unable to win the title.
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Continuing in their glorious tradition, Somerset County Cricket Club have managed to break new ground over the last few years. Long after the likes of Sir Viv Richards, Sir Ian Botham and Joel Garner have finished their careers, the club is still home to some big successes.
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The Sus*** County Cricket Club is probably the one with the strongest connection with the sub-continent. From the regal Ranjitsinghji and Nawab of Pataudi to Pakistan's most charismatic captain, Imran Khan, the county boasts of a rich lineage.
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Trinidad and Tobago is the only domestic team representing the Caribbean in the Champions League. The team’s claim to fame is local boy, and one of the finest batsmen of all time, Brian Charles Lara. The current stars of the team are the talented Bravo brothers, Darren and Dwayne, who have been making waves with their performances.
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Judged purely on form, Victorian Bushrangers are one of the top contenders to win the CLT20 2009. The Bushrangers are an Australian team based in Melbourne and represent the state of Victoria. They were winners of the first three editions of the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash that took place in 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08.
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Sri Lanka’s first class cricket team - Wayamba - represents North Western Province and draws cricketers from the Sri Lanka Premier trophy. They won the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament, 2009, defeating Basnahira South to qualify for the T20 extravaganza - the Champions League. Former Sri Lanka captain, Mahela Jayawardene, is their guiding light.
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