Second edition to be held in Sept 2009
Posted on Sep 08, 2008 at 11:58 | Updated Sep 08, 2008 at 16:02
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Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Monday announced the dates of the second edition of the Champions League Twenty20 from September 25 to October 11, 2009.
The three founding member boards had already announced the dates for the inaugural edition of the 2008 Champions League Twenty20 from December three to 10.
The 2009 edition of the Champions League Twenty20 will feature 12 teams and will see 23 matches played. It is scheduled during the prime Indian festive season, according to a press release.
Venues and commercial partnership details of the inaugural edition of the Champions League Twenty20 will be finalised soon.
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, Middlesex, 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, the release adds.
At the same time it would 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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