The organisers of the postponed Champions Twenty20 League will meet on December 8 to see if they can reschedule the tournament early next year, according to the spokesman of the US $6 million tournament.
Via ExpressCricket
A spokesperson for Cricket Australia, the founding members of the league along with the BCCI and Cricket South Africa, said it would be tough to include the tournament in the already-cramped schedule for 2009.
Via Cricinfo
The inaugural Champions League Twenty20, which was scheduled to begin in Mumbai on December 3, has been postponed in the wake of Wednesday's terrorist strikes in the city. The tournament is likely to be held in India early next year, Lalit Modi told Cricinfo.
Via Cricinfo
Australian captain Ricky Ponting has expressed concerns at the terror attacks in Mumbai, which has left over 90 people dead and over a 120 people injured, and has called for the Champions League Twenty20 competition to be moved out of India.
Via CricketNirvana
The terror attacks at Mumbai last night have put a question mark over the Twenty20 Champions League with Middlesex delaying their flight to the country and Cricket Australia suspending all travel to India even as tournament organisers shifted three matches from Mumbai to Bangalore.
Via PTI
Australian and English cricket clubs postponed leaving for India for next week's Champions Twenty20 League because of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Terrorists killed at least 78 people, wounded at least 200 and took Westerners hostage in attacks on Thursday across Mumbai, where the tournament was to start. One of the luxury hotels in flames, the Taj Mahal, was where English side Middlesex planned to stay.
Via IHT
Shane Warne is considering whether it is safe to continue his journey to India after the Mumbai terrorist attacks moved Cricket Australia to suspend all travel to the country.
Via SMH
A series of terrorist strikes in Mumbai on Wednesday night which left 80 dead and 250 injured has put a major question mark over the fate of the Champions Twenty20 League, scheduled to begin in the city next week, and cast a serious doubt over the second Test between India and England next month.
Via CricInfo
Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) (TSX-SAT), Canada's pioneer South Asian Broadcaster and Canada's largest Distributor of World Class Cricket, announced today that it has secured the exclusive Canadian broadcast rights for the Champions League Twenty20 Tournaments cricket series for the next three years. The 2008 series will be shown live and rebroadcast on ATN's CBN and ATN-Cricket Plus in Canada.
Via CNW
Anthem duration: 1 min
Anthem duration: 30 secs
Somehow feel it is not upto ARR class. What say?
Good news for Rambal warriors as LUKE Ronchi smashed his highest score of the season to lift Western Australia to a competitive 6-263 against Victoria in their Ford Ranger Cup clash at the WACA Ground.
Via FoxSports
Shoaib Malik says that his team will play its first two games of the tournament in Bangalore, which he believed is a good omen. “We have trained very hard for the Champions League and hopefully the team will do well in India.”
Via ThaiIndian
Will Bangalore be LUCKY for Stallions?
Rambal Warriors might be without Michael Hussey in the Champions League, but team owner feels his absence would not hamper their chances in the showbiz Twenty20 tournament.
Via MSN
Squad
Shoaib Malik (Captain),Abdul Rehman, Adeel Malik, Ali Khan, Bilal Hussain, Faisal Naveed, Kashif Raza, Kamran Younas, Mansoor Amjad, Muhammad Ayub Muhammad Ali, N. Qazi, Qaisar Abbas,Sarfraz Ahmad, Shakeel Ansar.
Via ThaiIndian
Chennai Super Kings, the Indian Premier League side which qualified for next month's Champions League Twenty20, today became the first team in the cricketing world to have its 'Fan club'.
Via ChennaiOnline
I thought Rajasthan Royals were the first to have fanclub...
The Indian media and entertainment industry is in turmoil amid reports that the ESPN Software India, has been hit hard by the global financial crisis and that the sponsorship for Champions League T20 tournament has no takers.
Via TelevisionPoint
Matthew Hayden has been cleared by Cricket Australia to play for Chennai Super Kings in next month's Champions League Twenty20 starting December 3, according to coach Tim Nielsen.
Via Rediff
All set to begin a new innings as a commentator, maverick South African batsman Herschelle Gibbs said barring miracles, either Rajasthan Royals or Chennai Super Kings would clinch next month's Champions League Twenty20.
Via PTI
The Indian Premier League franchisee Chennai Super Kings launched their "Kings Club" here as part of their brand-building exercise to attract committed loyalty from the team's supporters.
Via Hindu
Middlesex skipper Shaun Udal is comfortable with his side being the underdogs, and he says they can spring another shock as they head out for the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League.
Via SkySports
ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) announced today its broadcast rights partnership with Arab Digital Distribution (ADD), the largest pay TV platform management company in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the year's most anticipated cricket event - Champions League Twenty 20. The multi-platform distribution deal covers medium of television, internet and mobile thus promising to extend the popularity and reach of this new and exciting tournament.
Via Zawya
Rakesh Singh, vice-president, marketing, India Cements says
We have already tied up with five leading brands - Peter England, Reebok, Aircel, Café Coffee Day and Camlin, and are in talks with at least three others including a multi national bank for launching a cobranded credit card and a greetings cards chain for bringing out a range of products including cards, soft toys and calendars
Muttiah Muralitharan will make it to the Champions League T20. After all the recent exchanges between the Indian Board and Cricket Sri Lanka officials, there were doubts over the availability of the ace spinner for the football style league tournament.
Via DNA
Murali Kartik doesn’t like the hype surrounding his playing for Middlesex in the upcoming Champions League T20. The left-arm spinner, who still nurses hopes of playing for India, believes that a professional player must give his best for any team that he represents and not be bothered by talks of ‘country versus club’ conflict.
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Squad
Shaun Udal (Captain), Gareth Berg, Steven Finn, Billy Godleman, Tyron Henderson, Ed Joyce, Murali Kartik, Dawid Malan, Eoin Morgan, Tim Murtagh, David Nash, Alan Richardson, Ben Scott, Owais Shah, Andrew Strauss
Middlesex have named Strauss and Shah in the squad.
Titans spinner Paul Harris will miss December's Champions League Twenty20 after fracturing his left thumb.
Via ESPNSTAR
Top ICC Elite Panel umpires Simon Taufel of Australia and New Zealand's Gary Baxter will officiate in the final of the Champions League Twenty20 to be played at Chennai's M Chidambaram Stadium on December 10.
Via The Hindu
Batsman Ed Joyce is determined to sign off his Middlesex career on a high by winning the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 in India next month.
Via PressAssociation
Western Australia coach Tom Moody on Friday joined the chorus against the boxed-in, frenetic scheduling of the much-anticipated inaugural Champions League, saying he was apprehensive about his team shifting gears from the four-day format to Twenty20 in such haste.
Via TOI
ESPN Star Sports (ESS), which bought broadcast and ground rights of the series from Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for $975 million, is now facing problems in getting sponsors for the ground rights and has been forced to slash advertising rates, as per media and advertising sources.
Via ET
The Middlesex team are funding out of their own pockets for two extra days of training and time to acclimatise to alien conditions on the sub-continent. They fly to Mumbai next Thursday, two days before the Champions League organisers are willing to pick up the tab for their hotel bills and expenses.
Via Telegraph
TEN Network has secured the Australian rights to screen next month's lucrative Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India, as part of an assault on the Nine Network's dominance of cricket.
Via The Australian
The “Mozart from Madras”, for the first time ever in his musical career, has composed an anthem for the cricket tournament eagerly awaited, the Champions League Twenty 20.
Via ZeeNews
Middlesex plan to name star Twenty20 batsman Owais Shah in their squad for their Champions League adventure in India.
Via Mirror
Wasim Akram has no doubt that the upcoming CL T20 will be a bigger success than the inaugural edition of the IPL.
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Marcus North, skipper of Western Australia Warriors is certain that the Champions League Twenty20 will be a big hit.
Via ESPNSTAR
The Twenty20 Champions League have commissioned world renowned French jeweller and luxury brand - Cartier, to sculpt Winners Trophy to be presented after final on December 10 in Mumbai.
Via ExpressCricket
The Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings first job will be to reach the semi-finals of the Twenty 20 Champions League, said the squad's director cricket operations, VB Chandrasekar.
Via TOI
Indian board chief Lalit Modi has assured England that their first Test against India will not be moved to accommodate the Champions League final.
Via BBC
ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), Asia’s leading Sports Broadcaster, has been appointed the preferred bidder as the long-term global television production partner for the Champions League 2020 tournament by Champions League 2020.
Via BusinessWire
ESS will telecast the tournament in High Definition (HD) format, making it the first HD telecast for any sporting event in the Indian subcontinent.
Via IndianTelevision
Need to see how Indian crowds react to Hayden who is a part of Chennai Super Kings squad in the Champions League Twenty20. Hayden had termed India as a "third world" nation. Will Haydos apologize for his comments?
Read more...ESPNSTAR channel will use of as many as 34 cameras at each venue to cover all the matches -- the highest number of cameras used to cover any multi venue cricket tournament to date.
It will include angles like aerial views with Fly cameras, a boundary side field camera to showcase fielding and a new mid-wicket camera position to highlight running between the wickets that will deliver another new viewing dimension to viewers.
Via PTI
The Chennai Super Kings have not named injured New Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram in their squad for next month's Champions League Twenty20 tournament.
Via Cricket365
ENGLAND’S First Test against India has been put back 24 hours. It has been rescheduled for December 12 so that home skipper Mahendra Dhoni can compete in the new Champions League.
Via TheSun
Squad
M.S. Dhoni (captain), M. Hayden, M. Hussey, S. Raina, A. Morkel, S. Badrinath, C. Kapugedara, K.B. Arun Karthik, P. Patel, R. Ashwin, M. Muralitharan, M. Ntini, L. Balaji, M. Gony, S. Tyagi.
Coach: S. Fleming.
CSK is going with all international players, all guns blazing to be the Champion of Champions
Source: The HindU
The Indian cricket board wants the first Test against England at Ahmedabad put off by a day to allow Mahendra Singh Dhoni play in the Champions T20 League final two days prior to it in case his team Chennai Super Kings make it to the title-contest.
Via PTI
Squad
Ahmed Amla (Captain), Imraan Khan, Hashim Amla, Jon Kent, Grant Rowley, Martin Bekker, Pierre de Bruyn, Daryn Smit, Johann Louw, Morne van Vuuren, Quinton Friend, Alfonso Thomas, Saidi Mlongo, Yusuf Abdullah and David Miller.
The team leaves for India on Sat 29 November, and their first round robin encounter will be against the Rajashan Royals on Wed 3 December.
Via Dolphins Cricket
Albie Morkel will represent his IPL franchise, the Chennai Super Kings, in the Champions League instead of his South African domestic side the Titans.
Via Cricinfo
Sialkot Stallions
Shoaib Malik (Captain),Abdul Rehman, Adeel Malik, Ali Khan, Bilal Hussain, Faisal Naveed, Kashif Raza, Kamran Younas, Mansoor Amjad, Muhammad Ayub Muhammad Ali, N. Qazi, Qaisar Abbas,Sarfraz Ahmad, Shakeel Ansar.
Middlesex Crusaders
Shaun Udal (Captain), Gareth Berg, Steven Finn, Billy Godleman, Tyron Henderson, Ed Joyce, Murali Kartik, Dawid Malan, Eoin Morgan, Tim Murtagh, David Nash, Alan Richardson, Ben Scott, Owais Shah, Andrew Strauss
Pretoria Titans
Pierre Joubert (captain), Farhaan Behardien, Gulam Bodi, AB de Villiers, Francois du Plessis, Paul Harris, Heino Kuhn (wk), Ethy Mbhalati, Morne Morkel, Aaron Phangiso, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Roelof van der Merwe, Martin van Jaarsveld, Basheeru-Deen Walters (wk)
Chennai Super Kings
M.S. Dhoni (captain), M. Hayden, M. Hussey, S. Raina, A. Morkel, S. Badrinath, C. Kapugedara, K.B. Arun Karthik, P. Patel, R. Ashwin, M. Muralitharan, M. Ntini, L. Balaji, M. Gony, S. Tyagi. Coach: S. Fleming.
Nashua Dolphins
Ahmed Amla (Captain), Imraan Khan, Hashim Amla, Jon Kent, Grant Rowley, Martin Bekker, Pierre de Bruyn, Daryn Smit, Johann Louw, Morne van Vuuren, Quinton Friend, Alfonso Thomas, Saidi Mlongo, Yusuf Abdullah and David Miller.
Victorian Bushrangers
Cameron White (captain), Aiden Blizzard, Adam Crosthwaite, Aaron Finch, Shane Harwood, John Hastings, Brad Hodge, David Hussey, Andrew McDonald, Clinton McKay, Dirk Nannes, Darren Pattinson, Robert Quiney, Peter Siddle, Matthew Wade.
Western Australian Rambal Warriors
Marcus North (capt.), David Bandy, Arron Crawford, Liam Davis, Brett Dorey, Theo Doropoulos, Ben Edmondson, Aaron Heal, Matt Johnston, Trent Kelly, Steve Magoffin, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Luke Ronchi, Adam Voges.
Check the promo video of Champions League T20 from Youtube. Hindi Version of the promo. Seems too TRANSFORMERISH! Your thoughts?
New Zealand umpire Gary Baxter will stand in six games during the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India during December.
Via 3News
Happen to stumble upon 'Betting Choice' website which has put some tips for betting for the upcoming inaugural Champions league T20. The recommendations are
1. Back Rajasthan Royals to win
2. Back Shaun Marsh to score the most runs if he plays
3. Back Dolphins Yusuf Abdullah for best bowling strike rate
Interesting!
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ESPN Starsports who has bagged the Televison rights for the Champions League T20 has put up videos of Champions league T20 promos. Check it out...
View CLT20 revolution
View CLT20 Logomation
View Champions League
Amidst the ongoing bearish sentiments, ESPN Star Sports (ESS), which paid a steep $975 million for acquiring the upcoming T20 Champions League cricket tournament for 10 years, is targeting revenues of about Rs 200 crore from ground rights and on-air ad sales though media buyers say the target is ambitious in the current scenario. ESS is spending Rs 50 crore on pre-event marketing and plans to tie up with 250 cinema theatres for cross-marketing the event and Bollywood production houses for in-film tie-ups.
Via ET
Fleming, who won't be taking part in the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League for IPL runners-up Chennai Super Kings, hopes he can become a player-coach at the second edition of the IPL.
Via TOI
Cricket-led advertising on sports channels will take a hit as advertisers are planning to pull back Rs 300-350 crore, or about 20-24 per cent of their budget for sports, in 2008-09. This is likely to hit the forthcoming India-England one-day series, to be telecast on Neo Cricket, and Champions League, which will be telecast on ESPN & Star Sports, sources say.
Via BS
Found this video on YouTube
HARD-hitting Geelong batsman Aaron Finch has taken the first steps toward a potential international cricket career after being selected to represent Victoria in the Twenty20 Champions League in India.
Via Geelong
Victoria are confident they can take their peerless Twenty20 cricket form to the world stage when they compete in the inaugural Champions League in India next month. The Bushrangers have won all three Australian domestic Twenty20 titles and have won 12 of their 13 matches played, including last summer's final against Western Australia in Perth.
Via TheAge
The Victorian Bushrangers have announced the squad of 15 that will vie for the title in the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 tournament that gets underway in India next month.
Victorian Bushrangers Champions League Twenty20 squad:
Cameron White (captain), Aiden Blizzard, Adam Crosthwaite, Aaron Finch, Shane Harwood, John Hastings, Brad Hodge, David Hussey, Andrew McDonald, Clinton McKay, Dirk Nannes, Darren Pattinson, Robert Quiney, Peter Siddle, Matthew Wade.
Via SportsAustralia
Gibbs was omitted yesterday from the South African one-day side for breaking curfew. It’s not just Gibbs’s cricketing career that is in jeopardy, but also his debut as a member of TV channel ESPN’s commentary team. According to his father, Herman, Gibbs is contracted to commentate for ESPN next month during the Champions League cricket tournament in India.
Via TheWitness
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) is planning an extensive marketing campaign to create awareness. Targeting the family, the campaign will kick off later this week and cover print, television, radio, online and outdoors.
Via IndianTelevison
Vinny Codrington, Middlesex's chief executive, has said the county does "feel penalised" by rules that would prevent their leading players from taking part in the Champions Twenty20 League in India in December.
Via Cricinfo
Keppler Wessels, who took the Chennai Super Kings to the final of the Indian Premier League earlier this year, said he had opted not to renew his one-year contract.
Via HeraldOnline
England have refused Owais Shah and Andrew Strauss permission to break off from the England tour to play for their county next month. Middlesex's reserves have been further weakened by the organisers deciding they can only field players who were on the club's books when they qualified for the Champions League by winning the Twenty20 Cup in July.
Via Telegraph
Rambal Warriors coach Tom Moody feels the experience of playing in India will help his players in the Twenty20 Champions League, starting Dec 3.
Via SindhToday
Middlesex will renew their appeal to the England and Wales Cricket Board to release Owais Shah and Andrew Strauss for their Champions League challenge in India next month after receiving shock confirmation yesterday that they could be without as many as five of their first-choice side.
Via Guardian
In a surprising move, the Chennai IPL team has sacked Kepler Wessels as its coach and named former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming in his place.
Via HT
Chennai Super Kings management is in no mood to let go of their prize catches recruited during the auction. After making sure Mike Hussey plays for Chennai, they have made sure that Albie Morkel, the all-rounder from South Africa will also play for chennai.
Via HT
WESTERN Australia has lost local hero Michael Hussey to an Indian side for December's Twenty20 clash, but is not complaining as it will receive $US200,000 ($298,000) compensation for the inconvenience and possibly stands to win $US3m.
Via TheAustralian
Australian batsman Mike Hussey is uneasy about being forced to choose between state and club after confirming he will turn out for the Chennai Super Kings rather than Western Australia in next month's inaugural Twenty20 Champions League.
Via WAToday
Former Ireland cricketer Ed Joyce will leave Middlesex to join Sussex next season as he looks to revive his international career with England.The Bray native has agreed to stay at Middlesex until the end of the Champions League in India in December.
Via Irish Times
WA, to be based in Bangalore, will play pool matches against Pakistan domestic champions Sialkot, who have won their past 18 Twenty20 matches, Natal Dolphins and Shane Warne’s Rajasthan Royals.
WA squad: Marcus North (capt.), David Bandy, Arron Crawford, Liam Davis, Brett Dorey, Theo Doropoulos, Ben Edmondson, Aaron Heal, Matt Johnston, Trent Kelly, Steve Magoffin, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Luke Ronchi, Adam Voges.
Via thewest
Michael Hussey has opted to play for Chennai Super Kings in the upcoming Champions League T20 to be held in India. WA batsman Liam Davis was named as his replacement in the WA squad that will try to conquer the 5 million dollar bounty in India.
Via TheWest
Middlesex chairman, Ian Lovett says "It has been excellent preparation for participation in the Champions League and I am sure that all our players will be doing their utmost in next summer's domestic T20 to ensure qualification for the next Stanford Super Series in 2009."
Via Cricket365
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