T20 Champions League cricket opening ceremony will be kicked-off on 8 October at Bangalore on October 8. Which two teams are going to celebrate the opening, lightning and anticipated evening. Well, none but IPL second season runners-up Bangalore Royal Challengers and South African Cricket club Cape Cobras will take on each other. Twelve teams will play a round league by dividing in four groups. Among them three Indian team of IPL teams are included. Twelve clubs from seven cricket playing counties are ready to meet in the rivalry tournaments. The name and groups are below.
Group A: Deccan Chargers (India), Somerset CCC (England), Trinidad & Tobago (West Indies)
Group B: New South Wales (Australia), Diamond Eagles (South Africa), Sussex Sharks (England)
Group C: Royal Challengers Bangalore (India), Cape Cobras (South Africa), Otago Volts (New Zealand)
Group D: Delhi Daredevils (India), Victoria (Australia), Wayamba (Sri Lanka)
With the match Group-C another most exciting the ceremony will be unfolded just after a few days of champions’ trophy. It is the last event where the players of different countries will be seen at a time. Later this year and in the first quarter of 2010 two important money making games will be take place. One is Twenty20 World Championship and other is IPL T20 season 3. Every year the cricket loving people will get opportunity to enjoy this tournament.
| Date and Time
| Match
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| Thu Oct 8
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| Group C – Royal Challengers Bangalore v Cape Cobras
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
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| Fri Oct 9
16:00 local | 10:30 GMT
| Group B – Diamond Eagles v New South Wales
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
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| Fri Oct 9
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| Group D – Delhi Daredevils v Victoria
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
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| Sat Oct 10
16:00 local | 10:30 GMT
| Group C – Cape Cobras v Otago
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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| Sat Oct 10
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| Group A – Deccan Chargers v Somerset
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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| Sun Oct 11
16:00 local | 10:30 GMT
| Group B – New South Wales v Sussex
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
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| Sun Oct 11
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| Group D – Delhi Daredevils v Wayamba
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
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| Mon Oct 12
16:00 local | 10:30 GMT
| Group A – Somerset v Trinidad & Tobago
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
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| Mon Oct 12
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| Group C – Royal Challengers Bangalore v Otago
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
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| Tue Oct 13
16:00 local | 10:30 GMT
| Group D – Victoria v Wayamba
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
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| Tue Oct 13
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| Group B – Eagles v Sussex
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
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| Wed Oct 14
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| Group A – Deccan Chargers v Trinidad & Tobago
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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| Thu Oct 15
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| League B – TBC v TBC (C1 v D2)
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
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| Fri Oct 16
16:00 local | 10:30 GMT
| League A – TBC v TBC (A2 v B2)
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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| Fri Oct 16
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| League A – TBC v TBC (A1 v B1)
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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| Sat Oct 17
16:00 local | 10:30 GMT
| League B – TBC v TBC (C2 v D2)
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
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| Sat Oct 17
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| League B – TBC v TBC (C1 v D1)
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
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| Sun Oct 18
16:00 local | 10:30 GMT
| League A – TBC v TBC (A2 v B1)
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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| Sun Oct 18
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| League A – TBC v TBC (A1 v B2)
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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| Mon Oct 19
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| League B – TBC v TBC (C2 v D1)
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
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| Wed Oct 21
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| 1st Semi-final – TBC v TBC (Winner B v Runner up A)
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
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| Thu Oct 22
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| 2nd Semi-final – TBC v TBC (Winner A v Runner up B)
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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| Fri Oct 23
20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
| Final – TBC v TBC
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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Here is a list of the TV channels that will show the matches Live in different countries of the world. This is the first time, the tournament’s commentary will telecast in 12 different languages. Beside some familiar voices some new commentators will be debuted them in this jobs this season such as Kumar Sangakkara, Ricky Ponting.
Star Cricket: India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia
Star Sports: India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia
ONE HD: Australia
British Eurosport: United Kingdom
Directv: USA
CBN, ATN Cricket Plus: Canada
Willow Tv: Internet North America
Three international cricket grounds as well as Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi and M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore has been selected as venue.
These are the probable 15 men squads who will take part in Champions League Twenty20 2009.
Delhi Daredevils (India)Virender Sehwag (capt), AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Gautam Gambhir, Dirk Nannes, Dinesh Karthik, Daniel Vettori, Ashish Nehra, Amit Mishra, Paul Collingwood, Owais Shah, Pradeep Sangwan, Aavishkar Salvi, Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (India)Anil Kumble (capt), Rahul Dravid, Robin Uthappa, Jacques Kallis, Ross Taylor, Dale Steyn, Manish Pandey, Praveen Kumar, Jesse Ryder, Roelof van der Merwe, Mark Boucher, Vinay Kumar, Virat Kohli, Akhil Balachandra, Rajesh Bishoni.
Deccan Chargers (India)Adam Gilchrist (capt), VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Fidel Edwards, Scott Styris, Chaminda Vaas, RP Singh, Ryan Harris, Pragyan Ojha, Y Venugopal Rao, T Suman, Azhar Bilakhia, Harmeet Singh, SM Shoaib.
Cape Cobras (South Africa) Graeme Smith (capt), Herschelle Gibbs, JP Duminy, Justin Ontong, Charl Langeveldt, Claude Henderson, Monde Zondeki, Vernon Philander, Henry Davids, Ryan Canning, Rory Kleinveldt, Richard Levi, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Derek Brand, Francois Plaatjies.
New South Wales (Australia): Simon Katich (capt), Phillip Hughes, Brett Lee, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Moises Henriques, Nathan Hauritz, Doug Bollinger, Aaron Bird, Stephen O’Keefe, Ben Rohrer, Steve Smith, Daniel Smith, Dominic Thornely, David Warner.
Trinidad & Tobago (West Indies): Daren Ganga (capt), Sherwin Ganga, Dwayne Bravo, Darren Bravo, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Lendl Simmons, Dave Mohammed, Kieron Pollard, William Perkins, Samuel Badree, Rayad Emrit, Navin Stewart, Sunil Narine, Adrian Barath.
Otago (New Zealand): Craig Cumming (capt), Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Aaron Redmond, Neil Broom, Ian Butler, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Greg Todd, Hamish Rutherford, Derek deBoorder, Nick Baird, Warren McSkimming, Neil Wagner, Matt Harvie, James McMillan.
Wayamba (Sri Langka): Jehan Mubarak (capt), Mahela Jayawardene, Ajantha Mendis, Rangana Herath, Farveez Maharoof, Kaushal Lokuarachchi, Jeevantha Kulathunga, Mahela Udawatte, Thisara Perera, Sameera Soysa, Shalika Karunanayake, Isuru Udana, Ishara Amerasinghe, Chanaka Welegedara, Michael Vandort.
Sussex (England): Michael Yardy (capt), Dwayne Smith, Luke Wright, James Kirtley, Piyush Chawla, Ed Joyce, Joe Gatting, Robin Martin-Jenkins, William Beer, Andrew Hodd, Christopher Nash, Ben Brown, Rory Hamilton-Brown, Yasir Arafat, Chad Keegan.
Diamond Eagles (England): Boeta Dippenaar (capt), Dillon du Preez, Morne van Wyk, Mthandeki Tshabalala, Adrian McLaren, Ryan McLaren, Victor Mpitsang, Ryan Bailey, Jandre Coetzee, Cornelis de Villiers, Dean Elgar, Reeza Hendricks, Alan Kruger, Rilee Rossouw, Shadley van Schalkwyk.
Victoria (Australia): Cameron White (capt), Brad Hodge, Peter Siddle, David Hussey, Andrew McDonald, Jon Holland, Clint McKay, Rob Quiney, Matthew Wade, Aiden Blizzard, Aaron Finch, Shane Harwood, John Hastings, Damien Wright, Bryce McGain.
Somerset (Australia): Justin Langer (capt), Marcus Trescothick, Zander de Bruyn, Omari Banks, James Hildreth, Craig Kieswetter, Pete Trego, Arul Suppiah, Alfonso Thomas, Max Waller, Charl Willoughby, Wes Durston, Mark Turner, Jos Buttler, Ben Phillips.
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