Champions League Twenty20 2009 Cricket Teams
Champions League T20 2009 Teams
The Twenty20 matches got introduced in England with an aim to get more people attending the matches. These matches were shorter in duration and thus, did not bore the audience as in a test match or a one day match.
The Champions League Twenty20 is a T20 international cricket competition in which clubs from England, Australia, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, West Indies and New Zealand participate. Lalit Modi is the chair person of the league and the first competition got launched in the year 2008.
The Champions League 2009 is scheduled to be held in October 2009 in which 12 teams will be competing with each other. The tournament will start with the round robin format which means that there will be 4 pools with 3 teams in each. The top 2 winning teams from every pool will proceed to the next stages and there will be 19 matches played over a period of 16 days.
The matches of Champions League Twenty 20 are too interesting and everything gets going in a real hurry. These matches are a great entertainment for young people and families, who seldom have time to watch a whole cricket match.
Somerset’s Champions League Twenty20 squad: Somerset squad: Langer (capt), Trescothick, De Bruyn, Hildreth, Kieswetter (wk), Trego, Suppiah, Thomas, Waller, Willoughby, Durston, Turner, Banks, Phillips, Buttler.
South African domestic cricket team, Cape Cobras, arrived in Bangalore on Sunday to take part in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament, which begins on October 8.