T20 Mag

The second Champions Twenty20 League will take place next year between September 25 and October 11, and will feature 12 teams, four more than the first edition to be held between December 3-10, 2008.

Next year’s league has been scheduled in the same month the ICC proposes to hold its Champions Trophy, which was postponed from September 2009 after five of the eight participating nations said they would not send their teams for the event given security concerns in Pakistan.

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/t20champions/content/story/368437.html

Chennai Super Kings, the IPL team that has qualified for the Champions Twenty20 League in December, is likely to release captain MS Dhoni in the later stages of the tournament to help him prepare for India’s Test series against England, a top franchise official has said.

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/t20champions/content/story/365488.html

The credibility of Test cricket took another blow when the biggest series of the coming winter – the de facto world championship bout between Australia and South Africa – was shifted to make room for a money-spinning Twenty20 tournament.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/australia/
2560636/Twenty20-deals-blow-to-Australia-v-South-Africa-Test-series—Cricket.html

England are fighting an increasingly lonely battle to protect the status of Test cricket against the onward march of Twenty20 after Australia and South Africa bowed yesterday to Indian pressure to reschedule the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League from September to December.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/aug/15/twenty20.englandcricketteam

The Board of Control for Cricket in India, Cricket Australia, and Cricket South Africa today announced the rescheduling of the inaugural edition of the Champions League Twenty20 from September-October to early December.

http://www.thetwenty20cup.co.uk/news/article.asp?NewsID=3246

Paul Millman, the Kent chief executive, is adamant his club will participate in the Champions League later this year. Despite reaching the final of the Twenty20 Cup, Kent have been denied entry to the inaugural competition owing to the inclusion of two players who were part of the unsanctioned Indian Cricket League (ICL).

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/t20champions/content/story/364518.html

The International Cricket Council (ICC) have chosen to delay the decision of whether to officially sanction the proposed Twenty20 Champions League. The ICC have previously backed plans for the tournament but there still needs to be an agreement for when the tournament can be staged.

http://www.inthenews.co.uk/sports/sport/general-sport/
twenty20-champions-league-decision-delayed-$1235290.htm

Central Districts are on the verge of a lucrative invitation to compete in the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League in India. A decision was expected tonight on whether the New Zealand Twenty20 champions would join the leading domestic sides from India, South Africa, Australia and Pakistan at the tournament starting on September 29.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/4/story.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10524324

Broadcaster Sony Entertainment Television (SET), a key contender for the upcoming Champions T20 League, has unofficially begun floating packages for potential advertisers in the market. The rates that are currently being quoted are Rs 3.5-4 lakh for a 10-second spot. Media agencies said that Sony is currently testing the waters and have, therefore, begun informal conversations with key clients and agencies.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Sony_floats_ad-rates_for_Champions_T20_League
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English side Middlesex has been confirmed as one of the eight teams to take part in cricket’s inaugural Twenty20 Champions League, which starts in India next month.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed its Twenty20 champion side would take part in the tournament, which also includes Victoria and Western Australia as Australia’s two representative sides.

http://news.smh.com.au/sport/middlesex-in-twenty20-champions-league-20080802-3owt.html