Brett Lee starred with bat and ball before Stuart Clark applied the finishing touches as New South Wales were crowned the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 winners courtesy of a 41-run win over Trinidad & Tobago in Hyderabad. Lee rescued his side with an innings of 48 in 31 balls that included five sixes and their [...]
The Delhi Daredevils concluded their Champions League campaign with a 30-run win over the Cape Cobras in a low-scoring encounter at the Feroz Shah Kotla. Owais Shah top scored wiith 39 not out as the Daredevils scored 114 for six before they bowled out the Cobras for just 84, Dirk Nannes taking three for 19. [...]
Trinidad & Tobago, New South Wales, Victoria and the Cape Cobras have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League after the West Indian champions saw off a fine effort from the Diamond Eagles, who went down by 24 runs in Hyderabad. Brilliant batting from both sides saw Trinidad & Tobago make 213 for four from [...]
New South Wales effectively qualified for the Champions League semi-finals by thrashing Somerset by six wickets in their final League A game in Hyderabad. Somerset struggled to cope against New South Wales’ bowling attack, making 111 for seven, a total the Australian champions got past in the 12th over, giving their net run-rate a huge [...]
Ross Taylor’s half-century set up an eight-wicket win for the Royal Challengers Bangalore over IPL rivals Delhi Daredevils that effectively put both teams out of the Champions League. Taylor smashed 65 in 38 balls as the Challengers closed on 139 for two in reply to the Daredevils’ score of 138 for six and the Daredevils’ [...]
The Cape Cobras maintained their unbeaten run in the Champions League with an eight-wicket win over Victoria in the Super Eights at Bangalore. Monde Zondeki picked up two wickets as the Victorian side were limited to 125 for five and Henry Davids struck an unbeaten 69 to guide his side home with an over to [...]
Some stunning late hitting from Kieron Pollard protected Trinidad & Tobago’s unbeaten run in the Champions League, his unbeaten 54 in 18 balls condemning New South Wales to a surprise four-wicket defeat in Hyderabad. It was a surprise because after half-centuries from Phillip Hughes and David Warner enabled them to post 170 for four, New [...]
Cornelius de Villiers and Morné van Wyk inspired the Diamond Eagles to a five-wicket win over Somerset that kept them in contention for a semi-final berth. De Villiers, the Eagles’ hero when they beat Sussex in a bowl-out in the first group stage, starred again by taking four for 17 as Somerset were held to [...]
Victoria returned to winning ways as they opened the Champions League Super Eight stage with a convincing seven-wicket win over the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Andrew McDonald picked up four for 21 as the home side were limited to 127 for six before David Hussey smashed 31 not out in 15 balls to blast his side [...]
Somerset batsman Marcus Trescothick is to return home from India after suffering a recurrence of a stress-related illness during his side’s Champions League Twenty20 campaign. The club confirmed that the left-hander would be playing no further part in Somerset’s tournament, which has seen them get through the initial group stage into the Super Eights. “Somerset [...]
The Deccan Chargers have been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during their three-run loss to Trinidad & Tobago which put them out of the Champions League. Match referee Srinivas Venkataraghavan ruled that they were one over short of their target when time allowances were taken into consideration and fined each player $US 750 with [...]
The Victoria Bushrangers beat the Delhi Daredevils by seven wickets in a low-scoring Champions League encounter in Delhi which leaves the Indian Premier League sides still searching for a first win. The Daredevils could only post 98 for eight, a total which Victoria surpassed with three wickets down and 20 balls to spare. Delhi’s batsmen [...]
A star-studded New South Wales Blues team brought the Gestetner Diamond Eagles down to earth with an emphatic 53-run win as the Champions League Twenty20 moved on to Delhi. Captain Simon Katich top scored with 53 before the Blues defended their score of 144 for six by restricting the Eagles to a meagre 91 for [...]
An unbeaten ninety nine from JP Duminy provided the sort of start that the Champions League organisers must have dreamt about as he guided his Cape Cobras side past the Royal Challengers Bangalore in a high-scoring tournament opener in Bangalore. Duminy was unbeaten on 99 when the winning runs were scored, Rory Kleinveldt hitting the [...]
New South Wales 144/6 (20/20 ov) Eagles 91/9 (20.0/20 ov) New South Wales won by 53 runs Champions League Twenty20 – 2nd Match, Group B Twenty20 match | 2009/10 season Played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi (neutral venue) 9 October 2009 (20-over match) New South Wales innings (20 overs maximum) R B 4s 6s SR [...]
South African captain Graeme Smith will not be leading the Cape Cobras when they play in the Champions League Twenty20 in India. Although Smith has recovered from elbow surgery, Cricket South Africa have decided that in order for Smith to get through the Proteas’ home season he will need a period of rest after the [...]
Recuperating from a shoulder surgery that ruled him out of the ongoing tri-series in Sri Lanka and the subsequent Champions Trophy, Virender Sehwag will lead Delhi Daredevils in next month’s Champions League, the organisers of the Twenty20 event announced on Tuesday. Sehwag had undergone the surgery in England during the Twenty20 World Cup and remains [...]
The ICC won’t make a slot available in its schedule for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament. Champions League organizer Lalit Modi had said the event, featuring domestic teams from seven nations, would be an annual fixture on the international schedule. But ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat contradicted those claims on Tuesday. “We don’t keep windows [...]
Now that the IPL is over and the action would gradually shift to Champions League, franchisees will be seen engaged in a keen players transfer game. New South Wales, one of the Australian participants, may lose David Warner, who is likely to stick to Delhi Daredevils in the 12-team tournament to be held in India [...]
The first edition of the Champions League Twenty20 has been called off. The governing council, comprising the founder Board members – Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket South Africa (CSA) held a conference on Friday to finalise new dates for the tournament but they decided to call it [...]