South Africa will be hosting the second season of the Indian Premier League to begin from April 18. The deal was sealed after IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi met Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola on Tuesday afternoon and South Africa agreed to offer full support to the IPL. South Africa have also assured top security [...]
Ending three weeks of suspense and uncertainty, the IPL chose South Africa for hosting the second edition of the highly popular Twenty20 cricket tournament that will start from April 18. The decision to host the tournament in South Africa in preference to England was taken primarily on account favourable weather conditions here, IPL Commissioner Lalit [...]
Season two of the Indian Premier League will be played outside India. The final schedule and venue will be announced on Monday. The high-profile Twenty20 tournament might be held in some other country, possibly England, after a BCCI working committee meeting decided to shift the tournament out of India. The tournament will have all the [...]
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 [...]
With difficulties in finding a window for the postponed Champions League, the cricket officials from India, Australia and South Africa have decided to hold a telephonic conference on Friday to sort out a date for the Twenty20 tournament. Scheduled to be held from December 3-10, the Champions League tournament, which will showcase top domestic Twenty20 [...]
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 $6 million tournament. The eight-team tournament was earlier scheduled to be held in India from December 3-10 but had to be postponed after terror struck [...]
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have confirmed they are planning a multi-nation franchise-owned Twenty20 tournament based on the IPL, which they hope to launch by 2011. Although the competition is still in the planning stages, the idea is to have city-based teams and schedule it at a time that would allow Indian stars to [...]
The Board of Contorl for Cricket in India (BCCI) will be the biggest gainer as it is windfall time for the three founding members of Champions Twenty20 League after inking the massive US$ 975 million television rights deal with ESPN-STAR, with the Indian board hogging 50 per cent of the amount. According to media reports [...]
The Indian Cricket Board on Wednesday rejected the holding of the Champions Trophy in October 2009 becuase of clash of date with the home ODI series against Australia. The BCCI made their opposition to the Champions Trophy dates in the ICC’s Chief Executives meeting on Wednesday and the matter will be discussed in the ICC [...]
Click here for the Champions League T20 2009 Schedule The 2009 edition of the Champions Twenty20 League will take place next year between September 25 and October 11, and will feature 12 teams, four more than the eight this year in the first edition to be held between December 3-10, 2008. The dates were announced [...]
The inaugural Champions League Twenty20 will be played between December 3 and 10, instead of October, the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa have announced. Thus keeping in mind the dates change, the first Test between Australia and South Africa in Perth has been pushed back from December 12 to December 17. The eight-team [...]
The organisers of the Champions T20 League on Wednesday agreed to ‘explore’ the options for scheduling of the inaugural event after the ICC Board held a telephone hook-up on the issue. “The Board of Control for Cricket in India, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa offered to explore, with the ICC’s management, the scheduling of [...]
The ICC board will discuss on Wednesday the potential impact of the Champions Twenty20 League, which is being held from September 29 to October 8, on the ICC Champions Trophy that ends in Lahore on September 28. Representatives from BCCI, Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket South Africa (CSA), the founding partners of the Champions Twenty20 [...]
The ICC has indicated its displeasure over the conduct of the Twenty20 Champions League immediately after the Champions Trophy in Pakistan in September and has written about this in an email sent to its member boards. The email said the scheduling of an international event within seven days of an ICC tournament is contrary to [...]