champions league

 The Airtel Champions League Twenty20 is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between club teams from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies. The Champions League Twenty20 is chaired by Shashank Manohar, who is the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and President of the BCCI.
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The competition was launched in 2008 as a response to the success of national Twenty20 domestic cricket leagues, most notably the Indian Premier League.[1] The first edition was set to take place from late September to early October 2008 in India, after the tournament organisers resolved various problems that had put the inaugural tournament under some doubt,[2] but it was later announced that the tournament would be held from December 3 to December 10, 2008.[3] The tournament was postponed again following terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008[4] and was later cancelled.[5]

The first tournament was then held in October 2009. Indian mobile service Bharti Airtel bought the title sponsorship rights for the 2009 Champions League for the reported amount of Indian Rupee symbol.svg170cr (USD 38.4 million).[6]

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An international tournament for domestic cricket teams is believed to have been first mooted by Lalit Modi, vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 1996, Lalit Modi was also the chairman and commissioner on the IPL.[7] The launch and subsequent success of Twenty20 cricket some years later was the influence behind a serious effort to get such a tournament off the ground. Twenty20 cricket was launched by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003.[8] Its launch was a result of a long-term decline in the popularity of county championship and domestic limited-overs cricket. By reducing the number of overs per innings to twenty and by placing a three hour limit on matches, the format was designed to attract a younger crowd and to boost attendances.[8] Twenty20 proved a success, with an international version, International 20:20 Club Championship, launched in 2005 and a World Twenty20 Competition held in September 2007. This proved much more popular than the 50 over Cricket World Cup had been just five months previously.[9] The following year, the Indian Premier League (IPL) was launched, proving that there could be a market for a big-spending domestic Twenty20 cricket league.[10] The success of Twenty20 and the IPL lead many commentators to suggest that other forms of cricket would suffer, with some worrying about the effect of the popular fast-paced 'slogging' game on players' abilities in Test cricket.[10][11]

Immediately after the end of the first series of the IPL, the cricket authorities in England, India, Australia and South Africa entered into discussions to create a new international club competition, to capitalize on this success.[1] The new tournament's $2.5m winning prize was described as "unprecedented" in cricket.[1] A number of different formats for the tournament were considered, with original proposals containing a much lower prize fund.[12] The T20 Champions League's creation was announced on 7 June 2008, along with the announcement of planned restructuring of some of the domestic cricket tournaments involved, including the introduction of franchising in South Africa, England and Australia.[7]
[edit] Results
[edit] Tournament results
Year Host Nation(s) Final Venue Final Teams
Winner Result Runner-up
2008 India India India MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai[13] Cancelled due to 26/11 Mumbai Attacks 8
2009 India India India Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad[14] Australia New South Wales Blues
159 for 9 (20 overs) won by 41 runs Scorecard Trinidad and Tobago
118 all out (15.5 overs) 12
2010 South Africa South Africa South Africa New Wanderers, Johannesburg India Chennai Super Kings
132 for 2 (19 overs) won by 8 wickets Scorecard South Africa Warriors
128 for 6 (20 overs) 10
[edit] Individual records
Individual records
Most runs
Batsman Runs Tournaments
India Murali Vijay (Chennai Super Kings) 293 2010
South Africa Davy Jacobs (Warriors) 292 2010
South Africa JP Duminy (Mumbai Indians, Cape Cobras) 290 2009, 2010
Most wickets
Bowler Wickets Tournaments
Trinidad and Tobago Dwayne Bravo (Mumbai Indians, Trinidad & Tobago) 16 2009, 2010
Australia Clint McKay (Victoria Bushrangers) 14 2009, 2010
India Ravichandran Ashwin (Chennai Super Kings) 13 2010
Most catches
Wicketkeeper Dismissals(Catches + Stumps) Tournaments
India MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings) 11 2010
Australia Matthew Wade (Victoria Bushrangers) 8 2009, 2010
Australia Graham Manou (South Australia) 6 2010
Most sixes
Player Sixes Tournaments
Trinidad and Tobago Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians, Trinidad & Tobago) 28 2009, 2010
India Suresh Raina (Chennai Super Kings) 12 2010
New Zealand Ross Taylor (Royal Challengers Bangalore) 11 2009, 2010
[edit] Media coverage

Television

Countries Broadcaster
India Star Cricket, Star Sports
Sri Lanka Star Cricket, Star Sports
Singapore Star Cricket, Star Sports
Bahrain Cric One
Malaysia Star Cricket, Star Sports
Hong Kong Star Sports
Australia ONE HD
New Zealand SKY Sports
United Kingdom British Eurosport
United States Directv
Canada CBN, ATN Cricket Plus
Europe Eurosport 2
Pakistan GEO Super
South Africa Supersport
Saudi Arabia ART Prime Sport
Middle East ART Prime Sport
[edit] Theme song

The theme song for the Champions League Twenty20 is composed and performed by A.R.Rahman.[15] This was the first song composed by Rahman for a sporting event.

In the 2010 edition at South Africa Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias proposed a new theme song that was played often throughout the league along with Rahman's.