Tuesday 12 August 2014

Bangalore, Mohali, Raipur and Hyderabad will host clt20

Mohali, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Raipur will have the sixth version of the Champions League Twenty20, to be played from September 13 to October 4. Kolkata Knight Riders, the IPL champs, will confront 2010 Clt20 champions Chennai Super Kings on September 17 at Hyderabad in the principle draw opener. The qualifiers will be played at Raipur from September 13 to 16.


The competition has held its last year's arrangement with 12 groups vying for an aggregate prize cash of $6 million, as per a Clt20 media discharge. Banning the group from West Indies, the champ of the continuous Caribbean Premier League, the staying 11 groups have been affirmed. The competition will see four groups from India, two each from Australia and South Africa and one each from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and New Zealand.

Lahore Lions, Northern Districts and South Express, the household T20 champions from Pakistan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka separately, alongside IPL's fourth-put group Mumbai Indians, will confront one another in the qualifying stage. The main two groups from the stage will advancement to the principle draw, which will be separated into two gatherings of five each.

Mumbai Indians, on the off chance that they qualify, will move to Group B. The calendar makes it clear that the coordinators would incline toward four IPL groups to be separated just as in the principle draw. While Knight Riders and Super Kings are set in Group A, Kings XI Punjab, who will be making their Clt20 presentation, are in Group B.

Of the 29 recreations to be played in the three weeks in September, Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur, the home of Chhattisgarh cricket, will organize eight matches, including every one of the six qualifying diversions. This will be an alternate open door for the Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh, which facilitated two IPL diversions in 2013, to put forth a defense for being allowed with the full-part status of the BCCI.

"This is a huge achievement for Chhattisgarh cricket," CSCS president Baldev Singh Bhatia said. "No affiliate or associate member had hosted an IPL game till we did so last year. And now the BCCI has entrusted us with bigger responsibility by allotting the most number of matches, including those of the visiting team from Pakistan.

"Hosting such prestigious matches will hopefully take us closer to attaining the full-member status and thereby ensuring that the local cricketers from the state are rewarded for their hardwork with a place in the Ranji Trophy."

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