Story International 20/20 Club Championship | Squad submissions: confirm your final 16!

[Na Maloom Afraad]

In 2004, the England & Wales Cricket Board held an invitational match between the English and South African 20/20 champions in the build-up to the Twenty20 Cup. Surrey Lions, winners of the ECB Invitational, were mistakenly reported as “International Club Champions” by a media outlet, prompting a moment of eureka from the ECB and leading to the creation of the International 20/20 Club Championship, cricket's very own Champions League.

Spoiler: Actual lore

A T20 Champions League was the first league I ever attempted to run on the forums, and needless to say, I had no idea what I was doing for its brief and inconclusive run. About eight and a half years ago, I gave this weird obssesion of mine another go with the CLT20 Rewind league, and again, I did not know what I was doing. It was a haphazard league, poorly put together with no real longterm planning behind it. It too was shelved, but with a much longer run than the original league. Since then, I've spent my free time in research and preparation for what this idea can truly become, and with a great deal of help from @Aislabie, who basically outlined the entire run of this league, I finally feel confident enough to relaunch a very basic but compelling idea (IMHO): what if cricket gained its own Champions League the very moment the T20 format was born?

Simulator used: @Kshitiz_Indian's T20 Cricket Simulator 09

*Please do not ask to reserve a team for future editions; I will not reserve it. Please know that you will not be allowed to auto-retain a team you previously managed either.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

In The News​

20/20 'Champions League' takes shape
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is all set to launch the International 20/20 Club Championship, with all reigning domestic 20/20 champions from around the world converging to take part in the competition, which is to be held between June 13 and 17 at Grace Road and The Oval.​

ECB to host South African 20/20 champions in Invitational Match
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced details earlier today of a one-off invitational match set to take place at The Oval later this month. This marquee fixture will pit the English Twenty20 Cup winners, Surrey Lions, against South Africa's own 20/20 titleholders, the Diamond Eagles.

Allan Donald named in Eagles squad for ECB Invitational
Diamond Eagles, the South African Standard Bank Pro20 Series winners, have named their squad for the ECB Invitational. Nicky Boje will lead the team, which includes Loots Bosman, an explosive batsman who ripped apart oppositions in the Pro20 Series, finishing as the tournament's highest run-scorer. The squad also includes Thandi Tshabalala and Cliffe Deacon, as well as Boeta Dippenaar and Morne van Wyk, future South African prospects.

Surrey Lions become International Club Champions
Surrey's pursuit of 165 began with early wobbles that saw them reeling at 30/4 before the seasoned duo of Adam Hollioake (60 off 40) and Mark Ramprakash (50 off 38) steadied the ship with a substantial 105-run stand, shifting the momentum back in Surrey's favor. A late flurry of wickets kept the Lions on their toes before Surrey captain Jonathan Batty sealed the game in dramatic fashion with a four and a six off Allan Donald in the final over.​

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[Neo 7]

Faisalabad Wolves

solo manager .

 

[Till Valhalla]

Any team

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Any team

Name and shame

 

[Till Valhalla]

Name and shame

Is Vaas available in the Sri Lankan team?

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Is Vaas available in the Sri Lankan team?

No sir

 

[Till Valhalla]

No sir

Tbh don't know what to do. Maybe Titans

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Tbh don't know what to do. Maybe Titans

Titans it is then.

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

Surrey

 

[DuneTiger]

Glamorgan please

 

[mohsin7827]

Leicestershire Foxes

 

[Perfect Square]

I'll take one team if it's available sir.

 

[Aravind.]

It seems I missed the bus, wishing the best for others.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Wonderful. Now that we have managers for all six clubs, we can now move on to the next bit.

Please confirm your 16-player squad for the tournament. Players available to each club are listed below:

Spoiler: Chilaw Marians

Coach: @Perfect Square
2004 Twenty-20 Tournament (Sri Lanka)

Ishan Mutaliph
Arosha Perera

Malintha Gajanayake
Hasantha Fernando

Gayan Wijekoon
Nimesh Perera snr

Sahan Wijeratne
Dilruwan Perera
Praneth Jayasundera

Chandana Aravinda
Suresh Niroshan
Janaka Gunaratne

Dammika Perera
Manoj Chanaka
Omesh Wijesiriwardene

Sanahasa Fernando
Ranil Dhammika

Spoiler: Faisalabad Wolves

Coach: @Neo 7
2005 ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup

Mohammad Hafeez
Abdul Mannan
Shahid Muzaffar

Usman Arshad
Asif Hussain
Naved Latif

Misbah-ul-Haq
Ijaz Ahmed jnr
Khurram Shehzad

Mohammad Saleem
Imran Ali
Mohammad Salman

Mohammad Zaman
Imran Khalid
Kamran Naeem

Ahmed Hayat
Tauqeer Hussain
Shahid Nazir
Samiullah Khan
Ali Raza
Faisal Afridi

Farooq Iqbal
Saeed Ajmal
Shafqat Hussain

Spoiler: Glamorgan Dragons

Coach: @DuneTiger
2004 Twenty20 Cup

Matthew Maynard
Sourav Ganguly
Matthew Elliott

Michael O'Shea
Ian Thomas
Richard Grant

Mike Powell
David Hemp
Daniel Cherry

Mark Wallace
Jonathan Hughes
Robert Croft

Darren Thomas
Ryan Watkins

Simon Jones
Alex Wharf
Andrew Davies
David Harrison
Adam Harrison
Huw Waters

Dean Cosker

Spoiler: Leicestershire Foxes

Coach: @mohsin7827
2004 Twenty20 Cup

Tom New
HD Ackerman
Darren Maddy

Chris Rogers
Aftab Habib

Dinesh Mongia
John Sadler
Darren Robinson

Jeremy Snape
Jim Allenby
Paul Harrison

John Maunders
Paul Nixon
Phil DeFreitas

Ottis Gibson
David Brignull
David Masters
Stuart Broad
Charl Willoughby
Charlie Dagnall
Ryan Cummins

Claude Henderson

Spoiler: Surrey Lions

Coach: @Paranoid Kendroid
2004 Twenty20 Cup

James Benning
Ali Brown
Dominic Thornely

Mark Ramprakash
Richard Clinton
Stewart Walters

Chris Murtagh
Graham Thorpe
Mark Butcher

Scott Newman
Jonathan Batty
Rikki Clarke
Rory Hamilton-Brown

Azhar Mahmood
Ian Salisbury
Andy Hodd

Neil Saker
Tim Murtagh
Phil Sampson
Jimmy Ormond
Jade Dernbach
Martin Bicknell
Mohammad Akram

Saqlain Mushtaq
Harbhajan Singh
Nayan Doshi

Spoiler: Titans

Coach: @Till Valhalla
2005 Standard Bank Pro20 Series

Maurice Aronstam
Alviro Petersen
AB de Villiers

Jacques Rudolph
Martin van Jaarsveld
Johann Myburgh

Gerald Dros
Justin Kemp
Daryll Cullinan

Gulam Bodi
Zander de Bruyn
Geoffrey Toyana

Albie Morkel
Pierre de Bruyn
Kruger van Wyk

Andre Nel
Siraag Abrahams
Alfonso Thomas
Dale Steyn
Ethy Mbhalati
Morné Morkel

Paul Harris

Players struck through are considered retired, but they can be coaxed out of retirement for the 20/20 Club Championship.
Players with the symbol next to their name will be made unavaiable due to national duty/clashing international fixtures.

You may not drop or change your captain unless he has retired.

Since this tournament takes place bang in the middle of the English domestic summer, squads for the English counties comprise of players currently under contract, as opposed to the touring clubs, who's player pools comprise of players from the season they qualified/were invited from.

Ratings: Players will be rated according to their performances in the T20 tournament of the season they qualified from, and the English clubs' players will be rated according to the ongoing season's T20 tournament (2005 Twenty20 Cup), even though they did qualify from the previous year's tournament. Players who did not play in their respective T20 tournaments will be rated according to their performances in the List A and First-Class tournaments.

Important: English counties aren't exactly 'bound' by the squad restrictions since this is pretty much part of the domestic calendar for them, so they may call up replacement players should someone get ruled out due to an injury, which, the touring clubs can not do.

Lemme know if you have any queries or questions regarding anything.