Champions League Twenty20 2011

[Ahmad94]

Has KKR qualified for CLT20

 

[Dipak]

Fantastic BCCI , just fantastic , 4 possible Indian teams in a 10 team tournament ! Just give the trophy to an IPL side already !

Champions League T20 2011: IPL considering CLT20 qualifying stage | Cricket News | Indian Premier League 2011 | ESPN Cricinfo

Confirmed teams as of now :

Redbacks (Aus)
Blues (Aus)
Cobras (RSA)
Warriors (RSA)
Super Kings (Ind)
Challengers (Ind)
Indians (Ind)
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Having to qualify via playoffs :

Auckland (Nz)
Trinidad (Wi)

Can injustice get any better than what you're seeing now?

That's too much injustice. Haven't the other teams already done so well to win the respective tournament and now they are thrown into another by BCCI. Really ████. Shame on them.

 

[Params7]

BCCI has 50% stake in this so **** yeah we're gonna have a handful of IPL teams and more next year. Deal with it or don't watch it.

 

[Insomniac]

I love how no Pakistani team will be in attendance, in either the actual tournament itself, nor the qualifier.

Hmm? 4 IPL teams, yet no Pakistani.

Blatant discrimination.

 

[Gurjot95]

Crap! Not going to watch this ████. Chances are high that 9 IPL teams may participate in 10 team competition soon.

 

[Haarithan]

BCCI has 50% stake in this so **** yeah we're gonna have a handful of IPL teams and more next year. Deal with it or don't watch it.

Don't worry , we(a majority of us) wont .

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Add to that the following loot of talents by the IPL sides :

Bollinger (NSW) -> CSK
Bravo (T&T) -> CSK
Pollard (T&T) -> MI
Blizzard (SA) -> MI
Jacobs (CW) -> MI

This is only as of now .

 

[Dipak]

One more.
Blizzard (SA) -> Mumbai (unlikely)
Jacobs (CW) -> Mumbai (unlikely)

IPL and BCCI = ████ ████ ████

 

[CG123]

BCCI has 50% stake in this so **** yeah we're gonna have a handful of IPL teams and more next year. Deal with it or don't watch it.

Spot on, the "BCCI has 50% stake" is the whole problem with with the tournament.

The thing that makes it even more tweaked up is that a lot of the Indians on here aren't even happy with it.

India has 268 times the population we have, so it doesn't take a genius to work out that having more IPL teams ahead of NZ and WI teams is going to increase the popularity of the tournament in India (which is going to boost it's global popularity because of the share weight of population). Even I can see that, and from a business prospective they might as well just engage with the other three main markets, SA, Aus, and Eng, and forget about us altogether.

This is however meant to be a Champions League, which is meant to be a serious event, not some pajama party run by the BCCI like the IPL is.

If the ICC ever what to make the game of cricket more global, they have to forgot about the BCCI. Let the BCCI have the IPL and I'm happy if that's continued to be sanctioned by the ICC because that pays our player's bills, but the longer the BCCI continue to have a say in the Champions League, the further away from an actual Champions League it is actually going to be.

Firstly the ICC need to grow a pair and say that the home players are going to play for their home country, none of this ████ that happened with CD last year where the only reason they got their (Taylor) wasn't even playing. (It also didn't help that their two best bowlers Napier and Oram were injured)

Tbh I can't be bothered going on any further, you get my point now:

ICC = ****en joke
BCCI = ****en joke

 

[Ahmad94]

I love how no Pakistani team will be in attendance, in either the actual tournament itself, nor the qualifier.

Hmm? 4 IPL teams, yet no Pakistani.

Blatant discrimination.

Totally agree. Even sri lankan teams will be included this year. No pakistan. lOL. Wanted to see Imran Nazir show 'em how pakistan do it.

 

[Bevab]

As long as BCCI run it, its not CLT20.

 

[War]

Spot on, the "BCCI has 50% stake" is the whole problem with with the tournament.

The thing that makes it even more fried chickened up is that a lot of the Indians on here aren't even happy with it.

India has 268 times the population we have, so it doesn't take a genius to work out that having more IPL teams ahead of NZ and WI teams is going to increase the popularity of the tournament in India (which is going to boost it's global popularity because of the share weight of population). Even I can see that, and from a business prospective they might as well just engage with the other three main markets, SA, Aus, and Eng, and forget about us altogether.

This is however meant to be a Champions League, which is meant to be a serious event, not some pajama party run by the BCCI like the IPL is.

If the ICC ever what to make the game of cricket more global, they have to forgot about the BCCI. Let the BCCI have the IPL and I'm happy if that's continued to be sanctioned by the ICC because that pays our player's bills, but the longer the BCCI continue to have a say in the Champions League, the further away from an actual Champions League it is actually going to be.

Firstly the ICC need to grow a pair and say that the home players are going to play for their home country, none of this ████ that happened with CD last year where the only reason they got their (Taylor) wasn't even playing. (It also didn't help that their two best bowlers Napier and Oram were injured)

Tbh I can't be bothered going on any further, you get my point now:

ICC = fried chickenen joke
BCCI = fried chickenen joke

As i always say. Its not that the ICC dont have balls, its just that they are most poorly structured, major sporting governing body on planet earth. None of those problems cant be eradicated unless the ICC is revamped into a proper governing body & the power that the BCCI has in the game is immediately cut out out.

Plus i would think a proper ICC would not allow the IPL & Champions League to be in a yearly cricket calendar. That is T20 overkill, especially when you consider this year champions league has forced the Australia vs S Africa test series to be cut to just two tests.

Only one of the IPL (IPL in revamped format however) or the C League can be in a yearly cricket calendar.

 

[CG123]

As i always say. Its not that the ICC dont have balls, its just that they are most poorly structured, major sporting governing body on planet earth. None of those problems cant be eradicated unless the ICC is revamped into a proper governing body & the power that the BCCI has in the game is immediately cut out out.

Plus i would think a proper ICC would not allow the IPL & Champions League to be in a yearly cricket calendar. That is T20 overkill, especially when you consider this year champions league has forced the Australia vs S Africa test series to be cut to just two tests.

Only one of the IPL (IPL in revamped format however) or the C League can be in a yearly cricket calendar.

Yes they are poorly structured, but I also think at times they don't stand up to the BCCI, for one reason or another. For example with the reviews, they should be in all test matches, whether the BCCI like it or not. But yeah, the ICC needs to get revamped, and like you say the BCCI needs to get cut.

Even though I'm not a fan of the IPL, I think there is a place for it, but it should only be a single round robin. And in terms of the CL, I think again it can be a yearly occurrence, but it should just be the top team from each of the major eight nations leagues, split them up into two pools of four, semis and a final, that's 15 games of T20 cricket, which can be over in two weeks.

FTR I'd prefer the ICC to FIFA. At least I don't think the ICC is as badly corrupted as FIFA are.

 

[War]

Yes they are poorly structured, but I also think at times they don't stand up to the BCCI, for one reason or another. For example with the reviews, they should be in all test matches, whether the BCCI like it or not. But yeah, the ICC needs to get revamped, and like you say the BCCI needs to get cut.

Even though I'm not a fan of the IPL, I think there is a place for it, but it should only be a single round robin. And in terms of the CL, I think again it can be a yearly occurrence, but it should just be the top team from each of the major eight nations leagues, split them up into two pools of four, semis and a final, that's 15 games of T20 cricket, which can be over in two weeks.

FTR I'd prefer the ICC to FIFA. At least I don't think the ICC is as badly corrupted as FIFA are.

Ye although the ICC is lame luck & cant make the BCCI do anything. They can certainly publicly stand up & state the IND that they want them to use URDS in tests. Since its pretty much a disrespect to test cricket than you can have one series playing with URDS & another without it.

But the ICC in a way have made some mistakes with how the use the URDS. They should foot the bill for at least 80% of its cost. Asking weak financial member boards to pay 100% of the bill like WI, NZ, SRI is a bit taxing.


I also think their is place for the IPL, just not in its current format with the 4-player international rule restriction. The IPL could easily the premiership of world cricket if teams can play how many international players they want. The rich Indian businessmen just have to spend money wisely in the auction & buy limited amount of international players in their respective teams. Then we would have an outstanding T20 tournament of high quality. As it stands the T20 world-cup is a much better standard of cricket than the IPL given the amount of joke Indian players that make up an average IPL team.

Plus the IPL would still be able to promote young Indian talent if various IPL teams have right balance of:

- International stars
- Indian local stars
- Quality Indian youngsters

Since in the 4 seasons of the IPL, not many IPL local Indian stars have done well on the international stage compared to the Ranji Trophy.


Your idea of that CL format sounds good yea, but really i dont think cricket needs two annual T20 tournaments years regardless of how short your idea of the CL could be. Especially when we have a T20 world-cup every two years.


FIFA's corruption is not structural though. Its corruption is up in highest levels of the executive committee which never happened before until Seep Blatter became president. The foolishness that happens in cricket with regards to the IPL, ICL, URDS, Pakistan cricket corruption, match-fixing, players taking drugs would never happen in the football world.

Cricket corruption is one member board (BCCI) basically running the game in the shadows. Given that crickets executive committee is lame duck.

 

[Sahil 7]

so here is the features of new CLT20 format Cricket | Airtel CLT20 | Thirteen teams for ACLT20 | ESPNSTAR.com

there will be 13 teams 7 teams already qualified other six have to play a qualifier matches to enter into the tournament and kkr is also there in it so there is no question in that there will be 4 indian team this season

 

[CG123]

They might as well just run a second IPL instead of the CL. Maybe chuck in South Australia (Australian winners) and the Cape Cobras (South African winners) instead of Pune and Delhi.