The Champions League T20 thread
Today, the First International Club Cricket Championship in cricketing history kicks off in Bangalore. What makes it exciting is that 12 top teams from 7 cricketing powerhouses will square off for a staggering price money of USD 5 million. The CLT20 website
quote that the Winner will take home USD 2.5 million - the total prize money for the ICC World T20 held in England.
Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Lets have a look at the squads-
THE TEAMS
INDIAN TEAMS
Deccan Chargers
Adam Gilchrist (c & wk)
Azhar Bilakhia
Fidel Edwards
Harmeet Singh
Ryan Harris (Bowling A/R)
VVS Laxman
Pragyan Ojha
Rohit Sharma
Shoaib Ahmed
RP Singh
Scott Styris (Batting A/R)
Tirumalasetti Suman
Andrew Symonds (Batting A/R)
Chaminda Vaas (Bowling A/R)
Venugopal Rao
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Anil Kumble (c)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Balachandra Akhil (Batting A/R)
Rajesh Bishnoi
Mark Boucher (wk)
Rahul Dravid
Jacques Kallis (Batting A/R)
Virat Kohli
Praveen Kumar
Manish Pandey
Dale Steyn
Ross Taylor
Robin Uthappa
Roelof van der Merwe (Bowling A/R)
Vinay Kumar
Delhi Daredevils
Gautam Gambhir (c)
Rajat Bhatia
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Dinesh Karthik (wk)
Mithun Manhas (Batting A/R)
Amit Mishra
Dirk Nannes
Ashish Nehra
Aavishkar Salvi
Pradeep Sangwan
Virender Sehwag
Owais Shah
Manoj Tiwary
Daniel Vettori
AUSTRALIAN TEAMS
New South Wales
Simon Katich (c)
Aaron Bird
Doug Bollinger
Stuart Clark
Nathan Hauritz
Moises Henriques (Batting A/R)
Phillip Hughes
Brett Lee
Steve O'Keefe (Bowling A/R)
Ben Rohrer
Daniel Smith (wk)
Steven Smith (Batting A/R)
Dominic Thornely
David Warner
Victoria
Cameron White (c)
Aiden Blizzard
Aaron Finch
Shane Harwood
John Hastings
Brad Hodge
Jon Holland
David Hussey
Andrew McDonald (Bowling A/R)
Bryce McGain
Clint McKay
James Pattinson
Rob Quiney
Peter Siddle
Matthew Wade (wk)
SOUTH AFRICAN TEAMS
Cape Cobras
Andrew Puttick (c)
Derek Brand
Ryan Canning (wk)
Henry Davids
Jean-Paul Duminy
Sybrand Engelbrecht
Herschelle Gibbs
Claude Henderson
Rory Kleinveldt
Charl Langeveldt
Richard Levi
Justin Ontong
Vernon Philander (Bowling A/R)
Francois Plaatjies
Monde Zondeki
Eagles
Boeta Dippenaar (c)
Ryan Bailey
Jandre Coetzee (Bowling A/R)
Cornelius de Villiers
Dillon du Preez
Dean Elgar
Reeza Hendricks
Alan Kruger
Adrian McLaren (wk)
Ryan McLaren (Bowling A/R)
Victor Mpitsang
Rilee Rossouw
Thandi Tshabalala
Shadley van Schalkwyk
Morne van Wyk
ENGLISH TEAMS
Somerset
Justin Langer (Captain)
Omari Banks (Bowling A/R)
Jos Buttler
Zander de Bruyn (Batting A/R)
Wes Durston (Batting A/R)
James Hildreth
Craig Kieswetter (Wicket-keeper)
Ben Phillips (Bowling A/R)
Arul Suppiah (Batting A/R)
Alfonso Thomas
Peter Trego (Batting A/R)
Marcus Trescothick
Mark Turner
Max Waller
Charl Willoughby
Sussex
Michael Yardy (c)
Will Beer
Ben Brown
Piyush Chawla (Bowling A/R)
Joe Gatting
Rory Hamilton-Brown (Batting A/R)
Andy Hodd (wk)
Ed Joyce
Chad Keegan
James Kirtley
Robin Martin-Jenkins (Batting A/R)
Chris Nash
Dwayne Smith (Batting A/R)
Luke Wright (Batting A/R)
Yasir Arafat (Bowling A/R)
NEW ZEALAND
Otago
Craig Cumming (c)
Nick Beard
Neil Broom
Ian Butler
Derek de Boorder (wk)
Matt Harvie
Brendon McCullum (wk)
Nathan McCullum (Bowling A/R)
James McMillan
Warren McSkimming
Dimitri Mascarenhas (Batting A/R)
Aaron Redmond
Hamish Rutherford
Greg Todd
Neil Wagner
SRI LANKA
Wayamba
Jehan Mubarak (c)
Ishara Amerasinghe
Sameera de Zoysa (wk)
Rangana Herath
Mahela Jayawardene
Shalika Karunanayake
Jeevantha Kulatunga
Kaushal Lokuarachchi
Farveez Maharoof (Bowling A/R)
Ajantha Mendis
Thissara Perera
Isuru Udana
Mahela Udawatte
Michael Vandort
Chanaka Welegedara
WEST INDIES
Trinidad & Tobago
Daren Ganga (Captain)
Samuel Badree
Adrian Barath
Dwayne Bravo (Batting A/R)
Darren Bravo
Rayad Emrit (Bowling A/R)
Sherwin Ganga (Bowling A/R)
Dave Mohammed (Bowling All-rounder)
Sunil Narine
William Perkins
Kieron Pollard
Denesh Ramdin (Wicket-keeper)
Ravi Rampaul
Lendl Simmons (Batting A/R)
Navin Stewart
THE GROUPS
Group A
Deccan Chargers
Trinidad & Tobago
Somerset
Group B
Sussex
New South Wales
Eagles
Group C
Cape Cobras
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Otago
Group D
Delhi Daredevils
Victoria
Wayamba
DAILY FIXTURES
1st Match: RCB vs Cape Cobras
Group C match at Bangalore
Oct 8
Result-
Dominating Duminy demolishes Royal Challengers Bangalore
2nd Match: Eagles v NSW
Group B match at Delhi
Oct 9