Four SA venues for Champions LeagueFriday, Jun 18 2010
Chennai: The Wanderers stadium (Johannesburg), St. Georges Park (Port Elizabeth), Kingsmead (Durban) and the Centurion Park (Centurion) will the venues for the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament to be held from September 10 to 26 in South Africa.
Winners of the 2010 Indian Premier League Chennai Super Kings, along with Mumbai Indians and the Royal Challengers Bangalore, are among the 10 teams that will be vying for honours.
Missing this year’s competition are teams from Pakistan, who declined to participate after no player from that country figured in the 2010 IPL auctions, and England who have cited a clash of dates with their domestic season.
Last year, the CLT20 was held in India with 12 teams in the fray, but the Super Kings failed to qualify after finishing fourth in the 2009 IPL.
Australian team, New South Wales won the trophy defeating Trinidad and Tobago (West Indies) in the final.
The participating teams in this year’s tournament are:
India - Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore
Australia- Victorian Bushrangers and South Australian Redbacks
South Africa - Warriors and Highveld Lions
New Zealand - Central Stags
Sri Lanka - Wayamba Elevens
The West Indies – To be announced.
The team from the Caribbean will be known only on conclusion of the West Indies T20 tournament next month.
The format for the tournament in South Africa will be finalized on June 28 in Singapore after the meeting of the governing council, but 23 matches are likely to be played.
South Africa has emerged as one of the favoured cricketing destinations following the successful conduct of the 2003 World Cup followed by the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 and the IPL in 2009 when it was shifted out of India due to security concerns.
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