Champions League T20 starting from 10th September
The much awaited second edition of the Champions League T20 is about to launch on the 10th of September. This time round, the tournament will be played in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 with 10 T20 domestic champions from around the world competing against each other to be crowned as the best T20 club in the world.
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The idea of the CLT20 came about after the roaring success of the Indian Premier League's first season in India. The tournament started to take shape as officials from England, India, Australia, and South Africa entered into discussions to create an international inter-club competition in 2008. Ever since the advent of this event, franchise-based clubs have grown big over the years.
Quite similar to the first edition of the CLT20, players had the choice to pick between two or more sides to play from. Players who can play for more than one team in this tournament include Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Makhaya-Ntini-c73953, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo and Cameron White - a difficult scenario to comprehend indeed.
The entire confusion began when Warriors Chief Dave Emslie stated that Jacques Kallis and his contractual obligations with the Royal Challengers Bangalore did not give his home team much of a chance to retain his services for the upcoming CLT20. On the other hand, Bangalore officials were hoping that Kallis would pick their IPL team over South Africa’s domestic champions. The seeming deadlock came about after the Warriors and the Royal Challengers Bangalore both qualified for the second edition of the CLT20 - two teams which are quite near to Jacques Kallis at home and in India.
As a result, players such as Kallis and many other international stars had to choose between their state teams and their international clubs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shashank-Manohar-c89791, the President of the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI), who is the Chairman of CLT20 as well, finally came out with a final conclusion. If a player chooses to play for an “away” team rather than his “home” team in 2010, the “away” team must pay $200,000 compensation money to the “home” team. No compensation is payable to an “away” team would be given if a player chooses to play for his “home” team.
Besides Kallis, other international players including Cameron White and Ross http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Central-Districts-c777 respectively. The Bangalore franchise has compensated each club with three US$200,000 instalments. Pollard and Bravo will represent the Mumbai Indians as their domestic IPL team, Trinidad and Tobago, failed to qualify for the tournament this year.
The tournament's governing council member and Director of Legal and Business affairs, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dean-Kino-c53388 said, “CLT20 regulations stipulate that with Jacques Kallis, Ross Taylor and Cameron White playing for their IPL franchise instead of their home teams, RCB must compensate the Warriors, Central Stags and Victorian Bushrangers US$200,000 each respectively. While a number of other players were eligible to play for more than one team in South Africa, no compensation is payable due to their home teams not qualifying for this year's event.”
CLT20's South African journey is expected to be a roaring success due to the hype created by the media, Bollywood and the money at stake. Let the cricket begin.
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