New Zealand Cricket eying next Champions League T20 despite setback
Despite Central Districts Stags’ recent whitewash in the 2010 Airtel Champions League T20, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 Cricket is hopeful that the country’s domestic T20 champions would be invited to the third edition of CL T20 next year. The NZC Chief Executive, Justin
Vaughan seems confident that stags are still a much cemented part of the reputed Champions League.
New Zealand’s domestic T20 giants, Otago and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Central-Districts-c777 have struggled to compete in the first two editions of the tournament but still Vaughan has high hopes for the third edition. "I would be confident that a New Zealand team is still a much cemented
part of the Champions League. Obviously, the tournament organizers have the ability to review that, but my understanding is that the number of teams would remain the same, if not expand", Vaughan told the reporters.
Earlier, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Otago-c829, the former New Zealand T20 champions had lost their both matches in the inaugural edition of the Champions League last year while Central Districts, the current New Zealand champions also faced a humiliating whitewash in the ongoing Champions
League, losing all their four games.
Their 74-run defeat against Sri Lanka’s Wayamba was the worst. Stags started their last group encounter as favorites but their line-up, which had earlier performed belligerently against some tough teams, looked out of flair against the listless Wayamba as
the whole team was bundled out for just 70 runs while chasing 144 for 6.
What made Central Districts the favorite side over Wayamba was their competitive performance against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Victoria-c859 Bushrangers and South Africa’s Warriors. They had taken both these games to the final over of the match for a result.
Vaughan added that no doubt the last game of Central Districts was a disappointing one but the poor performance of that match should not wipe out their competitiveness against other tougher sides. "Obviously, the final match was disappointing, but we shouldn't
lose sight of the fact that they were pretty competitive in a couple of their games. I don't think you can draw conclusions on the basis of one poor performance by the Stags."
Meanwhile, there are some mitigating factors as well behind Stags’ poor performance as they had lost their aggressive top-order batsman, Ross http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Napier-c1505.
After looking at the struggle of domestic champions in the Champions League, the New Zealand Cricket has finally decided to allow two overseas cricketers to each side in its domestic T20 Championship. Justin Vaughan maintained that this decision would make
New Zealand’s chances of contesting the next year’s event even brighter.
After NZC’s permission, the New Zealand franchises can now hire foreign players for the upcoming HRV Cup in December. The deal between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wellington-c864 Firebirds and Australian pacer Brett Lee is also part of NZC’s move to play foreigners in its domestic championships.
Finally, the Stags despite losing all of their games did earn financial gains from the CLT20. The side took home US$200,000 - US$400,000 as their share of prize money while another US$200,000 that the Royal Challengers Bangalore had paid them as compensation
for having Ross Taylor played for them. As per the NZC agreement, the Stags will get a share of two-seventh of the total money while remaining would be divided equally among the other franchises.
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