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***Official*** T20 Champions League in South Africa

Daemon

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Arjun said:
I'll back one of Mumbai and Bangalore for this event, for the Indian players to figure.

I may be late on the discussion, but what's stopping Ross Taylor or Mike Hussey from playing for his chosen or home team? They can refuse the pay hikes, and the boards can support them. They won't go bankrupt if they oppose their IPL franchise, will they? It can put those greedy franchise owners- the real villains of the pack- in place. And what's stopping the governing body from restricting the maximum number of overseas players in a team to level things out? Or pushing aside the franchise owners to give the players a choice? The franchise owners need these internationals in those patched-up teams a lot more than the BCCI, surely.

Why can't they exclude the IPL from the Champions' League? It's anyway a platform for IPL contracts, not the ultimate event. They can make do with Indian state teams, and that won't hurt the league much. The IPL teams hardly did much in the last league, and were outperformed by the Aussies, Somerset, Trinidad and Cape Cobras, with only two internationals between those teams. A full-strength Mumbai or Karnataka or Delhi can be just as competitive as the top IPL teams and a lot more than Deccan Chargers.

Looking at each country's representation per team in this event, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies field completely home-grown teams, making it eleven. New Zealand and Australia have at least nine or ten, with the gates open only this year in Australia. England have it high with nine, though they're not in the event, while Pakistan could easily field eleven. India, on the other hand, can just manage seven in a team. Doesn't that suggest something odd here? Yes, there's a third IPL team, but that's because the Pakistani team isn't in the mix, nor does any other country have an extra team.

Yet, these other teams do well with little to no overseas involvement, but IPL does not wish to learn. They've tried to set aside local players for the benefit of overseas signings, even those who are barely established. It didn't work in the Champions' League, but it still seems to go on, and the sooner something is done, the better.

This makes me want to root for Central Districts against Bangalore with Ross Taylor. Really.
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Agreed completely. Although if they removed the IPL teams, viewership in India will probably go down by a significant amount.

Another thing, why has Pakistan been excluded again? They could replace one of the IPL teams (2nd runners up - RCB) with a good domestic Pakistani side.
 
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SeamUp

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Likely line-ups for the SA teams...

WARRIORS

1. Jon-Jon Smuts
2. Ashwell Prince
3. Colin Ingram
4. Davey Jacobs (*)
5. Mark Boucher (+)
6. Craig Thyssen
7. Nicky Boje
8. Johan Botha
9. Rusty Theron
10. Makhaya Ntini
11. Garnett Kruger/Lonwabo Tsotsobe

Reserves: Arno Jacobs, Justin Kreusch, Lyall Meyer

Missing is Jacques Kallis (Bangalore) and Wayne Parnell (injury) & Bashheer Walters (new signing)

LIONS

1. Jonathan Vandiar
2. Alviro Petersen (*)
3. Neil McKenzie
4. Vaughn van Jaarsveld
5. Zander de Bruyn
6. Richard Cameron
7. Thami Tsolekile (+)
8. Rob Frylinck
9. Aaron Phangiso/ Werner Coetsee
10. Ethan O'Reilly/ Cliffe Deacon
11. Craig Alexander

RESERVES: Jean Symes & Shane Burger

Missing: Stephen Cook, Paul Harris (new signing) & Andre Nel.
 
aussie

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This is a nice competition in theory & all. But in the long term the both Champions League & the IPL cannot exist in a yearly cricket calendar. One has to go, since thats T20 overkill.
 
Sir Alex

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aussie said:
This is a nice competition in theory & all. But in the long term the both Champions League & the IPL cannot exist in a yearly cricket calendar. One has to go, since thats T20 overkill.
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No more overkill than 7 match OneDays and Ind-SL encounters every tuesday and thursday tbh.
 
aussie

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Sir Alex said:
No more overkill than 7 match OneDays and Ind-SL encounters every tuesday and thursday tbh.
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Well yea, the overall international calendar is broke. 7 match ODI series should have been abolished a longgg time ago - no ODI series should exceed 5 ODIs. While the IND & SL boards got to know why the have been playing each other so much in that past 2 years or so.

But we cant have two T20 tournaments in on-year - madness. A T20 WC every 2 years along with either the IPL (preferably a revampled IPL) or the Champions League every, is enough T20 cricket.

Perfectly every tour should have 3 tests - 3 ODIs - 3 T20s. Of course icon series like the Ashes, ENG vs SA (maybe IND vs PAK) would exceed 3 tests.
 
Spudsy2061

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aussie said:
Well yea, the overall international calendar is broke. 7 match ODI series should have been abolished a longgg time ago - no ODI series should exceed 5 ODIs.

But we cant have two T20 tournaments in on-year - madness. A T20 WC every 2 years along with either the IPL (preferably a revampled IPL) or the Champions League every, is enough T20 cricket.
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Disagree somewhat since I think the 9 ODIs between England and Australia are necessary for both countries this year given that the WC follows immediately after the Ashes.

I think the 2 T20 tournaments could work IF AND ONLY IF the T20 World Cup moves to once every 4 years.
 
kingpin

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Meanwhile in practice games VB beat MI by 7 wickets in hand Happy to see tiwary(48*) and Rayudu(53) to get some runs And RCB defeated central stags by 22 runs and Uttappa(53* of 29 balls),Pandey(40) and white(36*) chipped with some useful runs.....

It is good to see young guns doing well and if Robin continues this form he surely will book his place in coming up ODI series....:cool:

Match highlights : http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/video_audio/476121.html?genre=37
 
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