Administrator
BCCI, CA, CSA
Format
Twenty20
First tournament
2009
Tournament format
Round-robin and knockout
Current champion
India Chennai Super Kings
Most successful
India Chennai Super Kings (1 title)
Australia New South Wales Blues (1 title)
Most runs India Murali Vijay (294)
Most wickets Trinidad and Tobago Dwayne Bravo (16)
Website clt20.com
The Champions League Twenty20 is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between club teams from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies.
The competition was launched in 2008 as a response to the success of national Twenty20 domestic cricket leagues, most notably the Indian Premier League. The first edition was set to take place from late September to early October 2008 in India, after the tournament organisers resolved various problems that had put the inaugural tournament under some doubt,[2] but it was later announced that the tournament would be held from December 3 to December 10, 2008. The tournament was postponed again following terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 and was later cancelled.
The first tournament was then held in October 2009. Indian mobile service Bharti Airtel bought the title sponsorship rights for the 2009 Champions League for the reported amount of Indian Rupee symbol.svg170cr (USD 38.4 million).
2011 season will be played in September–October in India. On 3 August 2011, title sponsor Airtel ended its three-year deal worth Indian Rupee symbol.svg150-crore (USD 40 million) after just two years, citing low viewership.
Nokia has signed a four-year deal for title sponsorship in August 2011.
Champions League Twenty20 2011 Fixture
