{"id":660,"date":"2009-10-08T04:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T22:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/?p=660"},"modified":"2009-10-08T04:10:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T22:40:08","slug":"champions-league-twenty20-team-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/2009\/10\/08\/champions-league-twenty20-team-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League Twenty20 Team Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Airtel_Champions_League_T20\"<\/a> Firm favourites: IPL champions Deccan Chargers are favourites for the Champions League Twenty20, with Adam Gilchrist one of their main threats<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cape Cobras<\/strong> (South Africa)
\nSouth Africa\u2019s Twenty20 champions are a strong side with experience in the form of Herschelle Gibbs, Jean-Paul Duminy and Charl Langeveldt but the loss of Graeme Smith with injury will impact on their chances.<\/p>\n

Deccan Chargers<\/strong> (India)
\nThe IPL champions will be the tournament favourites with home advantage and four overseas players to call upon. Adam Gilchrist still has plenty to offer in Twenty20 cricket while for Andrew Symonds this is now his main mode of employment. <\/p>\n

Delhi Daredevils <\/strong>(India)
\nVirender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir make up the world\u2019s best opening partnership at the moment and Dirk Nannes, the Australian fast bowler, has emerged as an unlikely star in Twenty20 cricket. Glenn McGrath was on Tuesday confirmed as Paul Collingwood\u2019s replacement. Look out for Owais Shah too.<\/p>\n

Diamond Eagles<\/strong> (South Africa)
\nThe weaker of the two South African franchises and Sussex will look to beat them to advance to the second round. Short on big names but have won three domestic trophies over the past four years.<\/p>\n

New South Wales Blues<\/strong> (Australia)
\nSeven members of their squad played a part during the recent Australia tour to England and outside of the Indian sides they are the next strongest team. Phillip Hughes certainly has something to prove and Brett Lee relishes playing in India.<\/p>\n

Otago Volts <\/strong>(New Zealand)
\nOutsiders but with Brendon McCullum and England\u2019s Dimitri Mascarenhas they have plenty of Twenty20 experience and skill. Hamish Rutherford, son of former New Zealand captain Ken, is a young player who could emerge during this tournament.<\/p>\n

Royal Challengers Bangalore<\/strong> (India)
\nNo Kevin Pietersen but they probably don\u2019t mind that \u2014 after his departure during this year\u2019s IPL the team improved under Anil Kumble and reached the final. Jacques Kallis has turned himself into a good Twenty20 bowler while Ross Taylor and Mark Boucher provide strength in the middle overs.<\/p>\n

Somerset <\/strong>(England)
\nBeaten Twenty20 Cup finalists, but thanks to the experience of Justin Langer and Marcus Trescothick, they probably have a better of chance of progression than Sussex. Peter Trego is one of the best Twenty20 players on the county circuit and James Hildreth and Craig Kieswetter have England credentials to prove.<\/p>\n

Sussex<\/strong> (England)
\nThe loss of Matt Prior (rested) and Murray Goodwin (ineligible) have hurt them deeply and left much resting on the powerful hitting of Luke Wright. Indian leg-spinner Piyush Chawla will be a key figure and Dwayne Smith is capable of match-winning contributions.<\/p>\n

Trinidad & Tobago <\/strong>(West Indies)
\nAt first glance the weakest of the teams but were too good for Middlesex at last year\u2019s Stanford Challenge and the Bravo brothers, Dwayne and Darren, are capable performers. Left-arm leg spinner Dave Mohammed has a good Twenty20 record and captain Daren Ganga is probably the best skipper in West Indies cricket.<\/p>\n

Victorian Bushrangers <\/strong>(Australia)
\nEngland know all about Cameron White\u2019s ability with the bat while David Hussey and Brad Hodge are two of Twenty20 cricket\u2019s better batsmen. The bowling is light and will be carried by Peter Siddle and Bryce McGain, a 37-year-old spinner mauled by the South Africans on his Test debut.<\/p>\n

Wayamba Elevens<\/strong> (Sri Lanka)
\nA very strong side. Hammered Sussex in a warm-up match earlier this week and have a healthy smattering of Sri Lankan internationals including Mahela Jayawardene and Ajantha Mendis, while there is plenty of talk about young batting prospect Mahela Udawatte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read a full guide to all the cricket teams taking part in the Airtel Champions League Twenty20 in India, including Sussex and Somerset. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[32,892,36,39,41,45,46,51,73,74,880,101,797,891,130,765,161,175,176,879,754,220,223,237,296,390,490,553,882,800,899,878,623,643,875,902,677,802,876,693,798,877,702,751,901,712,900,726],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/puWvs-aE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}