SOUTH Africa will host this year’s Champions League Twenty20 in October.
Fourteen (14) teams from eight countries, including the winners of England’s FriendsLife t20 competition and, for the first time, Pakistan’s T20 champions, will play in the tournament from October 9 to 28. The teams involved will be Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Daredevils and Mumbai Indians from India, Titans and Highveld Lions from South Africa, Sydney Sixers and Perth Scorchers from Australia, Trinidad and Tobago from West Indies, Auckland Aces from New Zealand, Sialkot Stallions from Pakistan as well as a team each from England and Sri Lanka.
The matches will be played in Centurion, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg and it will be the second time South Africa has hosted the tournament after staging it in 2010, with the 2009 and 2011 editions taking place in India.