Champions League T20

T20 Champions League teams

RAJASTHAN ROYALS: The Royals lost just three of their 14 games on the way to winning the inaugural Indian Premier League crown. Coach Shane Warne could end up leading them against his home state Victoria in the Champions League.
Star player: Yusuf Pathan - Contributed with both bat and ball in Rajasthan’s triumph, hitting four half-centuries and claiming eight wickets, and taking the man-of-the-match award in the final.

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CHENNAI SUPER KINGS: The Super Kings needed fewer than 15 overs to brush aside the Delhi Daredevils in the semi-finals before losing the IPL final on the final ball.
Star player: Mahendra Singh Dhoni - The IPL’s most expensive player averaged over 40 with the bat and took six catches behind the stumps as his team made it to the final.

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VICTORIA BUSHRANGERS: The Bushrangers have dominated Twenty20 cricket in Australia winning all three of the domestic tournaments to have been held. During that time they have lost just once, against Western Australia last season, however they earned revenge for that defeat in the final when they defeated the Warriors by 32 runs.
Star player: Brad Hodge - The 33-year-old right-hander is the highest run scorer in the short history of Twenty20 cricket Down Under having scored 476 runs for Victoria.

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA WARRIORS: The vast array of batting talent in the Western Australian team endears them to the batsman-friendly version of the game with Shaun Marsh and Luke Pomersbach finishing inside the top-three run scorers in last season’s Twenty20 competition.
Star player: Shaun Marsh - The left-hander has topped the runscorers’ list in both the Australian Twenty20 competition and the Indian Premier League in the past six months.

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PRETORIA TITANS: The Pretoria-based side claimed the Pro-20 Series title and the MTN Championship - the premier domestic one-day cricket competition of South Africa - in 2008.
Star player: Dale Steyn - The South Africa paceman had a breakthrough year on the Test scene and has also impressed at the shorter form of the game, recording career-best figures of four for nine in Twenty20 cricket.

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DOLPHINS: The Dolphins finished second in the Pro-20 Series after winning four of their six matches. The Natal-based team lost by 18 runs in the final against the Titans in April, failing to chase down a victoty target of 153 for six.
Star player: Pierre de Bruyn - The wicketkeeper-batsman was the Dolphins leading runscorer in last season’s Por-20 Series scoring 152 runs at an average of 50.6.

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MIDDLESEX: Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Middlesex. n 2008, Middlesex won the Twenty20 Cup, beating Kent in the final, and earning trips to both the Twenty20 Champions League in India and the Stanford Series in Antigua.

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SIALKOT STALLIONS: The Sialkot cricket team in Pakistan is also known as the Sialkot Stallions. Its home ground is Jinnah Stadium Sialkot. It plays in first-class domestic competitions. It was national champion in 2005-2006 and won Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Championship (Golden League) . It was runnerup in 2006-2007. Sialkot Stallions also won ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup in 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. Noted players in recent years include Imran Nazir, Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Asif.

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Source: ESPN Star/WikiPedia