Champions League Twenty20 2010

The Champions League Twenty20 2010 was an international Twenty20 cricket competition between clubs from India , Australia , South Africa , Sri Lanka , New Zealand and the West Indies . It was the second edition of the competition and took place between September 10 and 26, 2010 in South Africa. In the final, the Warriors from South Africa lost to the Chennai Super Kings from India with eight wickets.

qualification

The participating teams had qualified through their national Twenty20 championships, India provided three participants, Australia and South Africa two each, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and the West Indies one each. England, which had participated the year before , did not send any teams to the Champions League in this edition, as the date collided with the domestic championships.

team	country	league
Chennai Super Kings	India	Indian Premier League 2010
Mumbai Indians	India	Indian Premier League 2010
Royal Challengers Bangalore	India	Indian Premier League 2010
Warriors	South Africa	Standard Bank Pro20 2010
Highveld Lions	South Africa	Standard Bank Pro20 2010
Victorian Bushrangers	Australia	Twenty20 Big Bash 2009/10
Southern Redbacks	Australia	Twenty20 Big Bash 2009/10
Central Districts Stags	New Zealand	HRV Twenty20 2009/10
Wayamba Elevens	Sri Lanka	Inter-Provincial Twenty20 2010
Guyana	West Indies	Caribbean Twenty20 2010

Venues

Durban Centurion Johannesburg Port Elizabeth

The venue in South Africa was the 2010 Champions League Twenty20

The following four stadiums in South Africa were chosen as the venue:

city	country	Stadion	capacity
Centurion	South Africa	SuperSport Park	20,000
Durban	South Africa	Sahara Stadium Kingsmead	25,000
Johannesburg	South Africa	Wanderers Stadium	34,000
Port Elizabeth	South Africa	St George's Park	19,000

Preliminary round

The preliminary round took place from September 10-22, 2010. The teams were divided into two groups of five teams each. The best two teams in each group qualified for the semi-finals.

Group A

table

Group A	Sp.	S.	N	NO	P	RR
Chennai Super Kings	4th	3	1	0	6th	+2,050
Warriors	4th	3	1	0	6th	+0.588
Victoria Bushrangers	4th	3	1	0	6th	+0.366
Wayamba Elevens	4th	1	3	0	2	−1,126
Central Districts Stags	4th	0	4th	0	0	−1,844

Games

September 11	Port Elizabeth	Wayamba Elevens 153-9 (20)	-	Warriors 156-3 (18.3)
		Warriors wins with 7 wickets

September 11	Durban	Chennai Super Kings 151-4 (20)	-	Central Districts Stags 94 (18.1)
		Chennai Super Kings wins with 57 runs

13.september	Port Elizabeth	Warriors 158-6 (20)	-	Victoria Bushrangers 130-9 (20)
		Warriors wins with 28 runs

September 15th	Centurion	Central Districts Stags 165-5 (20)	-	Victoria Bushrangers 166-3 (19.4)
		Victorian Bushrangers wins with 7 wickets

September 15th	Centurion	Chennai Super Kings 200-3 (20)	-	Wayamba Elevens 103 (17.1)
		Chennai Super Kings wins with 97 runs

September 18	Port Elizabeth	Central Districts Stags 175-3 (20)	-	Warriors 181-4 (19.1)
		Warriors wins with 6 wickets

September 18	Centurion	Chennai Super Kings 162-6 (20) / 13-0 (1)	-	Victoria Bushrangers 162 (20) / 23-0 (1)
		Victorian Bushrangers wins the Super Over

September 20th	Centurion	Wayamba Elevens 106 (16.3)	-	Victoria Bushrangers 108-2 (13.2)
		Victorian Bushrangers wins with 8 wickets

September 22	Port Elizabeth	Wayamba Elevens 144-6 (20)	-	Central Districts Stags 70 (15.3)
		Wayamba Elevens wins with 74 runs

September 22	Port Elizabeth	Chennai Super Kings 136-6 (20)	-	Warriors 126-8 (20)
		Chennai Super Kings wins by 10 runs

Group B

table

Group B	Sp.	S.	N	NO	P	RR
Southern Redbacks	4th	4th	0	0	8th	+0.590
Royal Chall. Bangalore	4th	2	2	0	4th	+0.759
Highveld Lions	4th	2	2	0	4th	+0.401
Mumbai Indians	4th	2	2	0	4th	+0.221
Guyana	4th	0	4th	0	0	−2.083

Games

September 10	Johannesburg	Highveld Lions 186-5 (20)	-	Mumbai Indians 177-6 (20)
		Highveld Lions wins with 9 runs

12th September	Centurion	Southern Redbacks 178-6 (20)	-	Highveld Lions 167-8 (20)
		Southern Redbacks wins with 11 runs

12th September	Centurion	Guyana 103 (20)	-	Royal Chall. Bangalore 106-1 (12.2)
		Royal Challengers Bangalore wins with 9 wickets

September 14th	Durban	Mumbai Indians 180-7 (20)	-	Southern Redbacks 182-5 (3/19)
		Southern Redbacks wins with 5 wickets

16th September	Durban	Mumbai Indians 184-4 (20)	-	Guyana 153-6 (20)
		Mumbai Indians wins with 31 runs

17th of September	Durban	Royal Chall. Bangalore 154 (19.5)	-	Southern Redbacks 155-2 (3/18)
		Southern Redbacks wins with 8 wickets

September 19th	Johannesburg	Guyana 148-9 (20)	-	Highveld Lions 149-1 (15.1)
		Highveld Lions wins with 9 wickets

September 19th	Durban	Mumbai Indians 165-7 (20)	-	Royal Chall. Bangalore 163-5 (20)
		Mumbai Indians wins with 2 runs

21st September	Johannesburg	Southern Redbacks 191-6 (20)	-	Guyana 176-7 (20)
		Southern Redbacks wins with 15 runs

21st September	Johannesburg	Highveld Lions 159-6 (20)	-	Royal Chall. Bangalore 160-4 (19)
		Royal Challengers Bangalore wins with 6 wickets

Semifinals

September 24th	Durban	Chennai Super Kings 174-4 (17/17)	-	Royal Chall. Bangalore 123-9 (16.3 / 17)
		Chennai Super Kings wins with 52 runs ( D / L-Method )

25th of September	Centurion	Warriors 175-6 (20)	-	Southern Redbacks 145-7 (20)
		Warriors wins by 30 runs

final

September 26th	Johannesburg	Warriors 128-6 (20)	-	Chennai Super Kings 132-2 (19)
		Chennai Super Kings wins with 8 wickets

supporting documents

1. ↑ http://www.cricinfo.com/t20champions2010/content/story/460432.html
2. ↑ ^{a b} Explanation of the abbreviations: Col. = games; S = victories; N = defeats; U = tie; NR = No Result; P = points; RR = run rate

Web links

• Champions League Twenty20 website