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South Africa set for explosive battle after confirmation of CLT20 squads

Record number of teams will look to break IPL’s two-year winning streak and claim richest prize in world cricket

The Karbonn Smart Champions League Twenty20 2012 is set to be an explosive tournament after confirmation of each team’s final squad.

Team line-ups are again brimming with the world’s elite T20 talent as the champion domestic teams from a record eight countries chase the US$2.5m first prize from a total pool (including participation fees) of US$13m.

Mr. N. Srinivasan, Chairman, CLT20 Governing Council, said:

“The fourth edition of the Champions League Twenty20 is only a few weeks away. The squads that will be playing in the tournament speak for themselves. They comprise the finest cricketing talent on this planet.

“We are in for some extraordinary cricket, in what will surely be a thriller of a competition.”

Mr Dean Kino, CLT20 Governing Council Member and Director of Legal and Business Affairs, said:

“Last year’s tournament showed the fine line between making the finals and early elimination. Given the high stakes and small margin for error in the Qualifier and Group Stage, some of world cricket’s biggest names who are eligible for more than one team have been in high demand.

“According to CLT20 rules, if a player qualifies for more than one team, all those qualifying teams can nominate that player. When a player decides to play for an ‘away’ team rather than his ‘home’ team, the team from the country he is eligible to represent in international cricket, the ‘away’ team must pay US$150,000 compensation to the ‘home’ team.”

Kieron Pollard, Mike Hussey, the Morkel brothers and Sunil Narine, were among the nine players named initially by more than one squad which required each player to nominate the team they would play for. All players listed below have chosen to play for their ‘away’ team.

Players nominated by more than one team:

•    Dwayne Bravo – Trinidad & Tobago* / Chennai Super Kings
•    Francois du Plessis – Titans* / Chennai Super Kings
•    Sunil Narine - Trinidad & Tobago* / Kolkata Knight Riders
•    Mike Hussey – Perth Scorchers* / Chennai Super Kings
•    Mitch Johnson – Perth Scorchers* / Mumbai Indians
•    Brett Lee – Sydney Sixers* / Kolkata Knight Riders
•    AlbieMorkel – Titans* / Chennai Super Kings
•    MorneMorkel – Titans* / Delhi Daredevils
•    Kieron Pollard - Trinidad & Tobago* / Mumbai Indians
Note: *designates ‘home’ team

The 2012 Karbonn Champions League Twenty20 will feature a record 14 champion teams from India (4), Australia (2), South Africa (2), England (2), New Zealand (1), Sri Lanka (1), West Indies (1) and Pakistan (1) for the first time. Eight teams have automatically qualified for the Group Stage while the remaining six teams will compete for the remaining two places via a Qualifier. 

The Qualifier will start on 9 October before the Group Stage starts on 13 October.  The Final will be played on Sunday 23 October in Johannesburg. The full match schedule is available from CLT20.com.

Last year’s Champion Mumbai Indians and 2010 Champion Chennai Super Kings headline the returning teams.  Both teams will be playing in their third CLT20 tournament along with Trinidad & Tobago, the 2009 CLT20 Finalist. Of the other teams, Highveld Lions, Auckland Aces, Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders are making return visits.

Six teams will be making their first appearance in the tournament – England’s Hampshire and Yorkshire, South Africa’s Titans, Pakistan’s Sialkot Stallions and Australia’s two new Big Bash League Twenty20 teams, the Sydney Sixers and Perth Scorchers.

CLT20 commercial rights holder ESPN Star Sports and its broadcast partners will again beam the action live around the world as a record number of teams battle to claim the world’s most prestigious prize in domestic cricket.

South Africa set for explosive battle after confirmation of CLT20 squads

Auckland Aces	Chennai Super Kings	Delhi Daredevils	Hampshire
Andre Adams	R Ashwin	Aavishkar Salvi	James Adams
Michael Bates	S Badrinath	AjitAgarkar	Shahid Afridi
Brad Cachopa	Doug Bollinger	Unmukt Chand	Kabir Ali
Colin de Grandhomme	Dwayne Bravo	Mahela Jayawardene (c)	Michael Bates
Martin Guptill	MS Dhoni (c)	Morne Morkel	David Balcombe
Ronnie Hira	Faf Du Plessis	Pawan Negi	Michael Carberry
Gareth Hopkins (c)	Ben Hilfenhaus	Naman Ojha	Liam Dawson
Anaru Kitchen	Michael Hussey	Irfan Pathan	Sean Ervine
Mitchell McClenaghan	Ravindra Jadeja	Kevin Pietersen	David Griffiths
Azhar Mahmood	Albie Morkel	Venugopal Rao	Dimitri Mascarenhas
Bruce Martin	Suresh Raina	Andre Russell	Glenn Maxwell
Chris Martin	Wriddhiman Saha	Virender Sehwag	Hamza Riazuddin
Kyle Mills	Anirudh Srikkanth	Ross Taylor	Bilal Shafayat
Colin Munro	Murali Vijay	David Warner	James Vince
Lou Vincent	V. Yomahesh	Umesh Yadav	Christopher Wood
Highveld Lions	Kolkata Knight Riders	Mumbai Indians	Perth Scorchers
Temba Bavuma	Iqbal Abdullah	Mitchell Johnson	Tom Beaton
GulamBodi	Shakib Al Hasan	Dinesh Karthik	Michael Beer
Zander de Bruyn	L Balaji	Dhawal Kulkarni	Paul Collingwood
Quinton de Kock	Rajat Bhatia	Richard Levi	Nathan Coulter-Nile
Neil McKenzie	Manvinder Bisla	Lasith Malinga	Ryan Duffield
Pumelela Matshikwe	Gautam Gambhir (c)	Pragyan Ojha	Ben Edmondson
Chris Morris	Jacques Kallis	Munaf Patel	Herschelle Gibbs
Dirk Nannes	Brett Lee	ThisaraPerera	Brad Hogg
Ethan O'Reilly	Brendon McCullum	Kieron Pollard	Simon Katich
Alviro Petersen	Sunil Narine	Ambati Rayudu	Mitchell Marsh
Aaron Phangiso	Yusuf Pathan	Rohit Sharma	Shaun Marsh
Dwaine Pretorius	LaxmiRatan Shukla	Harbhajan Singh	Joe Mennie
Jean Symes	Mohammed Shami	Dwayne Smith	Marcus North
Sohail Tanveer	Ryan Ten Doeschate	Sachin Tendulkar	Nathan Rimmington
Thami Tsolekile	Manoj Tiwary	Surya Kumar Yadav	Luke Ronchi
Sialkot Stallions	Sydney Sixers	Titans	Trinidad & Tobago
Qaisar Abbas	Pat Cummins	Farhaan Behardien	Samuel Badree
Sarfraz Ahmad	Brad Haddin (c)	Henry Davids	Adrian Barath
ShakeelAnsar	Josh Hazlewood	CJ de Villiers	Darren Bravo
Umaid Asif	Moises Henriques	AB de Villiers	Kevon Cooper
Muhammad Ayub	Michael Lumb	Paul Harris	Rayad Emrit
Bilawal Bhatti	Nathan McCullum	Heino Kuhn	Shannon Gabriel
Raza Hasan	Nic Maddinson	Eden Links	Sherwin Ganga
Ali Khan	Ian Moran	Ethy Mbhalati	Evin Lewis
Shoaib Malik (c)	Peter Nevill	Mangaliso Mosehle	Jason Mohammed
Imran Nazir	Stephen O'Keefe	Rowan Richards	Yannic kOttley
Faisal Naveed	Ben Rohrer	Jacques Rudolph	William Perkins
Rana Naveed	Steven Smith	Alfonso Thomas	Denesh Ramdin (c)
Abdur Rehman	Mitchell Starc	Roelof van der Merwe	Ravi Rampaul
Haris Sohail	Dominic Thornely	Martin van Jaarsveld (c)	Lendl Simmons
Shahid Yousaf	Shane Watson	David Wiese	Navin Stewart
Uva Next	Yorkshire
Fawwad Alam	Moin Ashraf
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Edward Wilson
Dilhara Fernando	Gary Ballance
Umar Gul	Andrew Gale
Charith Jayampathi	Oliver Hannon-Daly
Chintaka Jayasinghe	Dan Hodgson
Thilina Kandamby (c)	Phil Jaques
Andrew McDonald	Adam Lyth
Dilshan Munaweera	David Miller
Jacob Oram	Steve Patterson
Seekuge Prasanna	Azeem Rafiq
Bhanuka Rajapakse	Adil Rashid
Sachitra Senanayake	Joe Root
Upul Tharanga	Ryan Sidebottom
Sameera Zoysa	Iain Wardlaw