GRRRRRRRR!!!! Oops Its Crocodile





Former Zimbabwean cricketerGuy Whittall, spent the night at a lodge without being aware of a 150kg crocodile lurking beneath his bed.
The crocodile sneaked into the Humani lodge, Zimbabwe, and spent the entire night lying quietly, below Whittall.
The following morning, Whittall even perched on the edge of his bed - unaware that the 150kg crocodile was lying just centimetres away from his dangling feet, the Daily Star reported.
The 40-year-old former all-rounder came to know about this only after he heard the petrified screams of a housemaid while he was enjoying his breakfast in the kitchen.
Whittall, a director at Humani, ran back to his room and was stunned to find the enormous crocodile nestled under his bed. (ANI)

Zimbabwe: 40-year-old man finds 8-ft crocodile hiding under his bed

The crocodile came from the Turgwe River which is a couple of kilometres from the house. Guy's co-workers helped remove the crocodile from under the bed and release it back into Humani's Chigwidi dam. "Of course he resisted being roped and hauled out from under the bed, that's only natural," Guy said. 

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Otago Brush Asides Wolves


Brendon McCullum essayed a captain’s innings to help Otago Volts beat Faisalabad Wolves by eight wickets in the first qualifying games of the Champions League T20 (CLT20), 2013. It was a captain’s day as Misbah-ul-Haq’s knock of 46 had helped Faisalabad recover from an iffy position and took them to 139 for eight in their 20 overs. Otago chased the target with 13 balls to spare.


Chasing 140, Otago got off to a tough start when Neil Broom inside-edged one from Samiullah Khan onto his pads and it carried to first-slip. Brendon McCullum then took control of things with Hamish Rutherford. The latter looked in great touch as he belted two sixes effortlessly and was in control of proceedings.
Watching McCullum and Rutherford in command, Misbah summoned his main weapon, Saeed Ajmal. The off-spinner started with a wide, but had Rutherford immediately as the batsman tried to loft him over the leg-side. The fielder in the deep, Asif Ali, took a good catch diving forward.

Faisalabad then pulled things back and there were a few quiet overs that put pressure on the Otago batsmen. However, McCullum broke the shackles when Ehsan Adil came to bowl the 12th over. Derek de Boorder hit a six and a four and get his innings going as Otago milked 17. In the next over, McCullum was dropped at long-off as Asad Ali misjudged it and fumbled. McCullum got to his 50 at a run a ball and it was a responsible innings on the day.

Earlier Misbah-ul-Haq's 46 off 34 deliveries powered Wolves to 139 which was respectable considering the sedate start by the Pakistan franchise. McCullum's blitz was too hot to handle for Wolves who now need to win their remaining games in order to qualify for the next stage of the competition.

Moreover Ryan Ten Doeschate will be joining otago which will be big boost for team

Brief scores:

Faisalabad Wolves 139 for 8 in 20 overs (Misbah-ul-Haq 46; Ian Butler 2 for 23, James McMillan 2 for 24, James Neesham 2 for 27) lost to Otago Volts 142 for 2 in 17.5 overs (Brendon McCullum 83*) by 8 wickets.

Man of the match: Brendon McCullum

Shikar Dhawan IS The Key : K Srikkanth




Champions League T20 Shikhar Dhawan the key in every sense to says Kris Srikkanth






Srikkanth , the former India captain who is now the principal mentor in Hyderabad , said it was the dream of every cricketer to continue to lead his side. ” As a player , you want to make and then move slowly through the ranks and become the captain. For any player, it’s the same thing ,” said Srikkanth . “When you’re a captain of a prestigious team at a prestigious tournament, it motivates the individual more.
“The move to the captain Shikhar was a management decision taken by all of us together. We look forward to him being the leader for us in the future also for the future of Sunrisers , “said Srikkanth . ” This is how we build the team too. Next year ‘s sales to major auction , we will build a new team. If we have a captain Shikhar , which will help us a lot in training and building a side around him and other leading cricketers . “
Dhawan naming “the key in every sense ,” Srikkanth continued: “He was batting brilliantly. After the IPL , he won the Champions Trophy for us ( India). It is also full of great trust, just like the rest of the. team the responsibility of captaincy will motivate them to do even better Shikhar is obviously key in every sense – . . As captain, as a leader, as opening batsman , he will lead from the front, and is confident the head forward. it is the same land where Shikhar made ​​his Test debut and made this huge total of 180 and more, so it has very fond memories of this particular pattern. also , this is where Amit Mishra made ​​his debut against Australia , so there is a feeling of well -being from this direction within the team. “
In their first game Tuesday night, Hyderabad will Kandurata Maroons , the Sri Lankan team that includes Kumar Sangakkara was named captain Hyderabad in IPL VI. “Two of our boys will be in teams of opposition here ,” said Srikkanth . ” Sanga play for the Sri Lankan team and Nathan McCullum for Otago . I think it is the choice of the individual, who play for . Sanga is a great cricket player , and it worked very well for Sri Lanka in the Champions Trophy . Yes, we need to work on tactics, but we can not reveal these strategies. I’m sure he will also know some of our stuff. It’s a funny situation, but both of us will face . “
Despite the advantage of playing on home turf , Srikkanth said his team was strengthened to a tough challenge as he chased one of the two qualifying places . “Every game is very, very important. We do not take any game lightly. Return to JP Duminy is of great importance because it has been in fantastic form . , It was out of fight, but it is now not only return to action, but back in shape too. strengthens our batting order, and small off- spinners are also a very good addition.
“We play the Sri Lankan team tomorrow. They are a good team, and they also have international cricketers . As I said, we can not take any team lightly. We have a very good combination and we are very happy with what we have. Overall, it’s a fantastic feeling in the first year of Hyderabad Sunrisers be in the Champions League . This is a great success , and we want to continue . we have a long way to go. “
Hyderabad relied heavily on the bowlers to do the job IPL VI , but Srikkanth should most significant contributions of the group to stick this time . ” The bowlers did a great job for us in the IPL . But now , with the addition of JP Duminy ( who missed the IPL due to injury ), which is a cricketer very responsible and reliable and can anchor the team for us in the middle order , and Shikhar also in form, it will help us. we are very confident that our staff will click , and if the combinations start clicking , we’re a great force to reckon with .

Zimbabwe Shocks Pakistan







Zimbabwe beat Pakistan in a thriller by 24 runs in the second Test match at Harare to cap a memorable game and week for them. With the win, Zimbabwe also levelled the 2-match series at 1-1.

Needing 106 to win on the final day, Pakistan resumed at 158/5. They eventually capitulated for 239 as last batsman Rahat Ali was run-out for 1. Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq remained not out on 79.

Zimbabwe dismissed three Pakistan batsmen in the first session, with Adnan Akmal, Abdur Rehman out and Saeed Ajmal falling for 2 just before lunch. After lunch, Junaid Khan was done in by a seering delivery from Tendai Chatara before Misbah opened up.

Zimbabwe's attack was led by seamer Chatara, who had 5-61 and three of the five wickets on Saturday to give the home team its first win over a top test team for over a decade.

Zimbabwe have won only 11 Test matches of the 94 they have played, with the latest, this historic one against a much stronger and touted Pakistan side.

This is Zimbabwe's third Test win over Pakistan. In fact they have come a full circle having garnered their first ever Test win - by an innings and 64 runs - against this very opposition in 1994-95 season.

Zimbabwe have since then beaten Pakistan at Peshawar in 1998. They have twice gone on to beat India too, on this very ground in Harare while all their other Test wins - six - have come against Bangladesh - 4 of them at Harare.

In all, Zimbabwe have won eight out of 11 Tests at Harare now.

Clt20 2013 Details




The final squads for the Karbonn Smart Champions League Twenty20 2013, to be played in India from 17 September to 6 October, have been announced.

A dozen of the world’s best Twenty20 cricketers were in high demand after being named by more than one squad.

Explaining the process for deciding which teams these players would represent, CLT20 Governing Council member and Director of Legal and Business Affairs, Dean Kino, said:

“Players who were named by more than one team were asked to select which team they were going to play for. Teams were then allowed to replace any player that withdrew from their squad and elected to play for another side.

“CLT20 regulations state that when a player elects to play for their ‘away’ team, that team must pay the ‘home’ team $150,000 compensation per player. A ‘home’ team is classified as a team from the country a player is eligible to represent in international cricket.

“This payment is applicable for 10 of the 12 players that were eligible for more than one team. The exceptions are Kumar Sangakkara, who will be representing Kandurata Maroons, which is classified as his home team, and Thisara Perera, who qualified for the Brisbane Heat and Hyderabad Sunrisers, neither of which is classified as his home team.”

The players and their teams they have chosen to represent in bold below:

· 
Dwayne Bravo - Trinidad & Tobago/Chennai Super Kings*

·
 Kevon Cooper – Trinidad & Tobago/Rajasthan Royals*

· 
Nathan Coulter-Nile – Perth Scorchers/Mumbai Indians*

· 
Faf du Plesses – Titans/Chennai Super Kings*

· 
Mike Hussey – Perth Scorchers/Chennai Super Kings*

· 
Mitchell Johnson – Brisbane Heat/Mumbai Indians*

· 
Albie Morkel – Titans/Chennai Super Kings*

· 
Chris Morris – Highveld Lions/Chennai Super Kings*

· 
Thisara Perera – Brisbane Heat/Sunrisers Hyderabad*

· 
Kieron Pollard – Trinidad & Tobago/Mumbai Indians*

· 
Kumar Sangakkara – Sunrisers Hyderabad / Kandurata Maroons*

· 
Shane Watson – Brisbane Heat/Rajasthan Royals*
Brisbane Heat
Chennai Super Kings
Joe Burns
MS Dhoni
Dan Christian
Suresh Raina
Ben Cutting
Murali Vijay
Peter Forrest
Wriddhiman Saha
Dominic Michael
R Ashwin
Chris Hartley
S Badrinath
Nathan Hauritz
Imtiyaz Ahmad
James Hopes
Ravindra Jadeja
Matthew Gale
Mohit Sharma
Chris Lynn
Michael Hussey
Alister McDermott
Dwayne Bravo
Cameron Gannon
Albie Morkel
Brad Ipson
Jason Holder
Kemar Roach
Francois Du Plessis
Chris Sabburg
Chris Morris


Faisalabad Wolves
Highveld Lions
Misbah-ul-Haq
Temba Bavuma
Asif Ali
Gulam Bodi
Ali Waqas
Quinton De Kock
Khuram Shahzad
Neil McKenzie
Muhammad Salman
Lonwabo Tsotsobe
Waqas Maqsood
Ethan O'Reilly
Sami Ullah Kham Niazi
Hardus Viljoen
Asad Ali
Rassie VC Dussen
Saeed Ajmal
Alviro Petersen
Ehsan Adil
Aaron Phangiso
Hassan Mahmood
Dwaine Pretorius
Rana Jahandad Khan
Jean Symes
Farrukh Shahzad
Imran Tahir
Imran Khalid
Sohail Tanveer
Ammar Mahmood Khan
Thami Tsolekile


Mumbai Indians
Otago Volts
Rohit Sharma
Nicholas Beard
Sachin Tendulkar
Michael Bracewell
Dinesh Karthik
Neil Broom
Harbhajan Singh
Iain Butler
Pragyan Ojha
Mark Craig
Ambati Rayudu
Derek de Boorder
Aditya Tare
Jacob Duffy
Rishi Dhawan
Brendon McCullum
Abu Nechim Ahmed
Nathan McCullum
Akshar Patel
James McMillan
Kieron Pollard
James Neesham
Dwayne Smith
Aaron Redmond
Nathan Coulter-Nile
Hamish Rutherford
Mitchell Johnson
Ryan ten Doeschate
Glen Maxwell
Neil Wagner


Perth Scorchers
Rajasthan Royals
Ashton Agar
Rahul Dravid
Michael Beer
Ajinkya Rahane
Jason Behrendorff
Stuart Binny
Ashton Turner
Sanju Samson
Liam Davis
Ashok Menaria
Brad Hogg
Dishant Yagnik
Burt Cockley
Vikramjeet Malik
Simon Katich
Rahul Shukla
Hilton Cartwright
Pravin Tambe
Shaun Marsh
Siddharth Trivedi
Joel Paris
Shane Watson
Alfonso Thomas
Brad Hodge
Tom Triffitt
James Faulkner
Adam Voges
Kevon Cooper
Sam Whiteman
Shaun Tait


Sunrisers Hyderabad
Titans
Shikhar Dhawan
Jacques Rudolph
Parthiv Patel
Henry Davids
Cameron White
AB de Villiers
JP Duminy
Farhaan Behardien
Dale Steyn
Heino Kuhn
Darren Sammy
David Wiese
Biplab Samantray
Eden Links
Thisara Perera
Ethy Mbhalati
Karn Sharma
Rowan Richards
Hunaman Vihari
Mangaliso Mosehle
Ashish Reddy
CJ de Villiers
Amit Mishra
Graeme van Buuren.
Ishant Sharma
Morne Morkel
Anand Rajan
Roelof van der Merwe
Clint McKay
Marchant de Lange


Trinidad & Tobago
Kandurata Maroons
Denesh Ramdin
Lahiru Thirimanne
Rayad Emrit
Nuwan Kulasekara
Jason Mohammed
Upul Tharanga
Nicholas Pooran
Thilina Kandambhy
Sunil Narine
Kumar Sangakkara 
Evin Lewis
Shehan Jayasuriya
Samuel Badree
Chamara Silva
Navin Stewart
Milinda Siriwardana
Shannon Gabriel
Dilhara Lokuhettige
Khesan Yannick Ottley
Dhammika Prasad
Adrian Barath
Ajantha Mendis
Sherwin Ganga
Kaushal Lokuarachchi
Lendl Simmons
Lahiru Jayaratne
Ravindarnath Rampaul
Dhananjaya De Silva
Darren Bravo
Suraj Randiv

The Karbonn Smart CLT20 2013 will follow a format similar to the two previous editions, with a Group Stage preceded by a Qualifier. A total of 29 matches will be played in the tournament by the best domestic T20 teams from around the world, for total prize money of US$6million.

The Qualifier, to be played from 17 September 2013 to 20 September 2013, will feature four teams: Q1 - Otago Volts (New Zealand’s HRV Cup champions), Q2 – Sunrisers Hyderabad (Fourth-ranked team in the Pepsi IPL 2013), Q3 - Kandurata Maroons, the winner of Sri Lanka’s domestic T20 competition, and Q4 - Faisalabad Wolves (Pakistan’s domestic T20 Champions).

The teams will play each other once, with the top two advancing to the Group Stage. Q1 / Q3 will enter Group A, if either of them makes it to the Group Stage. Q2 / Q4 will enter Group B, if either of them makes it. If Q1 and Q3 both make it to the Group Stage, then Q1 will enter Group A, and Q3 will enter Group B. If Q2 and Q4 both make it to the Group Stage, then Q2 will enter Group B, and Q4 will enter Group A.

The Group Stage will commence with a clash between Mumbai Indians, the Pepsi IPL 2013 winners, and the Rajasthan Royals, the third-ranked team in the Pepsi IPL 2013, at Jaipur, on Saturday, 21 September 2013.

Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals apart, Group A will comprise Highveld Lions (winner of South Africa's domestic T20 competition), Perth Scorchers (KFC T20 Big Bash League runner-up), and a team from the Qualifier.

Group B will comprise Brisbane Heat (KFC T20 Big Bash League champion), Trinidad & Tobago (West Indies T20 champion), Chennai Super Kings (runner-up in the Pepsi IPL 2013), Titans (South Africa’s domestic T20 runners-up), and a team from the Qualifier.

The top team from Group A will play the second-ranked team from Group B in the first semi-final, at Jaipur on 4 October 2013. The top team from Group B will play the second-ranked team from Group A in the second semi-final, at Delhi on 5 October 2013. The winners of the semis will play in the CLT20 2013 Final on 6 October 2013.

The Media Accreditation form for the tournament is available on http://media.clt20.com. The deadline for submission of applications is 6:00 pm (IST) on Tuesday, 3 September 2013.

Karbonn Smart CLT20 2013:

Group Stage

Group A


Mumbai Indians (India)
Highveld Lions (South Africa)
Perth Scorchers (Australia)
Rajasthan Royals (India)
A team from the Qualifier

Group B

Chennai Super Kings (India)
Titans (South Africa)
Brisbane Heat (Australia)
Trinidad & Tobago (West Indies)
A team from the Qualifier

Qualifier

Q1 - Otago Volts (New Zealand)
Q2 - Sunrisers Hyderabad (India)
Q3 – Kandurata Maroons (Sri Lanka)
Q4 - Faisalabad Wolves (Pakistan)

About Champions League Twenty20

CLT20 is a sub-committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The tournament will be broadcast around the world by Star Sports, who are also the commercial rights holders for the event.

Previous Champions

2009 - NSW Blues (Australia)
2010 - Chennai Super Kings (India)
2011 - Mumbai Indians (India)
2012 - Sydney Sixers (Australia)



The final squads for the Karbonn Smart Champions League Twenty20 2013, to be played in India from 17 September to 6 October, have been announced.

A dozen of the world’s best Twenty20 cricketers were in high demand after being named by more than one squad.

Explaining the process for deciding which teams these players would represent, CLT20 Governing Council member and Director of Legal and Business Affairs, Dean Kino, said:

“Players who were named by more than one team were asked to select which team they were going to play for. Teams were then allowed to replace any player that withdrew from their squad and elected to play for another side.

“CLT20 regulations state that when a player elects to play for their ‘away’ team, that team must pay the ‘home’ team $150,000 compensation per player. A ‘home’ team is classified as a team from the country a player is eligible to represent in international cricket.

“This payment is applicable for 10 of the 12 players that were eligible for more than one team. The exceptions are Kumar Sangakkara, who will be representing Kandurata Maroons, which is classified as his home team, and Thisara Perera, who qualified for the Brisbane Heat and Hyderabad Sunrisers, neither of which is classified as his home team.”

The players and their teams they have chosen to represent in bold below:

· 
Dwayne Bravo - Trinidad & Tobago/Chennai Super Kings*

·
 Kevon Cooper – Trinidad & Tobago/Rajasthan Royals*

· 
Nathan Coulter-Nile – Perth Scorchers/Mumbai Indians*

· 
Faf du Plesses – Titans/Chennai Super Kings*

· 
Mike Hussey – Perth Scorchers/Chennai Super Kings*

· 
Mitchell Johnson – Brisbane Heat/Mumbai Indians*

· 
Albie Morkel – Titans/Chennai Super Kings*

· 
Chris Morris – Highveld Lions/Chennai Super Kings*

· 
Thisara Perera – Brisbane Heat/Sunrisers Hyderabad*

· 
Kieron Pollard – Trinidad & Tobago/Mumbai Indians*

· 
Kumar Sangakkara – Sunrisers Hyderabad / Kandurata Maroons*

· 
Shane Watson – Brisbane Heat/Rajasthan Royals*
Brisbane Heat
Chennai Super Kings
Joe Burns
MS Dhoni
Dan Christian
Suresh Raina
Ben Cutting
Murali Vijay
Peter Forrest
Wriddhiman Saha
Dominic Michael
R Ashwin
Chris Hartley
S Badrinath
Nathan Hauritz
Imtiyaz Ahmad
James Hopes
Ravindra Jadeja
Matthew Gale
Mohit Sharma
Chris Lynn
Michael Hussey
Alister McDermott
Dwayne Bravo
Cameron Gannon
Albie Morkel
Brad Ipson
Jason Holder
Kemar Roach
Francois Du Plessis
Chris Sabburg
Chris Morris


Faisalabad Wolves
Highveld Lions
Misbah-ul-Haq
Temba Bavuma
Asif Ali
Gulam Bodi
Ali Waqas
Quinton De Kock
Khuram Shahzad
Neil McKenzie
Muhammad Salman
Lonwabo Tsotsobe
Waqas Maqsood
Ethan O'Reilly
Sami Ullah Kham Niazi
Hardus Viljoen
Asad Ali
Rassie VC Dussen
Saeed Ajmal
Alviro Petersen
Ehsan Adil
Aaron Phangiso
Hassan Mahmood
Dwaine Pretorius
Rana Jahandad Khan
Jean Symes
Farrukh Shahzad
Imran Tahir
Imran Khalid
Sohail Tanveer
Ammar Mahmood Khan
Thami Tsolekile


Mumbai Indians
Otago Volts
Rohit Sharma
Nicholas Beard
Sachin Tendulkar
Michael Bracewell
Dinesh Karthik
Neil Broom
Harbhajan Singh
Iain Butler
Pragyan Ojha
Mark Craig
Ambati Rayudu
Derek de Boorder
Aditya Tare
Jacob Duffy
Rishi Dhawan
Brendon McCullum
Abu Nechim Ahmed
Nathan McCullum
Akshar Patel
James McMillan
Kieron Pollard
James Neesham
Dwayne Smith
Aaron Redmond
Nathan Coulter-Nile
Hamish Rutherford
Mitchell Johnson
Ryan ten Doeschate
Glen Maxwell
Neil Wagner


Perth Scorchers
Rajasthan Royals
Ashton Agar
Rahul Dravid
Michael Beer
Ajinkya Rahane
Jason Behrendorff
Stuart Binny
Ashton Turner
Sanju Samson
Liam Davis
Ashok Menaria
Brad Hogg
Dishant Yagnik
Burt Cockley
Vikramjeet Malik
Simon Katich
Rahul Shukla
Hilton Cartwright
Pravin Tambe
Shaun Marsh
Siddharth Trivedi
Joel Paris
Shane Watson
Alfonso Thomas
Brad Hodge
Tom Triffitt
James Faulkner
Adam Voges
Kevon Cooper
Sam Whiteman
Shaun Tait


Sunrisers Hyderabad
Titans
Shikhar Dhawan
Jacques Rudolph
Parthiv Patel
Henry Davids
Cameron White
AB de Villiers
JP Duminy
Farhaan Behardien
Dale Steyn
Heino Kuhn
Darren Sammy
David Wiese
Biplab Samantray
Eden Links
Thisara Perera
Ethy Mbhalati
Karn Sharma
Rowan Richards
Hunaman Vihari
Mangaliso Mosehle
Ashish Reddy
CJ de Villiers
Amit Mishra
Graeme van Buuren.
Ishant Sharma
Morne Morkel
Anand Rajan
Roelof van der Merwe
Clint McKay
Marchant de Lange


Trinidad & Tobago
Kandurata Maroons
Denesh Ramdin
Lahiru Thirimanne
Rayad Emrit
Nuwan Kulasekara
Jason Mohammed
Upul Tharanga
Nicholas Pooran
Thilina Kandambhy
Sunil Narine
Kumar Sangakkara 
Evin Lewis
Shehan Jayasuriya
Samuel Badree
Chamara Silva
Navin Stewart
Milinda Siriwardana
Shannon Gabriel
Dilhara Lokuhettige
Khesan Yannick Ottley
Dhammika Prasad
Adrian Barath
Ajantha Mendis
Sherwin Ganga
Kaushal Lokuarachchi
Lendl Simmons
Lahiru Jayaratne
Ravindarnath Rampaul
Dhananjaya De Silva
Darren Bravo
Suraj Randiv

The complete match-schedule of the tournament is available onhttp://www.clt20.com/schedule.

The Karbonn Smart CLT20 2013 will follow a format similar to the two previous editions, with a Group Stage preceded by a Qualifier. A total of 29 matches will be played in the tournament by the best domestic T20 teams from around the world, for total prize money of US$6million.

The Qualifier, to be played from 17 September 2013 to 20 September 2013, will feature four teams: Q1 - Otago Volts (New Zealand’s HRV Cup champions), Q2 – Sunrisers Hyderabad (Fourth-ranked team in the Pepsi IPL 2013), Q3 - Kandurata Maroons, the winner of Sri Lanka’s domestic T20 competition, and Q4 - Faisalabad Wolves (Pakistan’s domestic T20 Champions).

The teams will play each other once, with the top two advancing to the Group Stage. Q1 / Q3 will enter Group A, if either of them makes it to the Group Stage. Q2 / Q4 will enter Group B, if either of them makes it. If Q1 and Q3 both make it to the Group Stage, then Q1 will enter Group A, and Q3 will enter Group B. If Q2 and Q4 both make it to the Group Stage, then Q2 will enter Group B, and Q4 will enter Group A.

The Group Stage will commence with a clash between Mumbai Indians, the Pepsi IPL 2013 winners, and the Rajasthan Royals, the third-ranked team in the Pepsi IPL 2013, at Jaipur, on Saturday, 21 September 2013.

Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals apart, Group A will comprise Highveld Lions (winner of South Africa's domestic T20 competition), Perth Scorchers (KFC T20 Big Bash League runner-up), and a team from the Qualifier.

Group B will comprise Brisbane Heat (KFC T20 Big Bash League champion), Trinidad & Tobago (West Indies T20 champion), Chennai Super Kings (runner-up in the Pepsi IPL 2013), Titans (South Africa’s domestic T20 runners-up), and a team from the Qualifier.

The top team from Group A will play the second-ranked team from Group B in the first semi-final, at Jaipur on 4 October 2013. The top team from Group B will play the second-ranked team from Group A in the second semi-final, at Delhi on 5 October 2013. The winners of the semis will play in the CLT20 2013 Final on 6 October 2013.

The Media Accreditation form for the tournament is available on http://media.clt20.com. The deadline for submission of applications is 6:00 pm (IST) on Tuesday, 3 September 2013.

Karbonn Smart CLT20 2013:

Group Stage

Group A


Mumbai Indians (India)
Highveld Lions (South Africa)
Perth Scorchers (Australia)
Rajasthan Royals (India)
A team from the Qualifier

Group B

Chennai Super Kings (India)
Titans (South Africa)
Brisbane Heat (Australia)
Trinidad & Tobago (West Indies)
A team from the Qualifier

Qualifier

Q1 - Otago Volts (New Zealand)
Q2 - Sunrisers Hyderabad (India)
Q3 – Kandurata Maroons (Sri Lanka)
Q4 - Faisalabad Wolves (Pakistan)

About Champions League Twenty20

CLT20 is a sub-committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The tournament will be broadcast around the world by Star Sports, who are also the commercial rights holders for the event.

Previous Champions

2009 - NSW Blues (Australia)
2010 - Chennai Super Kings (India)
2011 - Mumbai Indians (India)
2012 - Sydney Sixers (Australia)