Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
Professional Twenty20 League Teams
Indian Cricket League - ICL
Delhi Giants
Delhi Giants (formerly Delhi Jets until the 2008 Edelweiss 20's Challenge) is one of the nine teams competing in the Indian Cricket League (ICL). This team represents the Indian capital city, New Delhi, India and its captain is Marvan Atapattu, former skipper of Sri Lanka.
Delhi Giants Team
Marvan Atapattu (Sri Lanka), Niall O'Brien (Ireland), Mohnish Mishra (Madhya Pradesh), Taufeeq Umar (Pakistan), Abbas Ali (Madhya Pradesh), Paul Nixon (England), Dale Benkenstein (South Africa), J.P. Yadav (Railways), Ali Murtaza (Uttar Pradesh), T. Sudhindra (Madhya Pradesh), Abid Nabi Ahanger (Jammu and Kashmir), Sachin Dholpure (Madhya Pradesh), Abhishek Tamrakar (Madhya Pradesh), Shalabh Srivastav (Uttar Pradesh), Abhishek Sharma (Delhi), Dishant Yagnik (Udaipur), Dhruv Mahajan (Jammu and Kashmir), Abhinav Bali, Raghav Sachdev, Shane Bond (New Zealand)
Previous performance
2007 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship: 3rd place
2008 Indian Cricket League 50s: Winners
2008 Indian Cricket League Edelweiss 20s Challenge: 5th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Domestic Tournament: 4th place
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
