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
Mumbai Champs
Mumbai Champs is one of the six teams competing in the Indian Cricket League (ICL). The team is based in Mumbai, India and its captain is former New Zealand batsman Nathan Astle.
Mumbai Champs Team
Nathan Astle (New Zealand), Robin Morris (Mumbai), Kiran Powar (Mumbai), Shreyas Khanolkar (Mumbai), Johan Van der Wath (South Africa), Avinash Yadav (Mumbai), Subhojit Paul (Kolkata), Dheeraj Jadhav (Pune), Anupam Sanklecha (Mumbai), Ranjeet Kirid (Pune), Pushkaraj Joshi (Pune), Raviraj Patil (Maharashtra), Nikhil Mandale (Mumbai), Sridher Iyer, Tino Best (West Indies), Michael Kasprowicz (Australia)
Previous performance
2007 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship: 6th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 50s: 5th place
2008 Indian Cricket League Edelweiss 20s Challenge: 6th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Domestic Tournament: 5th 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.
