International 20:20 Club Championship

International 20:20 Club Championship

Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and knockout
Host(s)	England
Champions	Faisalabad Wolves (1st title)
Participants	6
Matches played	9

The International 20:20 Club Championship was an international Twenty20 competition for club cricket teams. It was held once, hosted by Leicestershire County Cricket Club from 15 to 17 September 2005. It featured the winners of the domestic Twenty20 competitions from England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as the Leicestershire Foxes and the PCA Masters XI, a composition of current and past players of international cricket from around the world.^[1] The winners were awarded £25,000.^[2]

The competition was the first notable attempt at a competition featuring the top domestic Twenty20 teams from around the world. As Twenty20 cricket had only been introduced in 2003,^[3] the scale of the competition was limited. Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies were not represented due to their lack of a domestic Twenty20 competition. The competition had limited television coverage and three of the nine games could not proceed due to bad weather.^[4] While this competition was only held once, the creation of an international Twenty20 club tournament was executed successfully with the Champions League Twenty20 in 2009.

Teams

• Somerset Sabres (2005 Twenty20 Cup winners)
• Leicestershire Foxes (2005 Twenty20 Cup runners-up)
• Chilaw Marians (2004 Twenty20 Challenge Trophy winners)
• Faisalabad Wolves (2004–05 ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup winners)
• Titans (2004–05 Standard Bank Pro20 Series winners)
• PCA Masters XI

Squads

Leicestershire Foxes HD Ackerman (c) Paul Nixon (wk) James Allenby Stuart Broad Ottis Gibson Aftab Habib Darren Maddy David Masters John Maunders Dinesh Mongia John Sadler Jeremy Snape Charl Willoughby

Chilaw Marians Hasantha Fernando (c) Ishan Mutaliph (wk) Charith Sylvester (wk) Manoj Chanaka Kalidu Fernando Malintha Gajanayake Janaka Gunaratne Dinuka Hettiarachchi Praneth Jayasundera Arosha Perera Dammika Perera Chinthaka Perera Nimesh Perera Dinuk Sulakshana Mahela Udawatte Gayan Wijekoon Omesh Wijesiriwardene

Faisalabad Wolves Naved Latif (c) Mohammed Salman (wk) Abdul Mannan Ahmed Hayat Asif Hussain Faisal Afridi Ijaz Ahmed junior Imran Ali Imran Khalid Khurram Shehzad Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Saleem Saeed Ajmal Samiullah Khan Shahid Muzaffar Tauqeer Hussain

Titans Gerald Dros (c) Kruger van Wyk (wk) Maurice Aronstam Goolam Bodi Pierre de Bruyn Francois du Plessis Paul Harris Ethy Mbhalati Albie Morkel Morné Morkel Johannes Myburgh Alviro Petersen Aaron Phangiso Brendon Reddy Andre Seymore

PCA Masters XI Martyn Ball (c) Parthiv Patel (wk) Phil DeFreitas Rohan Gavaskar Chris Gayle Mark Hardinges Martin McCague Jon Lewis Nadeem Shahid Chris Schofield Robin Singh Craig Spearman Javagal Srinath

Somerset Sabres Ian Blackwell (c) Carl Gazzard (wk) Sam Spurway (wk) Gareth Andrew Andy Caddick Wes Durston John Francis Simon Francis James Hildreth Keith Parsons Arul Suppiah Matthew Wood Richard Woodman

Results

Group stage

Group A

Team[5]	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts
Leicestershire Foxes	2	2	0	0	4
Faisalabad Wolves	2	1	1	0	2
Somerset Sabres	2	0	2	0	0

Group B

Team[5]	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts
PCA Masters XI	2	2	0	0	4
Chilaw Marians	2	1	1	0	2
Titans	2	0	2	0	0

Knockout stage

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Leicestershire Foxes	103 (19.5 ov)
	B2	Chilaw Marians	112/9 (20 ov)
						B2	Chilaw Marians	132 (19.5 ov)
						A2	Faisalabad Wolves	133/5 (18.1 ov)
	B1	PCA Masters XI	138/9 (20 ov)
	A2	Faisalabad Wolves	142/7 (20 ov)

Fixtures

Group stage

Group A

15 September 2005 14:00 Scorecard

Leicestershire Foxes	v	Faisalabad Wolves

Leicestershire Foxes won the bowl-out 5–3 Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: John Holder and Nigel Llong

• Match abandoned without a ball bowled.

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16 September 2005 10:30 Scorecard

Faisalabad Wolves 207/5 (20 overs)	v	Somerset Sabres 177 (19.4 overs)
Mohammad Hafeez 79 (35) Gareth Andrew 2/45 (4 overs)		Ian Blackwell 82 (48) Mohammad Hafeez 3/23 (3.4 overs)

Faisalabad Wolves won by 30 runs Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Trevor Jesty and Richard Kettleborough Player of the match: Mohammad Hafeez (Faisalabad Wolves)

• Somerset won the toss and elected to field.

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16 September 2005 17:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Leicestershire Foxes 172/6 (20 overs)	v	Somerset Sabres 106/8 (20 overs)
Darren Maddy 42 (27) Rob Woodman 2/37 (4 overs)		John Francis 49 (44) Dinesh Mongia 2/6 (4 overs)

Leicestershire Foxes won by 66 runs Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: John Holder and Trevor Jesty Player of the match: Dinesh Mongia (Leicestershire Foxes)

• Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to bat.

Group B

15 September 2005 10:30 Scorecard

Chilaw Marians 21/0 (2.1 overs)	v	PCA Masters XI
Charith Fernando 11* (10)

PCA Masters XI won the bowl-out 6–2 Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Nigel Cowley and Steve Garratt

• PCA Masters XI won the toss and elected to field.
• No result.

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15 September 2005 17:30 (D/N) Scorecard

PCA Masters XI	v	Titans

PCA Masters XI won the bowl-out 6-5 Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Nigel Cowley and John Holder

• Match abandoned without a ball bowled

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16 September 2005 14:00 Scorecard

Chilaw Marians 179 (19.1 overs)	v	Titans 112 (18 overs)
Nimesh Perera 39 (18) Johann Myburgh 3/16 (3 overs)		Alviro Petersen 29 (24) Janaka Gunaratne 4/21 (4 overs)

Chilaw Marians won by 67 runs Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Nigel Cowley and Nigel Llong

• Chilaw Marians won the toss and elected to bat.

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

17 September 2005 11:00 Scorecard

Chilaw Marians 112/9 (20 overs)	v	Leicestershire Foxes 103 (19.5 overs)
Hasantha Fernando 38 (34) David Masters 3/7 (4 overs)		Paul Nixon 19 (28) Hasantha Fernando 3/22 (4 overs)

Chilaw Marians won by 9 runs Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Richard Kettleborough and Nigel Llong Player of the match: Hasantha Fernando (Chilaw Marians)

• Chilaw Marians won the toss and elected to bat.

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17 September 2005 14:00 Scorecard

PCA Masters XI 138/9 (20 overs)	v	Faisalabad Wolves 142/7 (20 overs)
Robin Singh 38 (31) Imran Khalid 2/15 (4 overs)		Naved Latif 36 (25) Chris Gayle 3/13 (4 overs)

Faisalabad Wolves won by 3 wickets Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Nigel Cowley and Trevor Jesty Player of the match: Mohammad Salman (Faisalabad Wolves)

• PCA Masters XI won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

17 September 2005 17:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Chilaw Marians 132 (19.5 overs)	v	Faisalabad Wolves 133/5 (18.1 overs)
Nimesh Perera 37 (33) Saeed Ajmal 2/25 (4 overs)		Naved Latif 45 (33) Nimesh Perera 3/21 (3.1 overs)

Faisalabad Wolves won by 5 wickets Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: John Holder and Richard Kettleborough Player of the match: Naved Latif (Faisalabad Wolves)

• Chilaw Marians won the toss and elected to bat.

See also

• Champions League Twenty20
• Faisalabad Wolves

References

1. "Twenty20 'Champions League' takes shape". CricInfo (ESPN). 2005-08-22. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
2. "Sony, Sky Sports, SuperSport to air 20:20 Club Championship". Televisionpoint.com. 2005-09-05. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
3. Newman, Paul; Meet the man who invented Twenty20 cricket – the man missing out on millions; Daily Mail; 11 June 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009
4. "A sound idea fraught with risks". CricInfo (ESPN). 2005-09-15. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
5. International 20:20 Club Championship, 2005 - Points table

External links

• Tournament site - CricInfo