Haroon Lorgat, the Chief Executive of the ICC, said in a statement: "The ICC Board, which includes all Full Members, worked together last October to come up with a date for this year's Champions League tournament that was mutually convenient for all," he said. "However, that was only as part of a wider discussion on when we could play the Champions Trophy, which was postponed from Pakistan in 2008 and relocated to South Africa.”

"The FTP does not include any fixtures between domestic teams, even those from more than one country, and only features ICC events, such as the ICC Cricket World Cup, the ICC Champions Trophy and the ICC World Twenty20, and bilateral fixtures between Full Member international teams,” he added. He also added that he has contacted Modi regarding this matter, and the two of them were in “full agreement”.

Though the Champions league is a large scale international event, it is ultimately a club event where 12 Domestic Twenty20 winning teams from 7 countries will get together for a tournament. From India, the top three IPL teams qualified: Deccan Chargers, Bangalore Royal Challengers and Delhi Daredevils; from Australia there are the New South Wales Blues and Victoria Bush Rangers; from South Africa, the Cape Cobras and Diamond Eagles; New Zealand, West Indies and Sri Lanka will each have one participating team – the Otago Volts, Trinidad & Tobago, and Wayamba respectively. The two participating teams from England are yet to be decided as their domestic Twenty20 Cup only begins on Monday and the finalists will be decided on August 25.

The inaugural season of the Champion’s League was to be held last October in India, but had to be postponed following the terror attacks in Mumbai. It will be held this year from October 8th to the 23rd in India. In a total of 23 matches, the 12 teams will be divided into 4 groups of 3 teams each where they will play on a league basis before the top two teams from each group move on to the second stage. Four top teams from there will qualify for the knockout stage. The venues for the matches will be decided next month.

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