T20ChampionsLeagueLogo

Airtel Champions League Twenty20 is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between teams from India, Australia, England (England and Wales), South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies. The Twenty20 Champions League is chaired by Lalit Modi, who was the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and Vice-President of the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India). The competition was launched in 2008 as a response to the success of national Twenty20 domestic cricket leagues, most notably the Indian Premier League. The first edition was set to take place from late September to early October 2008 in India, after the tournament organisers resolved various teething problems that had put the inaugural tournament under some doubt, but it was later announced that the tournament would be held from December 3 to December 10, 2008. The tournament was postponed again following terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 (26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks) and was later cancelled. The first tournament was then held in October 2009. Indian mobile service Bharti Airtel bought the title sponsorship rights of the champions league for the reported amount of Rs. (Indian rupee) 170cr (crore) (USD 38.4 million).