By IANS
Chennai : The inaugural Twenty20 cricket tournament of the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) will start from Nov 30 at Panchkula, Chandigarh, its executive board announced here Tuesday.
“The ICL Twenty20 Indian Championship will be held as promised … later next month at Chandigarh. We are working hard to deliver a very exciting tournament for the Indian viewers,” Kapil Dev, chairman of the executive board, said in a statement after a board meeting.
“I am confident that the public in this country will witness for the first time a fully professionally run and organised extravaganza of cricket,” he added.
The tournament will have 20 matches from Nov 30 and the final has been slated for Dec 16 at the Tau Devi Lal stadium in Panchkula.
There will be 15 League matches where all teams play each other once, followed by five classification matches.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which is the parent body of the sport in the country, has opposed the creation of ICL.