Twenty20 Champions League Betting 2011
The Twenty20 Champions League 2011 is held in India from 23 September 2011 to 09 October 2011 and will be third annual edition of the Twenty20 Champions League. The tournament is sponsored by telecommunications giant Nokia and the Chennai Super Kings are the defending champions.
The Twenty20 Champions League 2011 begins with a six-team qualifying stage from which three teams will progress to the tournament proper. Kolkata Knight Riders, Auckland Aces, Somerset, Trinidad & Tobago, Ruhuna Rhinos and Leicestershire Foxes are split into two groups of three with the two group winners and best second-place finishers qualifying to the next stage.
The three qualifiers will join Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians, New South Wales Blues, Cape Cobras, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Warriors and Southern Redbacks in the group stages where they are split into two groups of five. The top two teams in each group will then qualify for the semi-finals where the tournament takes on a straight knockout format.
Twenty20 Champions League Winner Betting
As defending champions and IPL title holders the Chennai Super Kings are naturally one of the Twenty20 Champions League Betting 2011 favourites. IPL runners-up Royal Challengers Bangalore are also strong contenders having finished last year’s IPL with a storm led by Chris Gayle.
2009 champions New South Wales will also be involved in the Twenty20 Champions League Betting 2011 as they look to regain the title that they did not get the chance to defend last year.
Twenty20 Champions League Qualifying Betting
Friends Life Twenty20 champions Leicestershire Foxes and runners-up Somerset completed the qualifying stage line-up when they won through to finals day at Edgbaston in late August. They join Auckland Aces - the winners of New Zealand’s HRV Cup, Caribbean Twenty20 champions Trinidad & Tobago, Sri Lankan champions Ruhuna Rhinos and the IPL’s fourth place team Kolkata Knight Riders in the Twenty20 Champions League Betting 2011 qualifying stages.
Kolkata, Auckland and Somerset make up Pool A while Trinidad & Tobago, Ruhuna and Leicestershire are drawn together in Pool B.
The English sides are fancied to qualify for the tournament proper as are Kolkata and 2009 runners-up Trinidad & Tobago in what is a high quality qualifying stage.
Twenty20 Champions League Betting 2011 is available on which teams will progress from the qualifying stage as are Cricket Betting markets relating to the outcome and specific situations in each individual match.
Twenty20 Champions League Group Stage Betting
The group stages of the Twenty20 Champions League sees each team in the group play every other team once. With two points awarded for the win the top two teams in each group progress to the semi-finals.
Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians, New South Wales Blues and Cape Cobras have been drawn together in Group A and will be joined by the winners of Pool B in the qualifying stages.
Group B is made up of Royal Challengers Bangalore, Warriors and Southern Redbacks along with the Pool A winners and the best second place qualifiers from the qualifying stages.