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The Cricket Victoria CEO Nick Cummins has revealed that the Board for Control of Cricket in India, England Cricket Board and Cricket Australia are in 'active talks' about restarting the Champions League T20 (CLT20) tournament. The CLT20 was an annual international Twenty20 Cricket competition which included top domestic teams from some major cricketing nations.
The competition was launched in 2008 with the first edition held in October 2009 and was jointly owned by the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa. But in 2011, citing poor viewing figures, a lack of audience interest and unstable sponsorship, the three founding cricket boards announced.
CA, ECB & BCCI are in active conversations about CLT20: Cummins
Speaking at an event in Mumbai on Tuesday, Nick Cummins said, "I think the Champions League was ahead of its time. The T20 landscape wasn't mature enough at that point. I think it is now. I know that there's active conversations between Cricket Australia, the ECB, and the BCCI about the Champions League.
Cummins then pointed out the biggest issue for the Cricket Boards to revive the CLT20 and said, "It's just trying to find a window as to when you actually play that because you've also got all the ICC tournaments as well. It may be that the first iteration of the Champions League will be of the women… [it may involve cricketers playing in] the WPL, the Hundred and the WBBL."
