Champions League Twenty 20 2014

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Champions League Twenty 20 2014

13 September to 4 October 2014

$2.5 million - Winners
$1.3 million - Runners-up
$500,000 - Losing Semifinalists
$200,000 - Team Finishing 5th to 10th

LAHORE LIONS WILL BE REPRESENTING PAKISTAN


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Lahore Lions' Adnan Rasool reported for suspect bowling action

HYDERABAD: While the national team reels from the suspension of Saeed Ajmal owing to his illegal bowling action, Pakistan Cricket Board’s scant attention to this subject in domestic cricket has come to haunt domestic side Lahore Lions in the midst of their Champions League T20 stint. On Monday, Lions’ bowler Adnan Rasool was reported for a suspected illegal bowling action.
During the Oppo CLT20 match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Hyderabad on Sunday evening, on-field umpires found Rasool’s action as suspect. After the match ended, on-field umpires Kumar Dharamsena and C. Shamshuddin along with third umpire Anil Chaudhary, reported the bowler.
“Under the CLT20 Suspected Illegal Bowling Action policy, Rasool may request an Official Assessment from the BCCI Suspect Bowling Action Committee,” a release said on Monday.
“Rasool has been placed on the warning list and may continue to be selected to play and bowl for his team in a match.”
Under the CLT20 Suspected Illegal Bowling Action policy, if a player receives a report while on the warning list, the player shall be suspended from bowling for the remainder of the tournament and from bowling in any matches organised by the BCCI until such date as he is cleared.
A player suspended from bowling may continue to be selected to play in matches, however he will not be entitled to bowl.
Lions were beaten by Kolkata Knigh Riders by four wickets as they overhauled the Pakistani outfit’s total of 151 runs.

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bus is ka b hona reh gaya tha

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Suryakumar cameo pushes KKR to semi-finals

Kolkata Knight Riders 153 for 7 (Suryakumar 43*, Arafat 3-39) beat Perth Scorchers 151 for 7 (Voges 71*, Narine 4-31, Kuldeep 3-24) by three wickets

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11th Match, Group A: Super Kings v Lahore Lions at Bangalore
Sep 25, 2014 (20:00 local | 14:30 GMT | 19:30 PKT)

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mujhe tu lagta hai india ki hi team jeetegi .. or baki tu aise hi khelte hain jaise bache hote aaj ka match b acha khasa tha kon aisi bowl deta hai k chika pare

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11th Match, Group A: Super Kings v Lahore Lions at Bangalore
Sep 25, 2014 (20:00 local | 14:30 GMT | 19:30 PKT)

hmm lets see yeh kia gul khilate hain kaal.. aik team ne kitne matches khelne hain?

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Lahore lions ki kia position hai? Ja sakte agy k nahi?

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Hmmm nice..

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Lions v Scorchers, CLT20, Group B, Bangalore

Lions need massive win to qualify

Match facts
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Start time 1600 local (1030 GMT)

Big picture
It's calculator-time in the Champions League T20, as a victory for Lahore Lions in their last league match will result in the net run-rate deciding whether Lions or Chennai Super Kings progress to the semi-finals. For Lions to qualify, they need to win by a large margin - by around 50 runs if they bat first, or by around the 15th over if they are chasing.
Lions have already been in a similar situation once before in this tournament, when they needed to win their final league game of the qualifying stage. On that occasion, they thumped Sri Lanka's Northern Express to stay alive. Now they are up against Perth Scorchers, who have already been eliminated.
Scorchers have had their share of problems against spin in this tournament - averaging 19.9 against the turning ball compared to 32.37 against pace. They are likely to be tested by the offspin of Mohammad Hafeez and Adnan Rasool, both of whom have strangled the opposition in the CLT20, with both conceding less than 7 an over. The match could well be decided by the battle between Scorchers' batsmen and Lions' spinners.
Lions' supporters will already be disappointed after their second side lost in the final of the domestic Twenty20 final on Sunday. They will hope the first XI gives them something to cheer about.

Form guide
Lahore Lions WLWLW (completed matches only, most recent first)
Perth Scorchers LLWWW

Watch out for
Nathan Coulter-Nile will be playing only his third game since a five-month break due to a hamstring injury. He looked sharp in the previous game, stifling the hitters of Chennai Super Kings with the new ball, before getting the coveted wicket of MS Dhoni later on. Coulter-Nile has said he wants to make the World Cup squad, and with little over four months to go for the start of that tournament, he needs to string together as many solid performances as he can.
Rarely have players been as important to a team as Mohammad Hafeez is to Lions - he is the side's captain, and has often opened the batting as well as the bowling for them. How much will being reported for a suspect action affect him in the crunch match? With only one score above 20 in five matches in the CLT20, he will also look to provide more with the bat against Scorchers.

Stats and trivia

• Yasir Arafat needs one more wicket to equal Azhar Mahmood's tally of 241 T20 wickets, which will put him joint fourth on the all-time list
• The Chinnaswamy Stadium has now hosted more T20 matches (64) than any other Indian ground, barring the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad (70).