BCCI : Mini-IPL to replace Champions League T20

BCCI : Mini-IPL to replace Champions League T20  :

The Indian cricket board is all set to unleash IPL-2,  loss in interest for Champions League T20 prompts Indian board to move on mini version of IPL.

The IPL administering chamber is meeting on July 8 in Delhi to examine different options for the CLT20. As indicated by a BCCI insider, "It is a given that CLT20 is history and now is the ideal time to look ahead".

Apparently, the three sheets representing the multinational T20 competition have marked a way out condition with the supporter of a competition. There are different choices which will be examined in the meeting as a substitute for the three-week space of CLT20.

The new pursuit will include the main four IPL groups that have made the playoffs this year, and will be played in a group arrangement prompting a knockout stage. "The arranging is on and we will have a meeting on this before this IPL gets more than. It's learnt that the BCCI's new secretary Anurag Thakur has educated Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa — India, Australia and South Africa are joint proprietors of CLT20 — that they will be scrapping CLT20 from this season.

The BCCI has obviously benefitted financially due to the settlement with the CL20 broadcaster. But if a mini IPL is indeed finalised, it will also be good news for the players as IPL cricketers and franchises will find it easier to oblige their contracts. According to the contract, ten percent of every player's IPL contract is set aside as his match fees for the CLT20, provided his team qualifies for the tournament. And according to the contract of the franchises, a portion of every franchise's sponsorship deal is understood to have been provisionally based on its qualification for the CLT20.

The only way a series against West Indies will be finalised is if the governing council decided against filling in the CLT20 squad with a franchise-based league.