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Watch All the *Live Action and Video Highlights from the Champions League T20 consisting of 8 Winners of the T20 Tournament across the World to battle out with each other in the Champions League T20 Only on the ESPN Star.* Dubai, Earlier the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa received 3 bids for the ten-year broadcast rights of the Champions League Twenty20. It has just been announced that the tender has been awarded to ESPN Star at a total cost of $900 million.
*Eight teams*, consisting of the *reigning winners and runners-up from the domestic Twenty20 competitions in India, Australia and South Africa, plus the winners of 2008 Twenty20 championships (to be held in October 2008) from Pakistan, and the reigning Twenty20 Cup champion from England, Middlesex, have been invited to contest the 2008 Champions League Twenty20.* The inaugural contest was announced on 30th July this year, offering teams .....
US$6 million of prize money, the biggest prize money in world cricket for cricket at a domestic competition level. The prize money, including US$3 million for the winning team, ....will be shared between the teams and their players. The Governing Council of the event together with its founding cricket boards believe, the significant prize money to be shared by teams and players will ensure that the benefits of the event will foster cricket's development by injecting new funding into domestic-level cricket and at the same time will handsomely reward domestic-level cricketers and provide a unique opportunity for a higher public profile for players at the level below international cricket.
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