Champions League Twenty20 2014 will take place in India this year. The mouth watering fixture for any cricket lover will start from 13th September, 2014 and a total of 29 matches will be played at 4 different venues including the qualifying round during the tournament. Twelve formidable T20 teams from seven test playing countries will participate in the tournament and apart from qualifying round the teams will battle their way through a group stage and a knock out stage to vanquish the glory of CL T20 2014. Check out how to buy tickets for CL T20 2014?
The instatement match of qualifying round will be played between Northern Districts and Southern Express at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur and all of the six matches of qualifying round will take place at this same venue. The first match of final fixture between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings will clock in at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad.
CL T20 2014 stadiums
Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur (Capacity: 60,000), Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad (Capacity: 55,000), Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali (Capacity: 28,000) and M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore (capacity: 36,430).
Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium
Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium is a newly made ground at the city Naya Raipur, India. According to capacity it is the fourth largest cricket stadium in the world and second largest cricket stadium in India as it seats somewhere around 60,000 to 65,000 spectators. The qualifying round of Champions League Twenty20 2014 will be played here and some of the group matches will also wind up at this stadium.
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium earlier known as Visaka International Cricket Stadium is the preeminent stadium of Hyderabad. Basically it is located in Uppal, in Hyderabad and it benches a near about 55,000 people. The north end of this stadium is named after VVS Laxman in order to honour the state hero. Including some group matches both of the semi finals of CL T20 2014 will take place in this stadium.
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium
formerly known as Mohali, one of the famous cricket grounds in India is now acknowledged as
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium. It is also the home ground of Kings XI Punjab which got direct entrance to the 2014th edition of CL T20 and they are the runners-up of IPL 2014. It has a capacity of around 28,000 to 30,000 people. Punjab Cricket Association Stadium is situated at Ajitgarh, outside the city of Chandigarh. The owner and the developer of the stadium is also PCA.
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is situated at Bangalore, Karnataka and it is one of the oldest stadiums of India which established in 1969 and it has a capacity of 36,000 to 40,000 spectators. It is formerly known as the Karnataka State Cricket Association and basically located at MG Road, which known as heart of the city of Bangalore. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is also the home team of Royal Challengers Bangalore, a team of Indian premier league. The Final match of Champions League T20 2014 will be played in this stadium.