Champions League Twenty20 makes senior appointments 22/10/2008 |
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The governing council of the Champions League Twenty20 has made senior appointments. Sundar Raman is appointed as CEO while Dhiraj Malhotra will function as tournament director for the inaugural tournament to be held from 3 to 10 December.
Raman is currently the COO of the Indian Premier League (IPL). He has been working on Champions League ever since the IPL inaugural edition concluded. He will take on this responsibility in addition to his role with IPL.
Malhotra is also the tournament director for IPL and has been with the International Cricket Council for the last three years. He has worked on the inaugural T20 World Cup in South Africa and also the World Cup in West Indies. In addition, he has worked on various Champion Trophies and under-19 World Cups.
Australian Dean Kino is appointed as director legal and business affairs, Michael Brown is GM Cricket Operations and South African Brian Bassson is cricket programming and logistics.
Champions League Twenty20 chairman Lalit Modi said, "The organisational infrastructure for the Champions League Twenty20 has taken shape. They constitute a highly resourceful and talented team and have done a wonderful job managing cricket for the respective boards. I am confident that they will bring to bear all their experience to make the Champions League Twenty20 a huge success."
Eight teams, consisting of the reigning winners and runners-up from the domestic Twenty20 competitions in India, Australia and South Africa, reigning Twenty20 champion Sialkot from Pakistan and the reigning Twenty20 Cup champion from England, Middlesex, have been invited to contest the 2008 Champions Twenty20 League.
The prize money of the tournament is $6 million which includes $3 million for the winning team; the rest will be shared equally between the teams and their players.
(Source: Indiantelevision.com)
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