It is common knowledge that ECB tried to stand- up to the BCCI and tried to bamboozle it into agreeing to its terms. The fact that BCCI called its bluff leaving ECB holding its nether member in its hands has not stopped them from trying to scuttle the tournament.
Consider this:
Consider this:
Middlesex are now waiting for confirmation the tournament, which is due to be staged in India from September 29 to October 8, is an officially-sanctioned tournament by the International Cricket Council.
The ICC, the world’s governing body, have ruled no official events can be staged a week before or a week after a global event, but the Champions League is due to start only a day after the end of the Champions Trophy.
Read the highlighted statement carefully. What it is trying to say is Middlesex will play only if the Twenty20 Champions League is sanctioned by the ICC. The statement is also trying to equate it with the ICL, by calling it unauthorized.
The statement cleverly pits ICC and the Twenty20 Champions League organisers against each other in the fond hope that ICC will say that the League is unauthorized. However, the ECB has forgotten that a inter-club/domestic tournament is beyond ICC's jurisdiction.
Surely, the ECB will leave no stone unturned to scuttle the Twenty20 Champions League.
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