Champions League to Move Out of India

Mumbai: Here's something Lalit Modi's Twitter page is yet to reveal. The second edition of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament will be moving out of India for season 2010.

The possibility of this, along with fixing the dates and looking at the right venue was discussed in detail when the governing council of the Champions League met in Dubai on Wednesday.

The tournament is scheduled to be played from September 10-26. While the governing council found a solution to schedule the tournament in the middle of a packed ICC Future Tours Program (FTP), a final decision on the venue is yet to be taken. "It will be a toss up between South Africa and UK (England)".

There are two reasons for the tournament to be moved out of India. A major reason is the rain factor, with the tournament beginning in the second week of September. The last thing a billion-dollar tournament would want is the fear of matches being washed away. And the dates cannot be tweaked because of the hectic FTP.

The second reason is the very idea of making the Champions League a global tournament, something that Modi had been emphasising since he initiated the concept.

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