Champions league twenty20 2012 Features

Others might not have performed up to expected levels, Umesh Yadav at least, tried his level best in the match against Kolkata Knight Riders.

As cricket's T20 domestic champions battle it out for supremacy in South Africa, alarm bells are ringing that the proliferation of such tournaments has "considerably increased the risk" of match-fixing.

While star players from IPL and other T20 leagues battle it out in the Champions League T20, there are quite a few big names that the tournament will sorely miss this year.

There's no love lost between Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn. Their rivalry is old and everyone in B-Town is well aware of it. So it comes as a surprise to note that Devgn is lending his name as brand ambassador to the Champions League Twenty20 being played in South Africa.

Trevor Bayliss is the quintessential Twenty20 coach who has already steered two teams to October's Champions League in South Africa, and is looking to take a third to the qualifying phase of the same tournament.