International 20:20 Club Championship

International 20:20 Club Championship

Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and knockout
Host(s)	England
Champions	Faisalabad Wolves (1st title)
Participants	6
Matches	9

The International 20:20 Club Championship was an international Twenty20 competition for club cricket teams. It was held once, hosted by Leicestershire County Cricket Club from 15 to 17 September 2005. It featured the winners of the domestic Twenty20 competitions from England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as the Leicestershire Foxes and the PCA Masters XI, a composition of current and past players of international cricket from around the world.^[1] The winners were awarded £25,000.^[2]

The competition was the first notable attempt at a competition featuring the top domestic Twenty20 teams from around the world. As Twenty20 cricket had only been introduced in 2003, the scale of the competition was limited. Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies were not represented due to their lack of a domestic Twenty20 competition. The competition had limited television coverage, and three of the nine games could not proceed due to bad weather.^[3] While this competition was only held once, the creation of an international Twenty20 club tournament was executed successfully with the Champions League Twenty20 in 2009.

• Somerset Sabres (2005 Twenty20 Cup winners)
• Leicestershire Foxes (2004 Twenty20 Cup winners)
• Chilaw Marians (2004 Twenty20 Challenge Trophy winners)
• Faisalabad Wolves (2004–05 ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup winners)
• Titans (2004–05 Standard Bank Pro20 Series winners)
• PCA Masters XI

Group A

Team[4]	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts
Leicestershire Foxes	2	2	0	0	4
Faisalabad Wolves	2	1	1	0	2
Somerset Sabres	2	0	2	0	0

15 September 2005 14:00 Scorecard

Leicestershire Foxes	v	Faisalabad Wolves

Leicestershire Foxes won the bowl-out 5–3 Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: John Holder and Nigel Llong

• Match abandoned without a ball bowled.

16 September 2005 10:30 Scorecard

Faisalabad Wolves 207/5 (20 overs)	v	Somerset Sabres 177 (19.4 overs)
Mohammad Hafeez 79 (35) Gareth Andrew 2/45 (4 overs)		Ian Blackwell 82 (48) Mohammad Hafeez 3/23 (3.4 overs)

Faisalabad Wolves won by 30 runs Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Trevor Jesty and Richard Kettleborough Player of the match: Mohammad Hafeez (Faisalabad Wolves)

• Somerset won the toss and elected to field.

16 September 2005 17:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Leicestershire Foxes 172/6 (20 overs)	v	Somerset Sabres 106/8 (20 overs)
Darren Maddy 42 (27) Rob Woodman 2/37 (4 overs)		John Francis 49 (44) Dinesh Mongia 2/6 (4 overs)

Leicestershire Foxes won by 66 runs Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: John Holder and Trevor Jesty Player of the match: Dinesh Mongia (Leicestershire Foxes)

• Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to bat.

Group B

Team[4]	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts
PCA Masters XI	2	2	0	0	4
Chilaw Marians	2	1	1	0	2
Titans	2	0	2	0	0

15 September 2005 10:30 Scorecard

Chilaw Marians 21/0 (2.1 overs)	v	PCA Masters XI
Charith Fernando 11* (10)

PCA Masters XI won the bowl-out 6–2 Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Nigel Cowley and Steve Garratt

• PCA Masters XI won the toss and elected to field.
• No result.

15 September 2005 17:30 (D/N) Scorecard

PCA Masters XI	v	Titans

PCA Masters XI won the bowl-out 6-5 Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Nigel Cowley and John Holder

• Match abandoned without a ball bowled

16 September 2005 14:00 Scorecard

Chilaw Marians 179 (19.1 overs)	v	Titans 112 (18 overs)
Nimesh Perera 39 (18) Johann Myburgh 3/16 (3 overs)		Alviro Petersen 29 (24) Janaka Gunaratne 4/21 (4 overs)

Chilaw Marians won by 67 runs Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Nigel Cowley and Nigel Llong

• Chilaw Marians won the toss and elected to bat.

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Leicestershire Foxes	103 (19.5 ov)
	B2	Chilaw Marians	112/9 (20 ov)
						B2	Chilaw Marians	132 (19.5 ov)
						A2	Faisalabad Wolves	133/5 (18.1 ov)
	B1	PCA Masters XI	138/9 (20 ov)
	A2	Faisalabad Wolves	142/7 (20 ov)

Semi-finals

17 September 2005 11:00 Scorecard

Chilaw Marians 112/9 (20 overs)	v	Leicestershire Foxes 103 (19.5 overs)
Hasantha Fernando 38 (34) David Masters 3/7 (4 overs)		Paul Nixon 19 (28) Hasantha Fernando 3/22 (4 overs)

Chilaw Marians won by 9 runs Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Richard Kettleborough and Nigel Llong Player of the match: Hasantha Fernando (Chilaw Marians)

• Chilaw Marians won the toss and elected to bat.

17 September 2005 14:00 Scorecard

PCA Masters XI 138/9 (20 overs)	v	Faisalabad Wolves 142/7 (20 overs)
Robin Singh 38 (31) Imran Khalid 2/15 (4 overs)		Naved Latif 36 (25) Chris Gayle 3/13 (4 overs)

Faisalabad Wolves won by 3 wickets Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: Nigel Cowley and Trevor Jesty Player of the match: Mohammad Salman (Faisalabad Wolves)

• PCA Masters XI won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

17 September 2005 17:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Chilaw Marians 132 (19.5 overs)	v	Faisalabad Wolves 133/5 (18.1 overs)
Nimesh Perera 37 (33) Saeed Ajmal 2/25 (4 overs)		Naved Latif 45 (33) Nimesh Perera 3/21 (3.1 overs)

Faisalabad Wolves won by 5 wickets Grace Road, Leicester Umpires: John Holder and Richard Kettleborough Player of the match: Naved Latif (Faisalabad Wolves)

• Chilaw Marians won the toss and elected to bat.

• Champions League Twenty20
• Faisalabad Wolves

• Tournament site - CricInfo