CELEBRITY CRICKET LEAGUE

CELEBRITY CRICKET LEAGUE

 4 Teams, 6 League matches and 1 Explosive finale.

Going Live from 2.30 p.m, Saturday, 4^th June, on Sahara One

Mumbai: Celebrity Cricket League (CCL), an initiative combining the two most popular forms of entertainment - cinema and cricket is set to bring together Bollywood and the southern film industry to play the game of cricket this June. For the first time in India, the film fraternities from southern film industry – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bollywood will come together to play in the T20 format. This multi-starrer action entertainer will kick-start from Saturday, 4^th June, 2.30 p.m. onwards at Bengaluru and will be telecast live on Sahara One. Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) aims to bring entertainment to another level by mixing film industry with India's most loved sports Cricket.

The Celebrity Cricket League (CCLT20) will consist of four teams – Mumbai Heroes, Chennai Rhinos, Karnataka BullDozers and Telugu Warriors.

Mumbai Heroes will be led by Suniel Shetty as its captain and Ritiesh Deshmukh as vice-captain. Superstar SALMAN KHAN will be the iconic player for Mumbai Heroes.

The Mumbai Heroes team includes other players like Aftab Shivdasani, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ashish Choudhary, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Raja Bherwani, Kabir Sadanand, Apoorva Lakhia, Sonu Sood, Sunny Singh, Angad Bedi, Varun Badola, Vatsal Seth and Sohail Khan.

The teams from Southern Film Industry will also see known names in its team combination. Popular actor Kicha Sudeep will captain the Karnataka BullDozers, superstar actor Venkatesh will lead Telugu Warriors and Superstar actor Abbas will lead the Tamil Rhinos.

The opening ceremony of Celebrity Cricket League will be on Saturday, June 4 at 2.30 p.m. This ceremony will be a grand affair with a performance by 1200 drummers and Indian singing sensational singer Sonu Nigam.

Celebrity Cricket League is an idea to combine Cricket and Cinema to produce one sensational mixture of entertainment for audience. It is for the first time in India that the film fraternities from South and Bollywood will battle each other for the coveted top spot a la the Cricket way, live on a Hindi GEC. So do not miss the action-packed extravaganza that is all set to evoke a sky-high adrenaline rush; what with so many superstars being seen in one place, at one time.

Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) live on Sahara One as per the match schedules below:

Schedule:

June 4, 2011 Bengaluru

2.30PM : Opening Ceremony

3pm: TAMIL RHINOS vs Telugu warriors

7pm: Karnataka Bulldozers vs Mumbai Heroes

June 5, 2011 Chennai

1pm: Karnataka Bulldozers vs tamil RHINOS

5pm: Telugu Warriors vs Mumbai Heroes

June 11, 2011 Vizag

3pm: Karnataka Bulldozers vs Telugu Warriors
7pm: tamil RHINOS vs Mumbai Heroes

June 12, 2011 Hyderabad

5PM: Finals

For more details, please contact: 
Atul Malikram 
9827092823