The BCCI, Cricket Australia and CSA announced the rescheduling of the second edition of the Champions League T20 in 2009.

The three founding member boards reiterated that this was a goodwill response to a request from the International Cricket Council (ICC) to consider new playing dates for 2009.

The second Champions League Twenty20 will now be contested from October 8 to 23 inclusive, the three cricket boards said in a joint statement today. In all 12 teams will be taking part in the competition.

The second edition of the Champions League Twenty20 was scheduled to be held from September 25 to October 10, 2009 but the ICC has rescheduled the Champions Trophy from September 24 to October 5, 2009 to be held in Pakistan.

Since there was a clash of dates, the three founding member boards decided on the fresh dates for the 2009 Champions League Twenty20.

The inaugural Champions League Twenty20 will be held from December 3 to 10 inclusive, this year. Eight teams, consisting of the reigning winners and runners-up from the domestic Twenty20 competitions in India, Australia and South Africa, plus the reigning Twenty20 champion Sialkot from Pakistan, and the reigning Twenty20 Cup champion from England, Middlesex, have been invited to contest the 2008 Champions Twenty20 League.

The tournament offers teams US$6 million of prize money, the biggest prize money in the world for cricket at a domestic competition level. The prize money, including US$3 million for the winning team, will be shared equally between the teams and their players.

The Governing Council of the event and its founding cricket boards believe the significant prize money to be paid to teams and players will ensure that the benefits of the event will foster cricket's development by injecting new funding into domestic-level cricket and at the same time will handsomely reward domestic-level cricketers and provide a unique opportunity for a higher public profile for players at the level below international cricket.