Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
The Sialkot cricket team in Pakistan is also known as the Sialkot Stallions. Its home ground is Jinnah Stadium Sialkot. It plays in first-class domestic competitions. It was national champion in 2005-2006 and won Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Championship (Golden League) . It was runnerup in 2006-2007. Sialkot Stallions also won ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup in 2005-2006, 2006-2007 and RBS Twenty-20 Cup in 2007-2008. Sialkot Stallions will represent Pakistan in Twenty20 Champions League in December 2008. They were runnerup in ABN-AMRO Cup National One-day Championship in 2004-05 and 2006-07. Its home ground is Jinnah Stadium (Sialkot). According to latest Twenty 20 international ranking, Sialkot Stallions is at 2nd position, only one point behind Victorian Bushrangers, (Victoria, Australia). Sialkot is also the champion of One-day and Three-day competitions of the National Under-19 Championship.
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
