Celebrity Premier League ready to take off

It is said that India is a country that is united in diversity. The Film Industry and Cricket are two major factors that unite the people of India irrespective of region, language, religion etc. Just imagine what would happen if the two would combine into one?

No I am not talking about the Indian Premier League (IPL) but the Celebrity Premier League (CCL) T20 which will be held in Bangalore, Visakhapatnam and Chennai starting June 4, 2011.

The four major film industries namely Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil will compete in the T20 tournament. The teams are as follows:

Mumbai Heroes: Sunil Shetty (captain), Sohail Khan (vice-captain), Salman Khan, Arbaz Khan, Aftab, Sonu Sood, Ritesh Deshmukh, Angad Bedi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Kunal Khemu, Arbaz Khan, Ashish Chowdary, Harman Baweja

Telugu Warriors: Venkatesh (captain), Vishnu (vice-captain), Siddharth, Srikanth, Taraka Ratna, Tarun, Rajeev Kanakala, Adarsh, Ajay, Nitin, Ayyappa Sharma, Samrat

Chennai Rhinos: Surya (captain), Abbas (vice-captain), Shimbu, Jayam Ravi, Karthi, Arya, Vikranth, Shantanu Bhagyaraj, Bharat, Jeeva, Shaam, Srinath, Vishal

Karnataka Bulldozers: Sudeep (captain), Dhruv (vice-captain), Shivraj kumar, Upendra, Chiranjeevi Sarja, Diganth, Jai Karthik, Pradeep, Tarun, Sudhir, Rajeev, Mahesh, Bhaskar

Aakash Chopra, the former India batsman tweeted earlier on Friday that the matches would be telecasted live on Sahara One starting 3 PM IST. The finals would be played on June 12, 2011 at Visakhapatnam.

This league promises complete entertainment as we will see the reel stars play cricket in real life.