ICL 20-20 Indian Championship 2007/08

The Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship 2007/08 was the first tournament in the debut season of the ICL. The season commenced on the 30 November, 2007 and the final match was held on 16 December 2007. The league consisted of six teams and each team played each other once prior to classification matches.

2007 season

The inaugural season for The INDIAN Cricket League was scheduled to begin in October 2007 but later shifted to start from November 30 with six club teams. The Chennai Superstars emerged as the inaugural ICL champions, beating the Chandigarh Lions by 12 runs in the final. Superstars bowler Shabbir Ahmed was declared Man of the Match for claiming four wickets, including a hat-trick while Superstars batsman Ian Harvey was declared Player of the Tournament for scoring 266 runs in 7 matches and taking 9 wickets.

Fixtures & Results

No.

Date

Team 1

Captain

Team 2

Captain

Result

Group Stage

1st Match

November 30

Chandigarh Lions

Chris Cairns

Delhi Jets

Marvan Atapattu

Lions by 9 runs

2nd Match

December 1

Chennai Superstars

Stuart Law

Kolkata Tigers

Craig McMillan

Superstars by 6 runs

3rd Match

December 1

Hyderabad Heroes

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Mumbai Champs

Brian Lara

Heroes by 33 runs

4th Match

December 2

Delhi Jets

Marvan Atapattu

Hyderabad Heroes

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Jets by 5 wickets

5th Match

December 2

Chandigarh Lions

Chris Cairns

Kolkata Tigers

Craig McMillan

Tigers by 43 runs

6th Match

December 4

Chennai Superstars

Stuart Law

Mumbai Champs

Brian Lara

Superstars by 38 runs

7th Match

December 5

Chandigarh Lions

Chris Cairns

Hyderabad Heroes

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Lions by 6 wickets

8th Match

December 7

Delhi Jets

Marvan Atapattu

Mumbai Champs

Brian Lara

Jets by 24 runs

9th Match

December 8

Chandigarh Lions

Chris Cairns

Chennai Superstars

Stuart Law

Superstars by 4 wickets

10th Match

December 8

Delhi Jets

Marvan Atapattu

Kolkata Tigers

Craig McMillan

Tigers by 4 wickets

11th Match

December 9

Chennai Superstars

Stuart Law

Hyderabad Heroes

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Heroes by 7 wickets

12th Match

December 9

Chandigarh Lions

Chris Cairns

Mumbai Champs

Brian Lara

Lions by 38 runs

13th Match

December 10

Kolkata Tigers

Craig McMillan

Mumbai Champs

Brian Lara

Champs by 7 runs

14th Match

December 12

Chennai Superstars

Rajagopal Sathish

Delhi Jets

Marvan Atapattu

Jets by 6 wickets

15th Match

December 12

Hyderabad Heroes

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Kolkata Tigers

Craig McMillan

Tigers by 53 runs

Standings

Points Table

Team

Kolkata Tigers

Delhi Jets

Chandigarh Lions

Chennai Superstars

Hyderabad Heroes

Mumbai Champs

Knock-out

Match

Date

Team 1

Captain

Team 2

Captain

Result

Man of the Match

Knock-Out Phase

Semi-Final

December 14

Kolkata Tigers

Craig McMillan

Chennai Superstars

Stuart Law

Superstars by 93 runs

Rajagopal Sathish (Superstars)

5th/6th Place Play-Off

December 15

Hyderabad Heroes

Ambati Rayudu

Mumbai Champs

Brian Lara

Heroes by 25 runs

Abdul Razzaq (Heroes)

Semi-Final

December 15

Delhi Jets

Marvan Atapattu

Chandigarh Lions

Chris Cairns

Lions by 4 wickets

Abbas Ali (Jets)

3rd/4th Place Play-Off

December 16

Delhi Jets

Marvan Atapattu

Kolkata Tigers

Craig McMillan

Jets by 5 wickets

Marvan Atapattu (Jets)

Final

December 16

Chandigarh Lions

Chris Cairns

Chennai Superstars

Stuart Law

Superstars by 12 runs

Shabbir Ahmed (Superstars)

    • All Games played at 'Home Ground' - Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Panchkula
    • Man of the Series: Ian Harvey