The League, which will have West Indies batting great Brian Lara and some other recently retired international cricketers as its star attraction, will be held in Panchkula, Chandigarh, from November 30 to December 16.
The tournament, to be played at Tau Devi Lal Cricket Stadium, will have 20 matches in all and will carry a prize money of USD 1 million.

The dates and venue were finalised at the ICL’s Executive Board meeting here, giving the rebel body a head start over the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s proposed Indian Premier League, which is scheduled to be held in April next year.

Twenty matches
The tournament, a brainchild of Subhash Chandra-owned Essel Group, will have 20 matches, which includes 15 round-robin matches and five classification ties. The final preceded by three classification matches will be played on December 16.“The ICL Twenty20 championship will be held as promised, later next month at Chandigarh. We are working hard to deliver a very exciting tournament for the viewers. I am confident that the public in this country will witness for the first time a fully professionally organised cricket extravaganza,” ICL chairman Kapil Dev said.

Pakistan’s Abdul Razzaq, Imran Farhat and Azhar Mahmood, South Africans Lance Klusener and Nicky Boje and New Zealand’s Chris Cairns, Chris Harris, Nathan Astle and Hamish Marshall, as well as Darren Maddy of England are some of the other foreign players who have signed up for ICL.

Dinesh Mongia, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, JP Yadav, Deep Dasgupta, Nilesh Kulkarni, S Sriram, T Kumaran, Ambati Rayudu, Mihir Diwakar, Rakesh Patel and Kiran Powar are the top domestic players who will be seen in action.
Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and prolific batsman Mohammad Yousuf had initially signed for the ICL, but cancelled their contracts and have now aligned with the IPL, which is seen as a counter to the breakaway league.