PremiumCCL 2024: Not Vizag, but THIS city to host play-offs and finale
In a fairly last-minute development, the venue for the qualifier stage matches and finale of CCL 2024, to be held from March 15 to 17 has been changed.
Last Updated: 08.24 PM, Mar 07, 2024
Hyderabad is where the most finals of the Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) have been played; it is home ground for the organizers, after all. Very rarely have the most important stages of the tournament been played away from home. There was 2013, when the finale was in Bengaluru and 2023 when it went to Vishakapatnam.
In the 10th season too, Hyderabad was not to be the finale venue, although there were group stage matches; it was Vishakapatnam yet again. This was announced several weeks ago, and while the schedule had a change later on when Bengaluru was dropped as the stadium was not available due to the ongoing Women’s Premier League, Vishakapatnam (Vizag) seemed fixed. Apparently not!
According to the latest from the Celebrity Cricket League camp, the play-offs and finale are moving further south. CCL 2024 is all set to culminate in Thiruvananthapuram, where, instead of just the two matches featuring all the south teams on March 10, there will also be the Qualifier 1, Eliminator 1, Qualifier 2 and the finale, on the weekend of March 15 to 17. There will be 2 matches on March 15 and 1 each on March 16 and 17. The matches in Thiruvananthapuram will be held at the Greenfield International Stadium, with tickets to the same available on Ticketgenie.
With the teams all set to head into the last group stage matches, the Karnataka Bulldozers have already booked a spot in the play-offs, as the top team, having won all three of the matches so far. They are followed by Chennai Rhinos, Telugu Warriors and Mumbai Heroes, with two wins each. The Kerala Strikers and Bengal Tigers have 1 win each to their credit, with the latter having two more matches in the group stage. So, the final line-up of top four teams that will head into the play-offs is still up in the air.
The CCL 2024 matches are being live streamed on JioCinema. In case you’ve missed the earlier matches, some of which were quite exciting, with great sportsmanship on display, JioCinema has links to all previous encounters under the CCL tab. Doordarshan and Sony Ten 5 will also live telecast the matches.