Changes to Champions League Twenty20

After dragging on for 16 days, Champions League Twenty20 came to an end and Chennai Super Kings were crowned the champions at the end of it all and rightly so. They were the only team to be undefeated throughout the tournament bar the super over finish

The games were one sided in most of the cases, mostly the matches that involved Central Districts, Guyana, and Wayamba. Although it's impossible to restructure the tournament in order to get the best teams in place to play each other, the management can certainly ensure that it is managed in a more proper manner

A few suggestions from my side would be as follows

* Freelancing should be prohibited by the boards and also the state associations. It is highly surprising as to how the management allows IPL teams to play the Champions League when the state associations play a T20 tournament in India. All other countries qualifiers come through a tournament organised by the board. If not taken care of, it would spiral into a huge crisis

Dwayne Bravo once (mis)quoted Trinidad had to be first, Mumbai Indians second and the West Indies third (in priority). Now once this kind of quotes come up it's pretty baffling but the same guy once quoted "It's not about the money and people don't really understand that. Yes, it's a good opportunity to make another set of income and it's nice. And it's a lot of money. But if we weren't playing for West Indies we wouldn't be identified by those teams"

Now since all of this seems to be pretty impossible, the recruits should not be allowed to play against teams they have already represented. An example in the case would be Dwayne Bravo, if Mumbai Indians played Victoria, should not be allowed to play

* Premier teams should not be allowed to go out in the first few times atleast. New South Wales, which was the champion team from the previous edition should have been provided a wild card entry and the maximum number of teams from a specific tournament should be restricted to only Two . If the same teams from the previous edition qualify, they should play a round-robin amongst themselves if placed below the top two . The winner and runner-up qualify for the main draw. Even the wild-card entrants are placed in the round-robin league

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