Celebrity Cricket League, the annual tournament featuring film and TV celebrities from across the country, is set to return for its 11thedition. On October 23, the organizers took to social media to announce that the tournament will be back in exactly 100 days. January 31, 2025 is when the action will kick off. Schedules and final team line-ups are yet to be revealed, but this edition too will have 8 teams fighting it out for supremacy.
Last year, for only the second time since the Celebrity Cricket League was established, a team from north India took home the trophy. While the Mumbai Heroes won it once and the Bhojpuri Dabanggs came tantalisingly close, it was the underdogs Bengal Tigers that emerged victorious in 2024, beating a spirited Karnataka Bulldozers. In fact, prior to the start of the tournament, CCL founder Vishnu Induri had expressed hopes that a team from the north would win and named the Bengal Tigers as his personal favourite to win.
The 2025 edition will be telecast across 8 TV channels, it was announced. The streaming partner is likely to be JioCinema, as was the case in 2024. There are 16 group stage matches, following which the top 4 teams head into qualifier matches. The top 2 play the first qualifier, followed by an eliminator between team 3 and 4. The loser of the qualifier gets another shot at playing in the final, in the second qualifier, where the team will face the winner of the eliminator. The final will then be played between the winners of Qualifier 1 and 2.
Kiccha Sudeep and the other team captains at the official announcement of CCL Season 11
Last year, owing to issues with stadium availability, matches were played in Sharjah, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Chandigargh and Vizag only.
