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Monday, 14 August 2006, 10:20 GMT 11:20 UK

Sharjah plans Twenty20 tournament

Sharjah stadium Desert venue Sharjah could host a Twenty20 club championship early next year, say organisers.

Between 1984 and 2003, the United Arab Emirates hosted 198 full one-day internationals but hectic schedules have since stopped teams playing there.

"We want to have international cricket again at our ground," said Sharjah stadium official Zahid Noorani.

"We will invite the champion Twenty20 teams from Test-playing nations in January before the World Cup."

India are the only Test-playing country that does not have a domestic Twenty20 champion but there are plans to launch their first tournament just after the 2007 World Cup.

"I can understand why everyone's enjoying it so much"
Justin Langer on Twenty20

This weekend saw Leicestershire crowned champions for the second time in England and Guyana win the inaugural Stanford 20-20 title in the West Indies.

Leicester hosted a tournament billed as the International 20:20 Club Championship last year, with Pakistan's Faisalabad Wolves beating sides from Sri Lanka, South Africa and England.

And the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship for international teams will take place in South Africa in September 2007.

Meanwhile, the Twenty20 format has been given a ringing endorsement by Aussie star Justin Langer, who was the English county tournament's top scorer with 464 runs for Somerset in the group stages.

"I was very sceptical when I arrived, but that's simply because I'd never played," he told The Wisden Cricketer.

"Now, however, I can understand why everyone's enjoying it so much.

"It's entertaining, it's much more tactical than you think and, as a batsman, you've still got to practice your same basic technique."



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