Know Celebrity Cricket League, the amalgamation of cinema and cricket

New Delhi: The season four of the Celebrity Cricket League came to an end with the final, between Karnataka Bulldozers and Kerala Strikers on 23 February.The highlight of the match was a century by skipper of Bangalore Rajeev , who scored 112 from 42 balls with 12 boundaries and 7 sixes. Dhruv Sharma, who gave a good standing for Rajeev scored 56 runs from 41 balls with 6 boundaries.The duo scored 168 runs from 83 balls with 18 boundaries and 7 sixes.Anyway lets know more about CCL.The Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) is a non-professional cricket league, contested by eight teams consisting of film actors from eight major regional film industries of Indian cinema. The league commenced in 2011. It is for the first time that the two most keenly followed subjects namely cinema and cricket were combined into one. Various stars from the various regional film industries joined the league. The first season of CCL had 4 teams whereas the fourth season had eight teams which contested for the CCL trophy. The rise in the number of the teams participating in CCL clearly goes on to show that the league had achieved popularity with every passing season .The second season had many highlights which include organizing CCL match out of India in Sharjah. The main face of the League is bollywood hunk Salman Khan whose brother Sohail Khan is the owner of Mumbai Heroes Team. The second season had two new cricket teams, the Kerala Strikers and the Bengal Tigers.The inaugural season of CCL was won by Chennai Rhinos who were also the champions in the second season. The Third Season had two new teams, Veer Marathi representing the Marathi Film Industry and Bhojpuri Dabbangs representing the Bhojpuri Film Industry. Chennai Rhinos could not complete the hat-trick of winning the CCL and the Karnataka Bulldozers were the new champions of CCL in 2013.