In the Guardian, Barney Ronay rips into the Champions League in the weekly Spin His suggestions for a tagline for the tournament include: 'not as abysmal as you might have expected', 'not as abysmal as you might have expected' and 'a once-decent idea congealing before your eyes into a doomed curiosity'.

The CLT20 remains an unloved and unlovely thing, albeit a remarkable achievement in its own right as a cricket competition that manages to make even the cricket-obsessed, the cricket-compulsive, the cricket-crazed think to themselves, hmm, maybe there's just a bit too much cricket on at the moment.