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The second edition of the IPL-modelled Champions Boat League (CBL) will be held from September 4 to November 26 in 12 venues across five districts in Kerala, Tourism Minister PA Mohamed Riyas has said. The inaugural leg of the snake-boat races will be held at Punnamada Lake in Alappuzha alongside the iconic Nehru Trophy Boat Race on September 4.
Concluding with the famed President’s Trophy in Kollam on November 26, CBL-2 is being organised by Kerala Tourism as consecutive weekend events — after the inaugural at the sprawling Punnamada Lake. CBL-2, like its first edition held in 2019 on the lines of the Indian Premier League in cricket, will have half its legs in Alappuzha, two each in Kollam and Ernakulam, and one each in Thrissur and Kottayam.
“Besides, there will be an allied round, featuring a competition of small boats, at the Chaliyar river in Kozhikode,” said Riyas, who also unveiled the new jerseys of the nine CBL teams. The final will be held at the scenic Ashtamudi Lake.
CM to flag off event
The debut CBL edition, which was flagged off by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the presence of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar in August 2019, featured nine teams and carried prize money totalling ₹5.86 crore.
Snake boats compete in 5th leg of the Champions Boat League (CBL) organised by Kerala Tourism at Marine Drive in Kochi. (Thulasi Kakkat/The Hindu
Kerala has a string of local boat races, but the first among them to gain national notice was named Nehru Trophy Boat Race (NTBR). If NTBR subsequently earned Kerala international fame, CBL has further strengthened the State’s legacy of snake-boat races. Though conceived as an annual event, the CBL missed its 2020 and ’21 editions owing to the outbreak of Covid-19
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