MUMBAI: Looks like cricket will hog the limelight the whole year. Soon after the World Cup and the fourth season of the IPL ends, the Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) that seeks to combine the two religions in India - Cricket and Cinema - would start in the first week of June.

For the first time in the country, CCL will create a platform where film fraternities of the South and Bollywood will battle each other to be one up on each other through cricket.

The first season of CCL will comprise four teams - Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film industries - playing six league matches culminating in an explosive final.

As a curtain raiser of the mega event, Bollywood XI and South Superstars XI will clash in a day and night encounter at VDCA cricket stadium in Vizag on 5 March.

While the Bollywood team (Mumbai Heroes) will be led by Sunil Shetty with Salman Khan as the icon player, the Kannada team will be led by Sudeep. Surya will lead the Tamil team and Venkatesh will be the skipper of the TeluguTeam.