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Top International Cricket Council [Images] elite panel umpires Simon Taufel of Australia [Images] and New Zealand's [Images] Gary Baxter will officiate in the final of the Champions League Twenty20 [Images] tournament to be played at Chennai's M Chidambaram Stadium on December 10.

India's S Venkatraghavan has been named as the match referee for the three matches to be held at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium on December 3, 4 and 5, less than a fortnight before the second and final India-England Test is played at the same venue, which is set to see Test cricket's return after 35 years.

Billy Bowden of New Zealand, ICC [Images] elite panel umpire Amish Sahiba of India and Marais Erasmus will officiate in all Mumbai matches, according to tournament Director Dhiraj Malhotra.

The two semi-finals will be supervised by Daryl Harper of Australia and Pakistan's Asad Rauf on December 8 (Bangalore) and Taufel and India's Shahvir Tarapore on December 9 (Chennai).

Kiwi Jeff Crowe has been appointed the match referee while Rauf, Harper and India's Suresh Shastri will be the three umpires for all Bangalore matches.

Sri Lanka's [Images] Roshan Mahanama will be the match referee, whereas Taufel, Baxter and Tarapore will be the umpires for all the matches in Chennai.

Eight teams, including IPL champions and runners-up Rajasthan Royals [Images] and Chennai Super Kings [Images], Western Australia Warriors and Victoria Bushrangers, South Africa [Images] T20 Champions Titans and runners-up Dolphins, along with the T20 champions of Pakistan and England [Images] -- Sialkot Stallions and Middlesex -- will take part in the December 3-10 tournament.

Schedule:

December 3: Group A - Middlesex v Victoria, Mumbai
 
December 3: Group B - Dolphins v Rajasthan Royals, Bangalore
 
December 4: Group B - Sialkot Stallions v Western Australia, Bangalore
 
December 4: Group A - Chennai Super Kings v Victoria, Mumbai
 
December 5: Group A - Middlesex v Titans, Chennai
 
December 5: Group B - Rajasthan Royals v Sialkot Stallions, Mumbai
 
December 6: Group B - Dolphins v Western Australia, Bangalore
 
December 6: Group A - Titans v Victoria, Chennai
 
December 6: Group A - Chennai Super Kings v Middlesex, Chennai
 
December 7: Group B - Dolphins v Sialkot Stallions, Bangalore
 
December 7: Group B - Rajasthan Royals v Western Australia, Chennai
 
December 7: Group A - Chennai Super Kings v Titans, Chennai
 
December 8: 1st Semi-Final, Bangalore

December 9: 2nd Semi-Final, Chennai

December 10: Final, Chennai