REUTERS, SOUTHAMPTON- Middlesex beat Kent in Saturday's Twenty20 Cup final but both teams kept alive hopes of picking up a first prize of 2.5 million pounds in this year's inaugural Champions League.

Owais Shah took the man of the match award for a whirlwind 35-ball 75 as Middlesex (187-6) beat Kent (184-5) by three runs in a nerve-tingling final played under lights at Hampshire's Rose Bowl ground.

Earlier, Kent (173-7) defeated Essex (159-8) by 14 runs before Middlesex (141-2) overcame a Durham (138-6) side containing South Africa's Shaun Pollock and Shivnarine Chanderpaul of West Indies by eight wickets in the day's second semi-final.

Interest was heightened in the tournament because of the new eight-team Champions League to be staged in India or the Middle East in September or October featuring the Twenty20 finalists from India, Australia, South Africa and England.

American billionaire Allen Stanford also said on Friday that England's Twenty20 Cup winners would be invited to play against his All-Star XI, the England national team and Trinidad & Tobago in another lucrative tournament in Antigua in October.

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