Virender Sehwag Appointed as the Icon for T10 League, Season 2 at UAE

The Sultan of Multan Virender Sehwag might have not been active on-field playing cricket for a while now, but there’s a lot on his plate. Apart from his stint with commentary, Sehwag is also the mentor of the IPL cricket team Kings XI Punjab. Now, he has been appointed as the icon for T10 league which features 8 teams. Each match is played for 10 overs and features 100 international players and is played in UAE.

Virender Sehwag took to Twitter to share the happy news with his fans. “It gives me immense pleasure to be the league icon of the most innovative format in world cricket, @t10leaguetweets led by its visionary @chairmanmulk,” he tweeted.

The tournament features teams like Pakhtoon, Karachians, Rajputs, Kerala Kings, Maratha Arabians, Northern Warriors, Bengal Tigers and Punjabi Legends. The matches will begin from November 23- December 2, 2018. The Kerala Kings recently signed Daniel Vettori as their head coach for the upcoming season.

Here teams for all the squads:

Maratha Arabians

Rashid Khan (icon), James Faulkner, Alex Hales, Dwayne Bravo, Kamran Akmal, Lasith Malinga, James Vince, Liam Livingstone, Brendan Taylor, Adam Lyth, Roelof can der Merwe, Najibullah Zadran, Richard Gleeson

Pakhtoons

Shahid Afridi (icon), Colin Ingram, David Willey, Mohammad Irfan, Liam Dawson, Colin Munro, Andre Fletcher, Sohail Khan, Shatrafuddin Ashraf, Chadwick Walton, Shapoor Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Cameron Delport

Bengal Tigers

Sunil Narine (icon), Jason Roy, Sam Billings, Asif Ali, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Morne Morkel, Aamir Yamin, Mohammad Nabi, Kusal Perera, Sherfane Rutherford, Kevon Cooper, Rayad Emrit, Ali Khan

Punjabi Legends

Shoaib Malik (icon), Evin Lewis, Chris Jordan, Luke Ronchi, Liam Plunkett, Mohammad Sami, Zahir Khan, Umar Akmal, Mitchell McClenaghan, Tom Moores, Anwar Ali, Jade Dernbach, Hassan Khan

Kerala Kings

Eoin Morgan (icon), Kieron Pollard, Sohail Tanvir, Paul Stirling, Dasun Shanaka, Chris Gayle, Junaid Khan, Sandeep Lamichhane, Tom Curran, Fabian Allen, Niroshan Dickwella, Imran Nazir, Benny Howell

Rajputs

Brendon McCullum (icon), Mohammad Hafeez, Rilee Rossouw, Chris Lynn, Mohammad Shahzad, Tymal Mills, Carlos Brathwaite, Rahat Ali, Samit Patel, Qais Ahmed, Ben Dunk, Shan Masood, Peter Trego

Northern Warriors

Darren Sammy (icon), Andre Russell, Dwayne Smith, Wahab Riaz, Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bopara, Rovman Powell, Harry Gurney, Chris Green, Obed McCoy, Lendl Simmons, Khary Pierre, Kennar Lewis

Karachians

Shane Watson (icon), Jofra Archer, Anton Devcich, Colin de Grandhomme, Ben Laughlin, Ben Cutting, Mohammad Nawaz, Dawid Malan, Fawad Ahmed, Isuru Adana, Joe Clarke, Samiullah Shenwari, Mohammad Irfan Jnr

The first edition of the tournament was played in 2017 at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. The league is not only approved the Emirates Cricket board but also, in August 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) officially sanctioned the league.

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