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Sharjah, August 7 2018<\/span><\/b>: T10 League organisers today announced that International Cricket Council (ICC) has officially sanctioned the second season of T10 League to be held from\u00a0November 23 2018<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in Sharjah. The apex body\u2019s validation comes as a shot in the arm for the league that will have two new teams making them to a strong eight teams and a ten-day long season.<\/span><\/p>\n T10 League is the evolution of cricket, from 50-over games to 10-over games. ICC, last season, had approved the organisers of running the first 10 overs format league in the world. Local and international players remain the main attraction of this league. Eoin Morgan-led Kerala Kings won the inaugural edition last year.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis sanction from ICC for T10 League gives our partners, stakeholders and more importantly the players a much-needed boost. Having said that, it additionally gives us responsibility to ensure we keep growing year-on-year and make this format globally acceptable,\u201d said Shaji Ul Mulk, Chairman, T10 League.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe shared the vision and belief of the organisers in this format. From here on, it is important to grow the league and the format and ensure that players, teams and the fans get an experience to remember,\u201d said Zayed Abbas, Board Member and Official Spokesperson, Emirates Cricket Board.<\/span><\/p>\n The second edition of the tournament will be a 10-day cricket extravaganza starting\u00a0November 23<\/span><\/span>\u00a0with the player draft slated in September. Afghanistan spin wizard Rashid Khan (Maratha Arabians), Pakistan\u2019s Shahid Afridi (Pakhtoons) and Shoaib Malik (Punjabi Legends), England\u2019s Eoin Morgan (Kerala Kings), New Zealand\u2019s Brendon McCullum (Rajputs), West Indies\u2019 Sunil Narine (Bengal Tigers) and Darren Sammy (Northern Warriors) and Australia\u2019s Shane Watson (Karachians) have already been roped in as Icon players for their respective franchisees.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe sanction from the ICC will only add further shine to the global appeal of the event. We believe that value creation for the new teams will see a positive growth from year one. From four-day league to a ten-day league with more teams and larger pool of international players is a testament of faith shown by fans and stakeholders,\u201d said Salman Iqbal, President, T10 League.<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sharjah, August 7 2018: T10 League organisers today announced that International Cricket Council (ICC) has officially sanctioned the second season of T10 League to be held from\u00a0November 23 2018\u00a0in Sharjah. The apex body\u2019s validation comes as a shot in the arm for the league that will have two new teams making them to a strong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}