Former West Indies players are looking forward to taking part in the upcoming Road Safety World Series which they refer to as a “good tournament”. In the opening match of the Road Safety World Series, former India players will take on West Indies Legends on March 7. However, Pedro Collins praised both the greats of the game – Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar saying that both the batsmen are ‘legends of the game’.
“It is fun while you want to play cricket and win… It is going to be a good tournament,” Adam Sanford told ANI.
“It will be good to be on the field in front of a big crowd. I am looking to entertain and win games… Both of them are great batsmen and can win any game at any time. They are two legends of the game,” Collins said.
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Road Safety World Series consists of a five-nation T20 cricket tournament which will showcase some of the biggest names in cricket from India, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies, and South Africa as well. Players who will take part in this series include Tendulkar, Lara, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Brett Lee, Brad Hodge, Jonty Rhodes, Muttiah Muralitharan, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Ajantha Mendis and many more. Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar is the Commissioner of the Series too.
The main purpose of the Series is to create awareness about road safety and change the mindset of the people towards their behaviour on the roads as well. Moreover, Daren Ganga also admitted that they have a bigger goal to achieve through this Road Safety World Series.
“We play India in the very first game. So, we want to have an impact in the tournament. We are playing in conditions that we are very familiar with. Majority of players in this West Indies Legends had their chance of playing in India. So we know what the conditions are going to offer for us,” Ganga said.
“But in the real sense, it is not a highly competitive series, we have a bigger goal that we are trying to achieve which is creating awareness about road safety,” he concluded.
