The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has finally issued NOCs (No-Objection Certificates) for their players to participate in the T10 League season 2 that has been scheduled to be played from 21 November to 2 December 2018.
In their press release, PCB stated, “The decision has been made after due diligence was carried out by the PCB in which the Board procured and processed detailed information from the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Emirates Cricket Board.”
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The PCB statement further added, “Furthermore the PCB’s own Anti-Corruption Unit also carried out a thorough review.”
Earlier, the new PCB chairman Ehsan Mani had refused to allow the Pakistan players to participate in the 2018 T10 league. At first, he wanted to be sure that the tournament was transparent and corruption free.
The recent press release stated, “As a consequence of this review, the PCB has decided to allow its players to take part in the upcoming T-10 League in UAE. Like the first edition PCB will send its own Integrity Officers to monitor the league.”
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The inaugural edition of T10 League was played between six teams in UAE in December 2017 and the tournament became successful after many big stars featured in that competition. Now, the T10 League season 2 is ready to kick-off with two more teams.
While Team Sri Lanka will not participate in the second edition, three new teams have been added in the tournament. These three new teams are Karachians, Rajputs and Northern Warriors. Other five participating teams are Kerala Kings, Maratha Arabians, Pakhtoons, Punjabi Legends and Bengal Tigers.
The team draft was completed in last month. Earlier, there was a mini-draft was organised on 24 July at Dubai where all the eight teams picked up their only icon player and four other players.
Here are the full squads of the eight teams
Kerala Kings: Eoin Morgan (Icon Player, Captain), Sohail Tanvir, Kieron Pollard, Paul Stirling, Dasun Shanaka, Chris Gayle, Junaid Khan, Sandeep Lamichhane, Tom Curran, Fabian Allen, Niroshan Dickwella, Imran Nazir, Benny Howell
Maratha Arabians: Rashid Khan (Icon Player), Kamran Akmal, Alex Hales, Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Lasith Malinga, Liam Livingstone, James Vince, Brendan Taylor, Adam Lyth, Roelof van der Merwe, Najibullah Zadran, Richard Gleeson
Pakhtoons: Shahid Afridi (Icon Player, Captain), Mohammad Irfan, Liam Dawson, Colin Ingram, David Willey, Colin Munro, Andre Fletcher, Sohail Khan, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Chadwick Walton, Shapoor Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Cameron Delport
Punjabi Legends: Shoaib Malik (Icon Player, Captain), Chris Jordan, Luke Ronchi, Liam Plunkett, Evin Lewis, Mohammad Sami, Zahir Khan, Umar Akmal, Mitchell McClenaghan, Tom Moores, Anwar Ali, Jade Dernbach, Hasan Khan
Karachians: Shane Watson (Icon Player), Anton Devcich, Ben Laughlin, Jofra Archer, Colin de Grandhomme, Ben Cutting, Mohammad Nawaz, Dawid Malan, Fawad Ahmed, Isuru Udana, Joe Clarke, Samiullah Shenwari, Mohammad Irfan
Bengal Tigers: Sunil Narine (Icon Player), Jason Roy, Asif Ali, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Sam Billings, Morne Morkel, Aamer Yamin, Mohammad Nabi, Kusal Perera, Sherfane Rutherford, Kevon Cooper, Rayad Emrit, Ali Khan
Northern Warriors: Darren Sammy (Icon Player), Wahab Riaz, Nicolas Pooran, Andre Russell, Dwayne Smith, Ravi Bopara, Rovman Powell, Harry Gurney, Chris Green, Obed McCoy, Lendl Simmons, Khary Pierre, Kennar Lewis
Rajputs: Brendon McCullum (Icon Player), Chris Lynn, Rilee Rossouw, Mohammad Shahzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Tymal Mills, Carlos Brathwaite, Rahat Ali, Samit Patel, Qais Ahmad, Ben Dunk, Shan Masood, Peter Trego
