Former Indian cricketers and World Cup heroes Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, and Harbhajan Singh will be among a host of stars from the India Maharaja team, that will participate in the much-awaited inaugural edition of the Legends League Cricket (LLC).
The first edition of the Legends League Cricket (LLC) will be played at the Al Amerat Cricket Stadium in Oman among three power-packed teams and will start from January 20.
For the unversed, LLC is a professional cricket league for retired international cricketers. Apart from the India Maharaja team, there will be two more teams, that would be representing Asia and the rest of the world.
Apart from the aforementioned trio, India Maharaja team will also have Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Badrinath, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Naman Ojha, Manpreet Gony, Hemang Badani, Venugopal Rao, Munaf Patel, Sanjay Bangar, Nayan Mongia and Amit Bhandari.
Meanwhile, talking about the Indian legends coming back into the league, former India head coach and commissioner of Legends League Cricket Ravi Shastri said:
“Like true Kings, they will come, they would see and they would conquer. The Cricket Maharajas from India are coming together to take on the battle against the other two top teams from Asia and rest of the World,”
He added:
“It would be the mother of all rivalries when Sehwag, Yuvraj, Bhajji play against Afridi, Murali, Chaminda, Shoaib, this will be a blast from the past for the fans,”
The Asia team is called Asia Lions, which includes some of the former Pakistan and Sri Lankan legends Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Afridi, Sanath Jayasuriya, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kamran Akmal, Chaminda Vaas, Azhar Mahmood, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammed Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Mohammed Yousuf, Umar Gul, among others.
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