T20 Mumbai League: Triumph Knights net Suryakumar Yadav, Sobo Mumbai Falcons bag Shreyas Iyer
Suryakumar Yadav and Shreyas Iyer
MUMBAI: Triumph Knights Mumbai Northeast bagged India's T20 captain and Mumbai Indians star
Suryakumar Yadav
, while Sobo Mumbai Falcons were allotted Punjab Kings captain
Shreyas Iyer
in the 'Icon Players' draft' of the
T20 Mumbai League
on Friday.
Amongst the other India players allotted to the eight teams as Icon players, Chennai Super Kings star Shivam Dube went to ARCS Andheri, Kolkata Knight Riders captain
Ajinkya Rahane
was allotted to Namo Bandra Blasters, Lucknow Super Giants seam bowling allrounder Shardul Thakur went to Eagle Thane Strikers, Sarfaraz Khan was allotted to Aakash Tigers Mumbai Western Suburbs, Prithvi Shaw was allotted to North Mumbai Panthers, while India pacer Tushar Deshpande went to Mumbai South Central Maratha Royals.
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Mumbai Cricket Association
president Ajinkya Naik informed the media here that the city's cricket greats Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar would be associated with the league. India's Test & ODI captain Rohit Sharma is the brand ambassador of the league. TOI had reported on April 29 that legendary allrounder Kapil Dev will be the brand ambassador of Sobo Mumbai Falcons.
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The players' auction will be held on May 7, and will be telecast live, along with all the matches of the league. The League will be held from May 26 to June 8 at the
Wankhede Stadium
. The MCA has asked all its India players to feature in the league. Only those players who are picked for India's tour of England this summer for a five-Test series, the India A tour of England or out injured will be allowed to skip the league.
'The Indian players from Mumbai have agreed to participate in the T20 Mumbai League, which will bring a lot of inspiration and energy to our emerging players to prove themselves on the larger platform,' MCA president Ajinkya Naik told reporters.
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'The eight teams will shortlist the players along with those who are in our system from the senior selection committee, U-23 and U-19 teams for the auction. The pool will be of around 400 players. But it will be important to have one player at least from U-19 in the playing XI and the squad strength will be of 18 players,' he added.
'We will tie up with a ticketing partner to handle ticket sales in the league,' T20 Mumbai governing council chairman Vihang Sarnaik said.
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