Virender Sehwag will return to cricket after being named as an icon along with Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi, New Zealand’s Bendon McCullum for the second edition of the T10 League, slated to begin from November 23.
The 2018 edition has got the sanction of ICC and is licensed by ECB, and will held over 10 days as compared to the four-day event in 2017.
Sehwag and Afridi were part of the previous edition also when the former Indian opener was out for a duck off Afridi’s bowling, making him the first cricketer to claim a hat-trick in 10-over cricket. Sehwag was the leader of Maratha Arabians in the last edition.
To meet this new challenge and also to keep the event clean, the T10 League management has made many positive changes such as shortlisting an experienced CEO, forming a new governing council, appointing umpires from the ICC panel and getting a global auditing firm.
T10 League have also appointed Roshan Mahanama and Wasim Akram as Head of the Technical Committee and Director of Talent Hunt programme respectively.
Eight teams -- Kerala Kings, Punjab Legends, Maratha Arabians, Bengal Tigers, The Karachians, Rajputs, Northern Warriors and Pakhtoons -- have been drawn into two groups to fight it out in the event to be held at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium from November 23 to December 2.
This year, two teams -- The Karachians and Northern Warriors -- have been added to the list of the earlier six teams.
The T10 League will showcase some of the most popular cricket stars, such as Shane Watson, Shahid Afridi, Eoin Morgan, Rasheed Khan, Shoaib Malik, Sunil Narine, Darren Sammy, among many others.