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India’s rebel cricket league, ICL has recently announced the names of the players and coaches of the six participating teams of its inaugural Twenty20 tournament. ICL’s first Twenty20 tournament will begin from 30 November. The teams are named after six major cities in India. Each team includes 18 players from both home and abroad.

The names of the teams are Chandigarh Lions, Mumbai Champs, Kolkata Tigers, Delhi Jets, Chennai Superstars and Hyderabad Heroes. A former cricketer is involved as coach in every each of the participating team. Three former Indian cricketers- Sandeep Patil, Madan Lal and Balwinder Sandhu will serve as coach along with Australia’s Michael Bevan, South Africa’s Darryl Cullinan and Pakistan’s Moin Khan.

ICL chairman Kapil Dev has said that all the teams are balanced. A handful of local cricketers will participate along with some of the star cricketers of world cricket. ICL ahs not been approved by BCCI yet. Rather, BCCI has already taken an initiative to launch a similar tournament named IPL as a competitor of ICL. Now, let us see if BCCI can outperform ICL with IPL.

 
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Rediff