Virender Sehwag, Yuvaraj Singh and
Harbhajan Singh will play for the India Maharaja team which will play in the
inaugural edition of the Legends League Cricket, starting on January 20. They
are among a host of former legends who will be playing in the LLC.
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The first season of the league, which is a
professional cricket league for retired international cricketers, will be
played at the Al Amerat Cricket Stadium in Oman among three power-packed teams.
The other two teams would be representing Asia and the Rest of the World.
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Apart from the famed trio, 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 will also be part of the India Maharaja team.
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“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,” former India coach and Commissioner of Legends League
Cricket Ravi Shastri was quoted as saying in a media release.
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“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,” he added.
The Asia team called the Asia Lions will be
comprised of former Pakistan and Sri Lankan legends Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid
Afridi, Sanath Jayasuriya, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kamran Akmal, Chaminda Vaas,
Romesh Kaluwitharana, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Azhar Mahmood, Upul Tharanga,
Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammed Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Mohammed Yousuf and Umar Gul.
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Former Afghan skipper Asghar Afghan will
also be a part of the team, while players representing the third team are yet
to be announced.
The tournament will start on January 20 and
it will continue with the fixtures till January 29.