ICL 20’s World Series from Nov 23

The Indian Cricket League has announced the team composition for ‘ICL 20’s World Series. Inzaman-ul-Haq will lead ICL Pakistan and Chris Harris will lead the ICL World team. ICL Bangladesh will be lead by Habibul Bashar and R. Sathish will lead ICL India.

ICL announced its team composition for the ICL 20s Word Series that kick starts from November 23. The tournament features four teams which take on each other, once in a round robin format, followed by a final between the two top standing teams.

Inzaman-ul-Haq will lead the formidable ICL Pakistani team, while Chris Harris will lead a galaxy of international stalwarts representing ICL World, Habibul Bashar will lead the ICL Bangladesh and R. Sathish will lead the young talented ICL India. This premium ICL tournament features the top performing players from a talent pool of over 150 domestic and international players, in the recently concluded ICL 20s Indian Championship.

ICL Executive Board Member, Kiran More said, "The ICL 20s World Series was conceptualised in ICL season-1, with the primary objective of giving exposure to our domestic talent to the next level of international competition. The last ICL 20s World Series was a fairytale story and extremely gratifying on a personal level with the ICL-India team taking top honors. This time around, with the additional team from Bangladesh, a resurgent and determined ICL Pakistani and much stronger ICL-World; offers the stiffest challenge ever faced by the young ICL–India team".

The tournament offers a prize money corpus of Rs. 2.74 crores. Winners of this tournament stand to gain Rs 1.25 crore and Runner-up will cash in Rs 75 lakh. The financial incentive for every win at the league stage will be a handsome Rs 10 lakh while the Man of the Match will cash in Rs 2 lakh. The centre of action for the ICL 20s World Series will be ICL's sparkling new facility, Sardar Patel Stadium, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad.