In just over one month until the first \u2018Smartball\u2019 is bowled, and the first bat echoes its glorious crack across the Dubai International Stadium, the International League T20 has today, in conjunction with its six-franchises – Abu Dhabi Knight Riders, Desert Vipers, Dubai Capitals, Gulf Giants, MI Emirates and Sharjah Warriors – announced to the cricketing world the UAE players who will compete in the inaugural ILT20 from Friday, 13 January.<\/p>\n
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This announcement also firms-up the final teams leading into the league\u2019s inaugural edition.<\/p>\n
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With 24 coveted places available, comprising of four players per team and where at least two (players) will play in the starting XI of each side in each match, the much-anticipated announcement marks an incredible moment in Emirates Cricket\u2019s history as well as heralds a bright future for the Associate nation on their journey towards player development.<\/p>\n
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In exposing UAE\u2019s players to a world-class tournament in an event ratified by the ICC the induction of the players is inarguably a huge boost to Associate Cricket.<\/p>\n
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Mubashshir Usmani, General Secretary Emirates Cricket said, \u201cToday is an extremely rewarding day. We continue to reiterate that at its heart the league is built on a foundation of development for UAE Cricket and the UAE players.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTo be in the position to now share with the cricketing world that we have delivered on this mandate, with the support of and commitment from our franchises, that 24 of the best available UAE talent has been secured (by the franchises) is an incredible day for Emirates Cricket and the Board.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are delighted that alongside a number of capped players the performance and development teams identified a number of budding uncapped players from an exceptionally deep pool on offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
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UAE Players secured by ILT20\u2019s six franchises are<\/strong><\/p>\n Abu Dhabi Knight Riders;<\/p>\n Matiullah Khan<\/p>\n Fahad Nawaz<\/p>\n Sabir Ali<\/p>\n Zawar Farid<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Desert Vipers;<\/p>\n Rohan Mustafa<\/p>\n Sheraz Ahmad<\/p>\n Ali Naseer<\/p>\n Ronak Panoly<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dubai Capitals;<\/p>\n Hazrat Luqman<\/p>\n Chirag Suri<\/p>\n Jash Ginyani<\/p>\n Raja Akif Ullah Khan<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gulf Giants;<\/p>\n Aayan Khan<\/p>\n Sanchit Sharma<\/p>\n CP Rizwaan<\/p>\n Ashwanth Valthapa<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MI Emirates;<\/p>\n Muhammad Waseem<\/p>\n Basil Hameed<\/p>\n Vriitya Aravind<\/p>\n Zahoor Khan<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sharjah Warriors;<\/p>\n Karthik Meiyappan<\/p>\n Alishan Sharafu<\/p>\n Junaid Siddique<\/p>\n Muhammad Jawadullah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In just over one month until the first \u2018Smartball\u2019 is bowled, and the first bat echoes its glorious crack across the Dubai International Stadium, the International League T20 has today, in conjunction with its six-franchises – Abu Dhabi Knight Riders, Desert Vipers, Dubai Capitals, Gulf Giants, MI Emirates and Sharjah Warriors – announced to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}