Know it all about Legends League Cricket 2022, Season 2: Squads, Matches, Draft, Venues

Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan (PC: Twitter)

Legends League Cricket will return for the second season this time around, with four teams contesting to earn the title. Each team can have 18-25 players in the squad, with a minimum necessity of six Indians forming the core.

All the teams had 8 Crores as their overall budget for the chance to pick from 79 former cricketers who enrolled themselves in the draft. However, only 59 of them got selected in the first round, with teams having a few more days to fill the remaining slots in their squad using the purse available.

Virender Sehwag will lead Gujarat Giants owned by Adani Group, Gautam Gambhir will be in charge of India Capitals owned by GMR Group, whereas Harbhajan Singh will lead the Manipal Tigers owned by Manipal Education & Medical Group (MEMG) and final team Bhilwara Kings owned by LNJ Bhilwara Group will be captained by former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan.

League will be conducted from 16th September to 8th October with 16 matches to be held across six cities, i.e. Kolkata, Lucknow, New Delhi, Cuttack, Jodhpur, and one undecided venue for the final stage will see legends of the game going head-to-head against each other.

Full Squads for Legends League Cricket

Gujarat Giants: Virender Sehwag (Captain), Parthiv Patel, Elton Chigumbura, Chris Tremlett, Richard Levi, Kevin O’Brien, Stuart Binny, Mitchell Mcclenaghan, Lendl Simmons, Manvinder Bisla, Ajantha Mendis, Graeme Swann, Joginder Sharma, Ashoke Dinda, Daniel Vettori

India Capitals: Gautam Gambhir (Captain), Ravi Bopara, Farveez Maharoof, Mitchell Johnson, Jacques Kallis, Rajat Bhatia, Liam Plunkett, Asghar Afghan, Denesh Ramdin, Pravin Tambe, Pankaj Singh, Ross Taylor, Prosper Utseya, John Mooney, Mashrafe Mortaza, Hamilton Masakadza

Manipal Tigers: Harbhajan Singh (Captain), Brett Lee, Andrew Flintoff, Vrv Singh Parvinder Awana, Mohammad Kaif, Phil Mustard, Muttiah Muralitharan, Reetinder Sodhi, Romesh Kaluwitharana, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Lance Klusener, Ryan Sidebottom

Bhilwara Kings: Irfan Pathan (Captain), Yusuf Pathan, Sudeep Tyagi, Tino Best, Owais Shah, Tim Bresnan, William Porterfield, Naman Ojha, Monty Panesar, Shane Watson, Sreesanth, Nick Compton, Matt Prior, Samit Patel, Fidel Edwards

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