MUMBAI: Legendary batter Sachin Tendulkar shall be again in motion on a cricket discipline as he’ll characteristic within the inaugural Worldwide Masters League (IML), a six-team T20 competitors, to be held later this 12 months throughout three venues.
The IML can have gamers from India, Australia, South Africa, West Indies, England, and Sri Lanka and shall be performed in Mumbai, Lucknow and Raipur.
The T20 event, to be held yearly, is the brainchild of Tendulkar and former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, who can even be the league commissioner.
Tendulkar and Gavaskar will collaborate with PMG Sports activities and SPORTFIVE, a sports activities advertising firm, in establishing one other firm in India to stage the league, a launch stated.
Events taken with collaborating within the league by way of an possession of one of many franchise groups had been additionally invited to ship expression of curiosity.
“Within the final decade, T20 cricket has accelerated its adoption, and has drawn new followers into the sport. There’s now a powerful want amongst followers throughout ages, to re-witness age-old battles in newer codecs,” Tendulkar stated.
“Sportspersons by no means retire at coronary heart and the aggressive streak inside waits for a chance to get again on the sphere. We now have conceived the Worldwide Masters League as a gathering level of passionate followers and aggressive cricketers,” he added.
Gavaskar stated, “The Worldwide Masters League will convey followers nearer to the legends they’ve admired for years, providing one other golden probability to observe their heroes stay in motion.”
