ILT20 Season 2: Warner, Shadab, Wood, Rayudu amongst high-profile abroad signings
Rayudu, who retired from all Indian cricket after IPL 2023 and is at present taking part in within the CPL, has been signed up by MI Emirates, whereas Martin Guptill and Maheesh Theekshana will play for Sharjah Warriors alongside Lewis Gregory.
Apart from Warner and Wood, Capitals have additionally signed up Andrew Tye, Dasun Shanaka, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sam Billings. Josh Little, Laurie Evans, Ravi Bopara and David Willey have been signed up by Abu Dhabi Knight Riders, whereas Mujeeb Ur Rahman, a part of Capitals final season, has moved to defending champions Gulf Giants. Qais Ahmed, in the meantime, has moved from Giants to Warriors.
Kusal Perera, Akeal Hosein and Corey Anderson have been drafted in by MI Emirates other than Rayudu. They have additionally acquired up and coming Sri Lanka thriller spinner Vijayakanth Viyaskanth.
USA’s Saurabh Netravalkar and Noshtush Kenjige have been picked by Giants and MI Emirates respectively, whereas Bas de Leede and Roelof van der Merwe are the 2 Netherlands gamers within the combine, as a part of Vipers and Capitals respectively. Scotland team-mates Chris Sole and Mark Watt might be a part of Warriors whereas Brandon McMullen is a part of Knight Riders.
The final stage of the squad-building course of will contain choosing the UAE gamers.
The second season of the ILT20 will run kind of concurrently with the second season of the SA20 league in South Africa, and can overlap with the BBL, too. That apart, there’s England’s five-Test tour of India beginning January 25, which might power gamers like Root and Wood to go away the ILT20 early.
The squads at this stage
Abu Dhabi Knight Riders
New signings: Brandon McMullen, David Willey, Jake Lintott, Josh Little, Laurie Evans, Michael Pepper, Ravi Bopara and Sam Hain
Retentions: Ali Khan, Andre Russell, Charith Asalanka, Joe Clarke, Sabir Ali, Sunil Narine, Marchant de Lange and Matiullah Khan
Desert Vipers
New signings: Adam Hose, Azam Khan, Bas de Leede, Michael Jones, Shadab Khan and Shaheen Shah Afridi
Retentions: Alex Hales, Ali Naseer, Colin Munro, Dinesh Chandimal, Gus Atkinson, Luke Wood, Matheesha Pathirana, Rohan Mustafa, Sheldon Cottrell, Sherfane Rutherford, Tom Curran and Wanindu Hasaranga
Dubai Capitals
New signings: Andrew Tye, Dasun Shanaka, David Warner, Mark Wood, Max Holden, Mohammad Mohsin, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Nuwan Thushara, Roelof van der Merwe, Sadeera Samarawickrama and Sam Billings
Retentions: Dushmantha Chameera, Joe Root, Raja Akif, Rovman Powell and Sikandar Raza
Gulf Giants
New signings: Dominic Drakes, Jordan Cox, Karim Janat, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Saurabh Netravalkar
Retentions: Aayan Afzal Khan, Carlos Brathwaite, Chris Jordan, Chris Lynn, Gerhard Erasmus, James Vince, Jamie Overton, Rehan Ahmed, Richard Gleeson, Sanchit Sharma and Shimron Hetmyer
MI Emirates
New signings: Akeal Hosein, Ambati Rayudu, Corey Anderson, Kusal Perera, Nosthush Kenjige, Odean Smith, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth and Waqar Salamkheil
Retentions: Andre Fletcher, Daniel Mousley, Dwayne Bravo, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Jordan Thompson, Kieron Pollard, McKenny Clarke, Muhammad Waseem, Nicholas Pooran, Trent Boult, Will Smeed and Zahoor Khan
Sharjah Warriors
New signings: Chris Sole, Daniel Sams, Dilshan Madhushanka, James Fuller, Johnson Charles, Kusal Mendis, Lewis Gregory, Maheesh Theekshana, Mark Watt, Martin Guptill, Sean Williams and Qais Ahmed
Retentions: Chris Woakes, Joe Denly, Junaid Siddique, Mark Deyal, Muhammad Jawadullah and Tom Kohler-Cadmore