MUMBAI: Yuvraj Singh, who recently announced his retirement from international cricket and the Indian Premier League, has been signed up by Toronto Nationals franchise for the Global T20 Canada 2019.
Apart from Toronto Nationals, the second edition of the Global T20 Canada will see five other teams, Vancouver Knights, Winnipeg Hawks, Edmonton Royals, Montreal Tigers and Brampton Wolves competing with each other. Manpreet Gony, the Punjab pacer, will also play alongside Yuvraj in a team which also includes star players like Brendon McCullum, Kieron Pollard and Trent Boult.
The other teams too have seasoned T20 players in their ranks including Sunil Narine and Thisara Perera (Montreal Tigers), Kane Williamson, Faf du Plessis and Ben Cutting (Edmonton Lions), Chris Gayle and Andre Russell (Vancouver Knights), Chris Lynn, JP Duminy and Dwayne Bravo (Winnipeg Hawks) and Darren Sammy, Shakib Al Hasan and Shahid Afridi (Brampton Wolves). The teams will be under the guidance of distinguished coaches like Tom Moody, Stephen Fleming, Geoff Lawson, Phil Simmons and Lalchand Rajput.
Toronto Nationals took to Twitter to make the announcement. The tweet from the official twitter account read: “For all #YuvrajSingh fans! ??
“#TorontoNationals get @YUVSTRONG12 for #GT2019.”
Having sought permission from the BCCI to participate in franchise T20 Leagues abroad, Yuvraj Singh’s signing for the Toronto Nationals was the biggest news to come out of the Global T20 Canada draft.
The signing is a big coup for Cricket Canada and the league’s backers, Mercuri group.
Singh’s name is also being linked to the Euro T20 Slam – hosted jointly by Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland – which will have its inaugural edition later in the summer.
The Global T20 will be hosted entirely at Brampton, Ontario, and run from 25 July to 11 August. The six teams will play a round-robin format followed by playoffs, comprising 22 matches in total.
Full squads and coaches:
Toronto Nationals
Yuvraj Singh, Brendon McCullum, Kieron Pollard, Trent Boult, Heinrick Klaasen, Manpreet Gony, Chris Green, Sandeep Lamichhane, Callum MacLeod, Chirag Suri, Ghulam Shabbir, Jasdeep Singh, Jeremy Gordon, Ravinderpal Singh, Salman Nazar, Mark Montford, Rodrigo Thomas
Coach: Geoff Lawson
Montreal Tigers
George Bailey, Thisara Perera, Sunil Narine, Fawad Ahmad, Isuru Udana, Niroshan Dickwella, Keemo Paul, Muhammed Naveed, Kyle Coetzer, Matthew Cross, Nizakat Khan, Steven Taylor, Dillon Heylinger, Nikhil Dutta, Bhupinder Singh, Arslan Khan, Yax Patel
Coach: Tom Moody
Edmonton Royals
Kane Williamson, Faf du Plessis, Ben Cutting, Shadab Khan, Muhammad Nawaz, Sherfane Rutherford, James Neesham, Safyaan Sharif, Anshuman Rath, Richie Berrington, Ehsan Nawaz, Kyle Fitzroy Phill, Davy Jacobs, Navneet Dhaliwal, Satsimranjit Dhinsa, Akash Gill, Shahzad Ahmadzai
Coach: Stephen Fleming
Vancouver Knights
Chris Gayle, Andre Russell, Shoaib Malik, Tim Southee, Rassie van der Dussen, Chadwick Walton, Daniel Sams, Hayden Walsh Jr, JJ Smit, Tobias Visee, Michael Rippon, Ali Khan, Saad Zafar, Rizwan Cheema, Rayaan Pathan, Harsh Thaker, Matthew Nandu
Coach: Donovan Miller
Winnipeg Hawks
Chris Lynn, JP Duminy, Dwayne (DJ) Bravo, Dwayne Smith, Umar Akmal, Rayad Emrit, Najibullah Zadran, Paul van Meekeren, Sompal Kami, Rameez Shahzad, Shaiman Anwar, Sunny Sohal, Hamza Tariq, Kaleem Sana-ur-Rehim, Umair Ghani, Romesh Eranga, Varun Sehdev
Coach: Lalchand Rajput
Brampton Wolves (New team)
Darren Sammy, Shakib Al Hasan, Colin Munro, Shahid Afridi, Wahab Riaz, Lendl Simmons, Andre Fletcher, Babar Hayat, George Munsey, Rohan Mustafa, Zahoor Khan, Timil Patel, Nitish Kumar, Abrash Khan, Armaan Kapoor, Faisal Jamkhandi, Nawab Singh
Coach: Phil Simmons
