Legends T20 Cricket league gets closer, Shane Warne books venues
A series of matches will be held around the world over a three-and-a-half-year period
Mumbai: The Legends T20 Cricket league, led from the front by cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne is slowly but surely gathering steam. In a latest development, Warne has booked three of the most famous baseball arenas in the United States - Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Yankee Stadium in New York and the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles - as venues for the T20 league matches.
According to a report in ‘Cricket.com.au’, the matches are scheduled to kick off in November this year, after the Major League Baseball season ends. "We're going to have Bollywood-theme nights and it's all shaping up pretty well. Myself and Sachin had an idea - why not take cricket to America and be the Harlem Globetrotters, go around and do free exhibitions at schools, help grow the game of cricket, in a country where there are already 45 teams in LA?" Warne told News Ltd.
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Reports doing the rounds have it that the Indian-Australian legend duo have offered 28 players, Brett Lee, Andrew Flintoff, Jacques Kallis, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Michael Vaughan, Sourav Ganguly, Mahela Jayawardene being among them, players contracts worth USD 25,000 a match for the proposed league.
Warne confirmed the story and a series of matches will be held around the world over a three-and-a-half-year period, with the US to host the first series in September.
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Tendulkar and Warne met ICC Chief Executive Dave Richardson earlier this month at the global body’s headquarters to discuss their idea. Warne established that they are looking forward to make ICC their official partners and also trying to involve the American Cricket Association for help.