Competitive cricket is all set to make a comeback in Australia with the Darwin T20 Cricket league. The competition will take place between June 6 and 8 with eight teams being a part of the league. Seven premier grade clubs and one invitational XI that will have players from the Northern Territory’s ‘Asia cup’ competition.
The last competitive cricket match that was played in Australia was on 13th March. The ODI between Australia and New Zealand was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 scare. Since then all cricketing activities have been postponed and the Darwin T20 Cricket League will mark the return of cricket in Australia.
There will be a total of 15 matches played in the T20 league at 3 stadiums which are Marrara Cricket Ground, Gardens Oval and Cazaly’s Oval. The matches will start at 10 am and 2:30 pm local time for three days.
Here are the names of 8 teams that will feature in the competition:
Invitational XI, Darwin XI, Palmerston, Sth Districts, Tracy Village, Waratah, Nightcliff, PINT.
The semifinals and the finals of the T20 league will be streamed live on MyCricket Facebook page to the audience all around the world.
Here is the full schedule of Darwin T20 Cricket League:
June 6, Saturday
Palmerston vs Darwin (5:30 am IST)
South Districts vs Tracy Village (5:30 am)
Waratah vs Nightcliff (5:30 am) (Live Streaming)
PINT vs Invitational XI (10 am) (Live Streaming)
Tracy Village vs Darwin (10 am)
Sth Districts vs Palmerston (10 am)
June 7, Sunday
Nightcliff vs Invitational XI (5:30 am)
South Districts vs Darwin (5:30 am) (Live Streaming)
PINT vs Waratah (5:30 am)
Palmerston vs Tracy Village (10 am) (Live Streaming)
PINT vs Nightcliff (10 am)
Waratah vs Invitational XI (10 am)
June 8, Monday
Semi-Final 1 (5:30 am) (Live Streaming)
Semi-Final 2 (5:30 am)
Final (10 am) (Live Streaming)
“It’s been a pretty tough couple of months for everyone around the world and we are hoping to bring some joy to the cricket community. “We are open-minded and are quite happy to be a test case for world cricket”, Northern Territory Joel Morrison Cricket chief executive was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.