After a successful first edition of the Global T20 Canada in 2018, the second edition of the league will take place in Brampton, Ontario. In the first edition of the tournament, there were 5 teams included.
Instead of Cricket West Indies B Team, the sixth team in this year’s edition would be Brampton Wolves. Yuvraj Singh would be playing this year’s edition from India. Many top-quality cricketers would be playing this year’s T20 league.
Other top-quality players including Brendon McCullum, Shakib AL Hasan, Colin Munro will be taking part in the tournament during the 2nd edition. Yuvraj Singh and Manpreet Singh would be playing for the same team.
In the first edition of Global T20 league, Lendl Simmons finished as the top run-getter in the tournament with 321 runs from 8 matches (8 innings) with the best score of 66. In the bowling department, Sheldon Cottrell with 16 wickets from 8 matches ( 8 innings) with best figures of 4/19.
Vancouver Knights posted the highest total in the first edition of 231 for 6. All the matches in the first edition were played at King City.
The tournament is scheduled to start on 25th July. Vancouver Knights won the first edition in 2018. It promises to be an exciting tournament.
Here we look at the squads in Global T20 Canada 2019
Brampton Wolves
Shahid Afridi, Andre Fletcher, Shakib AL Hasan, Babar Hayat, Faisal Jamkhandi, Armaan Kapoor, Aabrash Khan, Zahoor Khan, Nitish Kumar, Colin Munro, George Munsey, Rohan Mustafa, Timil Patel, Wahab Riaz, Darren Sammy, Lendl Simmons, Nawab Singh
Edmonton Royals
Shahid Ahmadzai, Richie Berrington, Ben Cutting, Navneet Dhaliwal, Satsimranjit Dhindsa, Akash Gill, Davy Jacobs, Shahdab Khan, Ehsan Nawaz, Mohammad Nawaz, James Neesham, Kyle Phillip, Faf du Plessis, Anushman Rath, Sherfane Rutherford, Safyaan Sharif, Kane Williamson
Montreal Tigers
Fawad Alam, George Bailey, Kyle Coetzer, Matthew Cross, Ashton Deosammy, Niroshan Dickwella, Nikhil Dutta, Dillion Heyliger, Arslan Khan, Nizakat Khan, Sunil Narine, Mohammad Naveed, Yax Patel, Keemo Paul, Thisara Perera, Bhupinder Singh, Steven Taylor, Isuru Udana.
Toronto Nationals
Trent Boult, Manpreet Gony, Jeremy Gordon, Chris Green, Heinrich Klassen, Sandeep Lamichhane, Calum MacLeod, Brendon McCullum, Mark Montfort, Salman Nazar, Kieron Pollard, Ghulam Shabbir, Jaspdeep Singh, Ravinderpal Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Chirag Suri, Rodrigo Thomas.
Yuvraj Singh works one away © Getty Images
Vancouver Knights
Rizwan Cheema, Chris Gayle, Ali Khan, Shoaib Malik, Matthew Nandu, Rayyan Pathan, Michael Rippon, Andre Russell, Daniel Sams, JJ Smith, Tim Southee, Harsh Thaker, Rassie Van der Dussen, Tobias Visee, Hayden Walsh Jr., Chadwick Walton, Saad Bin Zafar.
Winnipeg Hawks
Umar Akmal, Shaiman Anwar, Dwayne Bravo, JP Duminy, Rayad Emrit, Romesh Eranga, Umair Ghani, Sana Kaleem, Sompal Kami, Chris Lynn, Varun Sehdev, Rameez Shahzad, Dwayne Smith, Sunny Sohal, Hamza Tariq, Paul van Meekeren, Najibullah Zadran.
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