SLC launch T10 League for both Men and Women

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By Amindha de Alwis

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) officially launched the ‘Lanka T10’; a franchise league set to be contested in a 10 overs per side format, at a media briefing held in Colombo on Sunday.

The tournament is to be conducted in Partnership with TTen Global Sports who launched the world’s first international T10 league in the UAE in 2017. A Sri Lankan side skippered by Dinesh Chandimal also took part in that inaugural edition.

The league, which presently goes as the Abu Dhabi T10, is gearing up for its sixth edition starting this week and has seen notable growth in viewership over the years.

Chairman of TTen Global Sports Shaji Ul Mulk revealed that the Lanka T10 will have both a Men’s and Women’s tournament held parallel to each other and teams will be allowed a maximum of six foreign player in their respective squads.

“The league is designed predominantly for the Sri Lankan Internationals and local players to play. We have a limit of six internationals in a squad of 16. The rest will be all local.”

“We are going to be doing a double event. This event will have a Women’s T10 and a Men’s T10 playing together in the same slot,” he said.

The league is expected to have six Men’s teams and four Women’s teams taking part in the inaugural edition, and is slated to be held in June, 2023 across 12 days.

However, CEO of SLC Ashley De Silva said the tournament would most likely be given a regular window in the month of December for future editions.

“The reason to play in the month of June is mainly due to the fact that the Lanka Premier League (LPL) got postponed. Otherwise it is being scheduled to be played in December every year. So we have reserved that window for the next 3-4 years to play the T10 in December and the LPL in August,” De Silva commented.

Details regarding the player draft for the tournament are to be announced in due course.

Photo: Former national captain Angelo Mathews, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Assistant Secretary Chryshantha Kapuwatte, Rajeev Khanna, COO of the TTen Global Sports, SLC Vice President Jayantha Dharmadasa, Shaji ul Malik, Chairman of the TTen Global Sports, SLC President Shammi Silva, SLC Secretary Mohan de Silva, SLC CEO Ashley de Silva and limited overs national captain Dasun Shanaka at the launch of the T10 league

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Sri Monday, 21 November 2022 07:56 AM

Cricket in whatever format must be kept among cricket playing countries. How could Dubai and other Middle Eastern cities become part of cricketing vocabulary. Desert Arab countries never had anything, they were not only very poor but their daily existence in 40’c heat was horrendous so they lived as normadic people travelling in the desert in camels. Their life suddenly transformed only in the last 60 years due to oil beneath their feet, even that they didn’t know until the Americans foolishly told them ‘ hey you have plenty oil below ground’. Once they got rich they started to buy people and influence the world . Millions would have been paid as bribes to International Cricket Council to bring cricket to completely alien UAE. We have to campaign to remove Cricket from the Middle East.

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Jude Monday, 21 November 2022 09:28 AM

We use to play 15 overs or 20 overs softball cricket in the backyard !! Now 10 overs a side League is making Mockery of the game of Cricket!! Huh!!

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Jude Monday, 21 November 2022 09:51 AM

Just to give you an idea how SLC lag behind other cricketing countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan without playing international games at home manage to organize T20 league cricket long before SLC entered the scene Huh!!

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Jude Monday, 21 November 2022 09:56 AM

I still can't believe how Ashley de Silva holding unto his job!! Maybe he's an Ace Suckker!! Yeah!! the English speaking Joes knows how to handle bookieeman, mudalali's sons and the Taxi Drivers Son!! Huh!!

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De Monday, 21 November 2022 10:01 AM

SLC dominated and run by De Silvas.

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R.M Monday, 21 November 2022 11:20 AM

When all other test cricket-playing countries with much higher populations have only between 6-12 first-class cricket teams, you have created 22 teams in Sri Lanka. With such a low level of first-class cricket, even T10 is too long for our cricketers. Make it a T5 (5 over) tournament. Hold this T5 Tournament every year in rich countries so that the entire Executive Committee of SLC can travel and have over one month's holiday in posh hotels as done during the recently concluded T20 World Cup in Australia spending millions of dollars when the majority of Sri Lankans are starving. Well done SLC.

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R.M Monday, 21 November 2022 11:20 AM

When all other test cricket-playing countries with much higher populations have only between 6-12 first-class cricket teams, you have created 22 teams in Sri Lanka. With such a low level of first-class cricket, even T10 is too long for our cricketers. Make it a T5 (5 over) tournament. Hold this T5 Tournament every year in rich countries so that the entire Executive Committee of SLC can travel and have over one month's holiday in posh hotels as done during the recently concluded T20 World Cup in Australia spending millions of dollars when the majority of Sri Lankans are starving. Well done SLC.

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Wije Monday, 21 November 2022 02:10 PM

Team members , captains , coaches

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cricketer Monday, 21 November 2022 06:40 PM

All league cricket in the Indian subcontinet such as Lanka Premier League, Pakistan Premier League Bangladesh Premier League etc. are organised and run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Sixty per.cent of the income earned by the ICC comes from BOCCI who subsidise these countries.

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