The T10 League schedule for 2018 features twenty nine matches to be played between eight teams. The tournament would be played in the UAE from 21st November to 2nd December 2018. All matches would be 10 overs per side. All matches will be played in the Sharjah cricket stadium
Note: All match timings are in Pakistan Standard Time (PST)
Eight teams are participating in the T10 league 2018. These are:
Sindhis (formerly Sindhis)
Shane Watson (Captain), Anton Devcich, Ben Laughlin, Jofra Archer, Colin de Grandhomme, Ben Cutting, Mohammad Nawaz, Dawid Malan, Fawad Ahmed, Isuru Udana, Joe Clarke, Samiullah Shenwari, Mohammad Irfan, Denesh Ramdin, Ahmed Raza, Pravin Tambe, Ghulam Shabber, Thisara Perera
Rajputs
Brendon McCullum, Chris Lynn, Rilee Rossouw, Mohammad Shahzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Tymal Mills, Carlos Brathwaite, Rahat Ali, Samit Patel, Qais Ahmad, Ben Dunk, Shan Masood, Peter Trego Rohan Mustafa, Munaf Patel, Ashfaq Ahmed, Mohammad Amir, Laurie Evans, Oshane Thomas
Pakhtoons
Shahid Afridi (Captain), Mohammad Irfan, Liam Dawson, Colin Ingram, David Willey, Colin Munro, Andre Fletcher, Sohail Khan, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Chadwick Walton, Shapoor Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Cameron Delport, R. P. Singh, Muhammad Kaleem, Sher Walli
Kerala Kings
Eoin Morgan (Captain), Sohail Tanvir, Kieron Pollard, Paul Stirling, Dasun Shanaka, Chris Gayle, Junaid Khan, Sandeep Lamichhane, Tom Curran, Fabian Allen, Niroshan Dickwella, Imran Nazir, Benny Howell, Wayne Parnell, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Mohammad Naveed, Abdul Shakoor
Maratha Arabians
Rashid Khan, Kamran Akmal, Alex Hales, Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Lasith Malinga, Liam Livingstone, James Vince, Brendan Taylor, Adam Lyth, Roelof van der Merwe, Najibullah Zadran, Richard Gleeson, Hazratullah Zazai, Zahoor Khan, Subramaniam Badrinath, Amir Hayat
Punjabi legends
Chris Jordan, Luke Ronchi, Liam Plunkett, Evin Lewis, Mohammad Sami, Zahir Khan, Umar Akmal, Mitchell McClenaghan, Tom Moores, Anwar Ali, Jade Dernbach, Hasan Khan, Praveen Kumar, Shaiman Anwar, Sandy Singh
Note: Shoaib Malik has withdrawn from participating in the T10 Cricket League due to family commitments and won't be part of the Punjabi legends this season.
Bengal Tigers
Sam Billings (Captain), Sarfraz Ahmed, Sunil Narine, Tamim Iqbal, Jason Roy, Asif Ali, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Morne Morkel, Sherfane Rutherford, Kevon Cooper, Aamer Yamin, Mohammad Nabi, Kusal Perera, Rayad Emrit, Chirag Suri, Muhammad Usman, Luke Wright, Ali Khan, Zaheer Khan, Riki Wessels
Northern Warriors
Darren Sammy (Captain), Wahab Riaz, Nicolas Pooran, Andre Russell, Dwayne Smith, Ravi Bopara, Rovman Powell, Harry Gurney, Chris Green, Obed McCoy, Lendl Simmons, Khary Pierre, Kennar Lewis, Imran Haider, Amitoze Singh, Rahul Bhatia
The T10 league schedule consists of eight teams divided into two groups. The first edition of the tournament featured only six teams. These were:
Pakhtoons
Kerala Kings
Maratha Arabians
Punjabi Legends
Bengal Tigers
Team Sri Lanka
The 2018 edition will not feature Team Sri Lanka but three new teams have been added to tournament. These are:
Northern Warriors
Sindhis (or Sindhis)
Rajputs
The teams have been divided into two groups A and B which are as under:
Group A: Sindhis, Rajputs, Kerala Kings, Pakhtoons
Group B: Maratha Arabians, Punjabi Legends, Bengal Tigers, Northern Warriors
This is how the format has been designed for T10 league 2018:
The eight teams will compete with each other in a preliminary round. All teams will move on to the second round but the table toppers would have the benefit of playing weaker teams from the other group.
The team topping the table in Group A would play against Team 2,3 and 4 from group B.
The top teams from this ‘Super 8’ round would move on to the first semi final.
The team winning the semi final would qualify for the final.
The losing team , however, will get another go as they will take on the winner of the eliminator which will be played between Team 3 and Team 4.
Overall the format has been designed to have many permutations and combinations and with 10 over cricket being played on the ground, how the teams manage the points table would be an interesting watch throughout the tournament.
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