Mumbai,
Aug 20
The Indian Cricket League (ICL) on Monday unveiled a
list of players on its side that included Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq,
Mohammad Yousuf, Imran Farhat and Abdul Razzaq, South Africans
Lance Klusener and Nicky Boje, and 45 Indian players.
These
players would comprise six squads of 15 players each, where each
squad would comprise six international players and nine Indian
players.
Indian
players who would now play for the ICL are JP Yadav, Deep Dasgupta,
Dinesh Mongia and Reetinder Sodhi.
The
list of the players was unveiled here at a function where Kapil
Dev, chairman of the ICL executive board, Sandeep Patil, Kiran
More and EAS Prasanna were present.
Youngsters
Ambati Rayudu and Abhishek Jhunjhunwala have also signed with
the league.
"I
think this is the cream of the country," Kapil Dev said,
and encouraged more youngsters to take such a 'courageous' decision
and join the league since the BCCI-the Indian Cricket Board, has
decided to ban all those who would be associating themselves with
the league.
The
ICL that boasts of former West Indian Skipper Brian Lara on its
side introduced Mongia with the league.
Mongia,
who was part of the Indian squad in the recent Bangladesh tour,
said that he has joined the league, as he wants to play cricket.
"I
play cricket wherever I can, in England, for Punjab, for India.
This is another opportunity to play cricket," Mongia added.
The
ICL envisages expanding the number of squads to 12 in the next
three years, and also admitted to be in negotiation with Shane
Warne, Glen Macgrath and Chris Cairns.
The
Indian players who have signed up include:
Dinesh
Mongia, JP Yadav, Deep Dasgupta, Dheeraj Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu,
Abbas Ali, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Avinash Yadav, Reetinder Sodhi,
Hemanth Kumar, Inder Shekar Reddy, Ishan Malhatra, Kaushik Reddy,
Laxmi Shukla, Manish Sharma, Mohammad Ibrahim, Monish Mishra,
Robin Morris, Alfred Absolem, Ali Murtaza, Shashank Nag, Shibsagar
Singh, Abhijit Shetye, Devendran, Sumit Kalia, Dakshinamoorthy
Kumaran, Taduri Prakash Sudhindra, Sarabjit Singh, Thirunavakarasu
Kumaran, Ganapathi Vignesh, Devishetty Vinay Kumar, Yashpal Singh,
J Hariesh, R Satish, Rajesh Sharma, Ranjeet Khirid, , Sachin Talpade,
Shalabh Srivastava, Shreyas Khanolkar, Subhojit Paul, Sumit Kalia,
Subhomoy Das, Raviraj Patil. |