Legends T-20 League ensures monetary safety to gamers post-retirement, says Pragyan Ojha

Former India left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha mentioned the Legends T-20 Cricket League, which began on Saturday, can be an ideal platform for all those that have stop aggressive cricket to remain linked with the game and do what they love probably the most – enjoying on the market on the sphere.

“It is like a second career and this League also ensures some sort of financial security to the players post-retirement,” Ojha, who might be representing Urbanrisers Hyderabad within the LCL, knowledgeable on the unveiling of the staff jersey by movie star Daggubati Venkatesh right here.

For his half, New Zealand’s just-retired hard-hitting batter Martin Guptill additionally felt that the League supplied a wonderful alternative to maintain enjoying in a distinct form of environment.

The Hyderabad franchisee, which is able to play its first match on November 21, led by former India star Suresh Raina and coached by Nikhil Chopra, additionally has gamers like Dwayne Smith, Peter Trego, Chama Kapugedera and Stuart Binny in its ranks.

Nikhil Chopra mentioned they’d like to entertain, play the sport within the true spirit and clearly go on to win the trophy. “It should be an exciting League and not only for those into mid-40s. There are many who have just recently quit the sport and superfit to unleash those big sixes and face very strong and fit pace attacks. We are all looking forward to it,” he mentioned.

Manoj Namburu, CMD of Urbanrise, mentioned they’d to get entangled in sport and extra so in cricket to make sure that increasingly more children take to sport in an enormous manner.

“It was disheartening to see so many kids getting addicted to electronic gadgets and confined indoors. We just want to be part of any initiative which reverses this trend. And, I am sure my franchisee will win the trophy and that will be a big advertisement to our objective,” Manoj mentioned.

J.C. Pavan, co-owner, mentioned that their staff had the most important pool of 21 gamers, together with 10 internationals and 11 India gamers in the complete league they usually have been happy to have native contact by means of Ojha, T. Suman and pacer Sudeep Tyagi.

Interestingly, Hyderabad is not going to host any matches within the coming version as the entire idea is to organise these League matches in Tier-II cities the place the group response had been typically very excessive.

Film star Venkatesh mentioned it was nice to see a franchisee with a neighborhood contact within the league and wished the staff would return dwelling with the trophy.