ICL teams for second season Championship

New Delhi: The Indian Cricket League (ICL) second season is scheduled to take place from October 10.

The tournament has one new team -- The Dhaka Warriors in addition to the already eight teams.

Announcing the team composition, Kapil Dev, Chairman-Executive Board, ICL said, "The ICL sides have evolved over a period of one year fine tuning their team composition to display enough arsenal in every department of the game. In pursuit of the same objective, the ICL Executive Board, in consultation with the team coaches has announced a healthy addition to the talent pool. This comes along with a few strategic player transfers undertaken with the primary objective of optimum utilization of its player talent pool & strengthening the teams in all departments of the game."

The teams would be led by:

Ahmedabad Rockets by Damien Martyn

Chandigarh Lions by Chris Cairns

Chennai Superstars by Stuart Law

Delhi Giants by Marvan Atapattu

Dhaka Warriors by Habibul Bashar

Hyderabad Heroes by Chris Harris

Lahore Badshahs by Inzamam ul Haq

Mumbai Champs by Nathan Astle

Royal Bengal Tigers by Craig McMillan

ICL Season-2 will also witness the induction of new players (international & domestic) along with the strong fourteen member Dhaka Warriors side, strengthening the cricket talent pool in the ICL.

It will also see a couple of international players like Paul Nixon & Hamish Marshall making their returns on the ICL platform.

New players who have been inducted this season at ICL are-Hafiz Khaleel (Lahore Badshahs), Shahid Yousaf (Lahore Badshahs), Tahir Mahmood Mughal (Lahore Badshahs), Ryan Campbell (Ahmedabad Rockets) & Kuunall Lal (Ahmedabad Rockets), while players like Mornantau (Nantie) Hayward (from Royal Bengal Tigers) has been transferred to Chennai Superstars and Hasan Raza & Tofeeq Umer (both from Lahore Badhshas) have been transferred to Mumbai Champs team.

ICL aims to make it the most competitive domestic league in the country. It involves identifying talented young players from all over the country and providing them a platform to harness their skills.

Another forthcoming initiative will be to set up a nation-wide infrastructure (cricket academies) equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. These academies will be headed by coaches who have revolutionised the game.

The league began its foray into the cricketing world on November 30, 2007 with a Twenty20 tournament at Chandigarh. The six teams participated in the tournament were Mumbai Champs, Kolkata Tigers, Delhi Jets, Chennai Superstars, Chandigarh Lions and Hyderabad Heroes.