Cricket legends to compete in UAE

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Cricket legends to compete in UAE. The UAE’s Masters Champions League (MCL) unveiled at the Burj Al Arab will feature cricket legends such as Brian Lara, Wasim Akram and Adam Gilchrist in a Twenty20 tournament. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00The UAE will host another major cricket event next year, as cricket legends from around

00:18the world gather for the Masters Champions League.

00:21Cricket legends including Brian Lara, Jack Callis and Adam Gilchrist will play in the

00:252020 tournament that will kick off in February.

00:28The three joined Pakistan great Waseem Akram, former Australia batsman Alan Border and ex-England

00:34captain Graham Gooch, who were members of the league's governing council during the

00:38Masters Champions League's launch at the Burj Al Arab.

00:41The cricket icons talked to the press about the tournament.

00:44It will be fun, it will be exciting and we were professional, we still are professional

00:48and by the time it starts we'll make sure we'll be physically and mentally, we'll give

00:53100% like Gillie mentioned and yeah, we're all looking forward to it, something very

00:57different I thought it will never happen, that we'll be asked to come and play a game

01:04but cricket that's the only thing we know.

01:06I think that as we see in T20 cricket now around the world that the top players make

01:11the adjustments and are successful in all formats, so you know it's going to be a challenge

01:20for those guys but I'm sure that they've observed enough T20 cricket to know how to go about

01:26it and what the game plans are and the ways to approach it so I'm sure they'll fit in

01:31and there'll be a place, there'll be room for all types of players.

01:34I think what you don't realise, the guy who's missing on the screen, Jack Cullis, you're

01:39going to have a lot of players like that, just recently retired and would have had a

01:43taste of T20 so you're not going to have that amount of players that have to make that move

01:48from playing test cricket or 50 over game and don't know what to do in the T20 version.

01:54I think we're going to have a lot of guys like Rickie Thorning or the old potential

01:57players in this league, Jai Wardiner, Sangakara, I'm just calling names, I'm not saying the

02:02sign up but those are the players that are most likely going to be very much attracted

02:05to playing in this league.

02:06The inaugural edition will see six teams with 15 members each, making a total of 90 players.

02:12Matches will be held at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Sharjah Cricket Stadium and

02:16Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

02:18The league is expected to run for more than two weeks.

02:21Irish Iden Belyaza for Golf News.

02:24www.globalonenessproject.org

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