European Cricket League is a new cricket league which has been initiated with a vision to popularise cricket across the World, especially Europe. The blitzkrieg event will be played in Spain between 29th July 29 to 31st July 31, 2019.
Eight teams have divided into two groups and will play each other with the top two sides from each group making it to the semi-finals. The European Cricket League (ECL) has adopted a T10 format, and will witness a total of 17 matches that will be played at the glorious La Manga Club with an opportunity for domestic champions of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia and Spain with a chance to be crowned the champions of Europe, or more famously as the league claims, Europe club cricket’s ‘Kings of Europe’.
European Cricket League-T10 will feature the following 8 teams:
Squads
Catalunya Cricket Club (Spain)
Nisar Ahmed, Yasir Ali, Malik Asghar, Ali Azam, Nadeem Hussain, Asim Javeed, Muhammad Khan, Saqib Latif, Muhammad Mughal, Hamza Nisar, Syed Rizvi, Kashif Shafi, Khurram Shahzad, Syed Sherazi, Rauf Zaman.
Cluj Cricket Club (Romania)
Var Sukhpal Gill, Iftikhar Ahmed, Muhammad Ahmed, Alexandru Andrei Alex, Claudiu Burburuz, Arun Chandrasekaran, Claudiu Valentin Clau, Marius Daniel Danny, Raluca Diana Dia, Suresh Reddy Elluri, Pavel Florin, Raluca Gandi, George Gheorghe, Dragosh Gherasim, Amitoz Gill, Satbir Gill, Satbir Singh Gill, Sheraz Gondal, Ameer Hamza, Dharmendra Manani, Gaurav Mishra, Satwik Nadigotla, Gaurav Narad, Sivakumar Periyalwar, Marc Pillich Wright, Rajendra Pisal, Rajendra Arjun Pisal, Sukhkaran Sahi, Vasu Saini, Sukharan Sangha, Karthigai Selvan, Taranjeet Singh, Mohamed Thajudeen, Viorel Elisei Vio.
Dreux Cricket Club (France)
Wahid Abdul, Sher Afridi, Safi Ahmadullah, Zahir Ammar, Muhammad Arif, Ijaz Bhatti, Muhammad Bhatti, Niaz Hamza, Afridi Ishaq, Naib Kamran, Ahmad Nabi, Rab Nawaz, Mohammad Nisar, Muhammad Noor, Gul Saeed, Mohammad Shahzeb, Afridi Yaseen, Gul Zahid.
JCC Brescia (Italy)
Zain Ul Abdeen, Rehman Abdul, Hassan Ahmad, Fiaz Ahmed, Zahid Cheema, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Jafri, Sibtul Mirza, Shahrukh Nawaz, Hamza Saad, Bachittar Singh, Ali Usman, Harsha Warnakulasuriya, Champika Wass, Ali Zahid.
SG Findorff (Germany)
Luqman Ahmad, Fakhar Ahmed, Farooq Amirie, Ahsan Ashraf, Shafqat Ashraf, Satar Darwesh, Aziz Dawodzy, Mohammad Jalil, Ammar Khalid, Iftikhar Khan, Israr Khan, Rashad Mehmood, Maroof Shah, Skander Shakar, Hamid Wardak.
St Petersburg Cricket Club (Russia)
Zabiulla Akbar, Gaurav Bhati, Aleksandr Bogatyrev, Vijay Gautam, Sambhav Jain, Fizul Khan, Lalit, Dinesh Lalwani, Rashid Mukhkhamed, Aman Saxena, Akashdeep Singh, Anil Singh, Rinku Singh, Talwinder Singh, Hrishiraj Talukdar, Aleksandr Vasilev.
Svanholm Cricket Club
Saif Ahmad, Toqeer Ahmad, Said Alam, James Fenwick, Abdul Hashmi, Jonas Henriksen, Mads Henriksen, Zeeshan Khan, Eugene Moleon, Saud Munir, Shuain Rashid, Asad Shah, Hamid Shah, Zishan Shah, Atta Ullah.
V.O.C. Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Davey Cohen, Mohammad Durrani, Scott Edwards, Pierce Fletcher, Bobby hanif, Tizo Moorman, Max O’Dowd, Corey Rutgers, Ashiqullah Said, Jelte Schoonheim, Pieter Seelaar, Ramdas Upadhyaya, Dirk Van Baren, Maarten Van Ierschot, Sebastiaan Van lent.
Fixtures for the European Cricket League 2019
Day 1 (29th July 2019)
GROUP A
V.O.C Rotterdam vs Dreux Cricket Club (12:30 PM IST)
Dreux Cricket Club vs Svanholm Cricket Club (04:30 PM IST)
V.O.C Rotterdam vs Cluj Cricket Club (08:30 PM IST)
GROUP B
Catalunya Cricket Club vs St. Petersburg Lions (02:30 PM IST)
JCC Brescia vs Catalunya Cricket Club (06:30 PM IST)
JCC Brescia vs SG Findorff (10:30 PM IST)
Day 2 (30th July 2019)
GROUP A
Cluj Cricket Club vs Dreux Cricket Club (12:30 PM IST)
Svanholm Cricket Club vs Cluj Cricket Club (04:30 PM IST)
V.O.C Rotterdam vs Svanholm Cricket Club (10:30 PM IST)
GROUP B
St. Petersburg Lions vs SG Findorff (02:30 PM IST)
JCC Brescia vs St. Petersburg Lions (06:30 PM IST)
SG Findorff vs Catalunya Cricket Club (08:30 PM IST)
Day 3 (31st July 2019)
Minor Play-offs
TBA 1 vs TBA 2 (12:30 PM IST)
TBA 1 vs TBA 2 (02:30 PM IST)
Semi-finals
TBA 1 vs TBA 2 (04:30 PM IST)
TBA 1 vs TBA 2 (06:30 PM IST)
Final
TBA 1 vs TBA 2 (09:30 PM IST)
Broadcast Details
European Cricket Network – Worldwide
FanCode / Dream11 – India
Dubai Sports Channel – All Middle East countries
Kwese Sports – All African countries
SportsMax Jamaica – Caribbean countries
Start TV Russia – Russia
SportDeutschland.TV – Germany
Freesports UK – UK and Ireland
Willow TV – Canada
TV3 Catalunya – Spain
l’Equipe France – France
Perform Group – Worldwide betting websites
Fox Sports – Australia
Sky Sports – New Zealand
Flo Sports – United States
The winner will be awarded a glorious trophy designed by Indian origin designer Sanjay Sharma.
