Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Foreign Players in SLPL 2011

2011 Sri Lankan Premier League is the first edition of domestic cricket competition of Sri Lanka which will take place on 19 July and continues up to 4 August. Many foreign players are invited to take part in this competition such as from Australia, India, etc.

Foreign Players in SLPL 2011


Teams of SLPL 2011 include Kandurata, Basnahira, Ruhuna, Uthura, Nagenahira, Wayamba and Uva. Sri Lanka cricket board will select the players for each team of Sri Lanka Premier League 2011. All the teams of it will contain 16 to 18 players. SLPC national selection committee has chosen the foreign players for various teams on the basis of requirement of each team. More than 30 international players will be seen in SLPL 2011. 24 matches will be played by these seven teams on R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

List of foreign players in SLPL 2011:

India: Umesh Yadav, Irfan Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Praveen Kumar, Ravindra Jadeja, Paul Valthaty, Vinay Kumar, Saurabh Tiwary, Manoj Tiwary, Manish Pandey, Ravichandran Ashwin, Munaf Patel
West Indies: Kieron Pollard, Darren Bravo, Chris Gayle, Danza Hyatt
South Africa: Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Herschelle Gibbs, Makhaya Ntini, Albie Morkel
Pakistan: Shoaib Akhtar, Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz, Imran Nazir, Shahid Afridi, Umar Akmal
Australia: Shaun Tait, Daniel Christian, David Warner, Callum Ferguson
New Zealand: Daniel Vettori
Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal
Ireland: Kevin O'Brien

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