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Lets discuss and predict the winner for this new version of league  T10 from 14 - 24 November, 2019 Zayed Cricket Stadium Abu Dhabi

Nice umer,

It would be great if you can add some info such as background, points system, rules, any international players participating or not etc etc.

Some might find this useful.

The Abu Dhabi T10 League is perhaps the only truly global league among all the franchise cricket tournaments. There is no restriction regarding the overseas players and the teams are free to select anyone regardless of their nationality. Among the players, I could find representation from a huge number of countries, including England, South Africa, Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, UAE, West Indies, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, USA, Ireland, Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Scotland.etc.

However it is sad that the BCCI is preventing Indian players from taking part. Only a few retired players are allowed to participate (Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Pravin Tambe.etc).

For this all Matches going to be played on Sheikh Zayed Stadium Abu Dhabi here is complete Schedule of first round
Fri Nov 15(10ovs)   Arabians v Warriors
Fri Nov 15(10ovs)   Gladiators v Delhi Bulls
Fri Nov 15(10ovs)   Qalandars v Abu Dhabi
Sat Nov 16(10ovs)   Bangla Tiger v Gladiators
Sat Nov 16(10ovs)   Delhi Bulls v Tuskers
Sat Nov 16(10ovs)   Warriors v Qalandars
Sun Nov 17(10ovs)   Warriors v Abu Dhabi
Sun Nov 17(10ovs)   Bangla Tiger v Tuskers
Sun Nov 17(10ovs)   Arabians v Qalandars
Mon Nov 18(10ovs)   Gladiators v Tuskers
Mon Nov 18(10ovs)   Arabians v Abu Dhabi
Mon Nov 18(10ovs)   Bangla Tiger v Delhi Bulls

In my country, I can say there is no interest in Cricket sports. Therefore, it is very difficult to find a live broadcast about this sport. Is there any way to watch these matches without being bound to any legal limits?

Excited about this T-10 format. Never saw any of these matches before which is why this will be an interesting watch for me. Wonder why the BCCI is restricting Indian players from taking part in this league though. Good stuff op.

You could probably subscribe to sports channels like Star Sports etc where these matches can be viewed live. Apps like Hotstar also are useful here. You could always watch the highlights through Youtube etc.

I was checking the entire team and i see some interesting players in all the teams and Shahid Afridi and Imran Nazir in one time and they could smash the ball a long way and Chris Gayle and ABD is missing but the rest of the T20 players who play in all the major leagues are playing in this series too.
Rashid Khan is missing in the line up because of international duties if not it would be interesting how he bowls in this format and how the players are going to deal with his tight line and length.

BCCI only allows it's player to play in tournaments, where they have a financial benefits or motive. If this tournament is a success, I am sure they will replicate in Indian and start another league.

Hotstar is the best option to watch cricket matches, almost all major cricket tournaments are streamed on that platform. It is also cheap as compared to others.

Yes, all of the players are international and this is going to be an interesting series. Below is the squad of 8 teams participating.

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After seeing this list, my interest has dropped considerably since this mostly caters to Pakistani audience. Was expecting many more popular international players to be involved here, but I am pretty disappointed.

Watson, Afridi, Amir, Zaheer, Morgan etc are the few appealing ones in my opinion. Will be skipping this one. I do hope there will be more T-10 style tournaments in the future though.

Finally this has been made as an international league with players from every cricket team getting placed on different teams. Morever more teams seems to represent India and few teams representing Arabian teams. Possibly this will take cricket matches to be played more commonly as the time decreases a lot than a ODI or test matches. Also this serves as a platform to identify more talents.

Tomorrow onwards we have daily 3 matches in t10 league, iam really excited how world class players are going to play t10 matches and what will be high score?. There is any player can make century? And more thinking  are going in my mind.

There are teams that are named after Indian states (Maratha Arabians, Deccan Gladiators, Delhi Bulls, Karnataka Tuskers.etc), but very few Indians are participating in this tournament. The BCCI has banned the participation of Indian players in foreign leagues, which I find very hard to digest. They could at least permit the domestic players to participate in these leagues. For players such as Shahbaz Ahmed, Jay Bista and Siddhesh Lad, tournaments such as this one can beneficial in both financial and skill-learning terms.

Most of the entertainment in the cricket is due to Pakistan and Indian cricketers. The matches are held is AbuDubai so you will expect a lot of Asian players to play there. This is a very short version of the game and it will be very entertaining. I think you should not miss this one.

LOL.. the Arabs don't play cricket. I still remember the 1996 World cup, in which the United Arab Emirates sent a team. Their captain was an Arab (Sultan Zarawani). There was another Arab in the team (Saeed al Saffar), and I think that was the last time UAE had any Arabs in their team. Nowadays their team is 100% composed of expats (Indians, Sri Lankans, Pakistanis.etc).

By the way which country do you belong ?
You can watch all the matches live on facebook page Sports corner. https://web.facebook.com/Sports-corner-392210851640221/
I will be watching these matches online on facebook also.

Most of the Arab never do any work and therefore they do not play too. They always outsource people for everything and same is the case with their own team.  Also only they have the money to attract the players around the world to come in their country to play cricket.

Money can buy the players but not the talent and patriotism and therefore we will never see UAE team grow.

Arabs have the money and they can conduct tournaments and there is nothing wrong in that and they are trying to change their view of dictator rule and i think so is the reason they are conducting many tournaments including UFC and boxing events.

People should consider any sport as a profession and anyone could hire these professionals if they are available. The choice of playing for their country or getting hired to play for another country depends on individual choice and if they are so talented they would get selected in the national team and people who does not have a place usually look for other opportunities.

I have seen countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia competing in Olympics and World Cup with squads made of expatriates. In most cases, athletes from Asian and African countries agree to represent these nations in exchange for a monetary reward. I was always surprised to see these Arab nations sending predominantly African squads for Olympics.

To their credit, the Arabs have spent a lot of money in building infrastructure for cricket. Especially in the United Arab Emirates, they have built so many stadiums and training facilities, which benefits cricketers from all over the world. The recently concluded 2019 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier was conducted in the United Arab Emirates, because none of the other countries could host such a big event.

What a proformans by Andre Russell he takes two wickets and scored 58 runs in 24 ball with player of the match.

Now I am waiting for next match between Deccan gladiator vs Delhi bull already toss happened Deccan gladiator going to bat first and I hope Delhi going to rock today.

Great start by Deccan Gladiators, but Ravi Rampaul is bowling really tight and both Shane Watson and Anton Devcich are struggling to score runs against him. If Delhi Bulls wants to win this match, then they should restrict the Deccan Gladiators within the 100-110 range. Anything more than that, it is going to be tough. The Deccan Gladiators have some very good bowlers, such as Fawad Ahmed and Zahir Khan.

If i am the team owner in this format, i would look for three hard hitting batsman and fill the team with bowlers with different variation as the batsman are swinging from the start and the run rate is around 10 and the with all these tournaments the bowlers will have their confidence and morale trashed but less work load and good money and hence we might not see much injury.

Somehow Deccan Gladiators have managed to score 102 with the scoring of 57 runs by Watson and Devcich. Probably this match will be quite interesting as Delhi Bulls have got batting line up till the last order. With Deccan Gladiators there is good bowling, and in most of the matches if Watson performs good in batting he does the same in bowling. Let's wait and see who's gonna change the match.

Delhi Bulls have David Willey and Eoin Morgan and if they strike like crazy then they will win the match and Eoin Morgan is in good form too as he played some good innings against New Zealand in the recent T20 series and he is the main player to take the Bulls home.

Edit: David Willey gone after smashing two sixes, this is an interesting format.

I am afraid that 102 is not enough in this format. Anything less than 120 is going to be vulnerable. I felt that both Shane Watson and Anton Devcich were a bit too cautious. They should have gone harder at the Delhi Bulls bowlers as they still had 9 wickets in hand. Both of them struggled against medium pace of Ravi Rampaul (9 runs conceded in 12 balls).

As expected Eoin Morgan smashed everyone around the ground and they just need 5 runs to win from the last over, i doubt they can loose from this position as they have plenty of wickets left and except for Zahir Khan who took three wickets everyone went for runs.
First ball was a dot ball but then Mathews smashed the next ball for a boundary and the match is almost over.
Need to find a legit streaming source to watch the match if anyone can guide me that would be helpful.

Well.... I thought that they were going to lose. After 5 overs, they were around 35 and the required run rate had climbed to 14 runs per over. However the over bowled by Mason crane changed everything, as he conceded 19 runs. Deccan Gladiators lacked someone like Ravi Rampaul in their bowling attack, who could bowl a few dot balls and bring down the run rate.

Haven't come across any of the sports channels telecasting the ads about the league. I believe the broadcasting right might not be given to any of the channels as it seems to be a trial for the T10 league. Upon the support and the view it has got through internet sources and different applications maybe the channels can be given call for broadcasting rights.

We had a good first day of T10 tournament yesterday and the best match was a tie between Team Abu Dhabi and Qalandars. We have seen teams scoring around 100 find it difficult to defend. I think 120+ would be the save score batting first. Anything under 100 will not be sufficient in this tournament where the batsmen has all the freedom to play shots.

I have lot of these queries. Here is the complete list of channels where you can watch these matches live.

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In T10 league all teams are scoring 100+ runs and some of the team chase the 100+ runs so what you think about that and  how it is going to change players mind set to playing T10 game.

The major effect of T10 would’ve seen is in T20 as you would have more and more players to go after bowlers and make 200+ runs in 20 overs with an average of 10 runs per over and this would make bowlers life more difficult and vulnerable.

It's surely a batsmen format. Only the bowlers that can turn the bowl and not allow the batsmen to hit large would prevail while there are no chances for the bowlers that can't.
This format would mostly not use the total number of players to the fullest. If they really want to show a high scoring games, they should make a 6 players team.

If you are batting first, then a minimum of 100 runs are needed to have a good chance of winning the game. A total between 100-120 would give you a 50/50 chance of winning the game. If the total is above 120, then the fielding side is at a disadvantage. And that means that the side batting first needs to score a minimum of 10 runs per over.

And it is not easy to score 10-12 runs per over on a consistent basis. Especially when the rules say that the pacers are still allowed to bowl one bouncer per over. A minimum of 2 boundaries needs to be scored per over to reach the target, and it is going to be very difficult against some of the line-and-length bowlers such as Ravi Rampaul and Shapoor Zadran. A single dot ball can build the pressure to unsustainable levels.

Scoring 100 or more with the first 10 overs is followed by every cricket playing country/team in any given format(except test cricket), what makes this tournament is the chasing ability of any team batting second. There fore the second half of T20 and T10 is more exciting than the first half.

If you remember before the introduction of T20, 250+ score was considered good in 50 overs cricket. But after the introduction of 20 Overs cricket, the average score in 50 over cricket increased to 300+ runs. Same will happen after this T10 tournaments gets popularity. Currently 150-170 is considered a good score in T20, We may see this number goes up to 190-220 runs.

Scoring 100 runs in 10 overs is entertaining to watch for the viewers and the crowd. The more overs are less in a cricket match, the more it favors the batsmen. At same time, it is nightmare for the bowlers because everyone is looking to hit every ball and there is no respect for the good balls. Bowlers have left with a little role in T10 tournament.

Just check the standings after 2 days of the tournament.

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The problem is that the bowlers have not adjusted with this format yet. Bowlers can have a big role in T10, but they need to adjust their bowling accordingly. And the only player who had done that till now is Ravi Rampaul. These are his bowling figures for the three T10 matches which he played so far this season:

2-0-9-0 vs Deccan Gladiators
2-0-16-2 vs Karnataka Tuskers
2-0-13-2 vs Bangla Tigers

Total of 6-0-38-4

These figures would be considered exceptional even for T20 format and we need to remember here that he had achieved this in T10.

Till date the table looks like a random luck as a few balls could decide wining or losing than the team as a whole. Most of the time, half of the team has no contribution than fielding and sometimes a fielder can finish the match even without touching the ball.
Though the game would surely develop new batting and bowling skills as batsmen would devise new ways to hit the boundary while bowler would test their temper and on not letting the batsmen score.

Earlier the batsman needs some time to settle in the crease and if you are playing these matches there is no time to settle as you need to hit the ball from the first ball and it is not that easy and as a batsman you need to have a different mentality and bowlers will get frustrated but if you are bowling smartly mixing slow balls and varying pace then you can beat the batsman too, i saw today's match but the ground is almost empty and i do not understand how the organizers will recover the money they spent.

Match between Bangla Tigers and Team Abu Dhabi ongoing right now. I thought that BT would make 150 plus, but a miserly spell by Ben Laughlin wrecked their innings (2-0-12-2). West Indian players are dominating this match as well, with Andre Fletcher getting to a quick-fire 42 from just 16 balls. Earlier it was the turn of Nicholas Pooran, who scored 56 from 25 for the Northern Warriors.

I saw some clips in youtube and watching a match is like watching highlights and it is really fun, since the tournament is organized with the help of Emirates Cricket Board and they will be having a lot of money and television rights is always the lucrative deal in any sports, not sure how much they are able to get for the broadcasting rights, if not for profit you will not see this league continuing further and if i am not wrong this is the third edition.

Just because the Emirates cricket board is a cash rich body, that doesn't mean that they'll continue to support loss making ventures. In the past, they have pulled out of many such partnerships. An example is the National Cricket Stadium in Tangier (Morocco). Also, it is not certain for how long Abdul Rahman Bukhatir will remain as the head of the Emirates Cricket Board. He is quite generous in giving handouts to those boards which are struggling financially. But there is no guarantee that his successor will follow the same policy.

T20 leagues are not always profit making propositions. For example, the Global T20 Canada is rumored to have caused huge losses for both the Canadian cricket board and the franchise owners. And from what I have heard, the Mzansi Super League of South Africa is also running at a loss. T20 leagues are propping up all over the world, but you can't expect all of them to be profitable like the Indian Premier League or the Big Bash League. IN countries where the population is low (such as West Indies and New Zealand), it is going to be difficult.

I think very difficultly to predict the t10 matches because the match result can change any single over and I have predicted more than 10 matches but the result is  6-L 4-W few matches I lose just in final two over.

Yes, this is the 3rd edition of this tournament but this is still not so popular league like many others. I think 10 overs a side is not an interesting format and hence people show not much interest in it.



Its a big gamble to predict these matches as no one knows who will win the match. A strong team can also lose the match because of so much less overs. You need more luck and less skills to win these short format matches

The main reason is the saturation of tournaments and leagues around the world, IPL started this frenzy and India is a cricket crazy nation and you will find audience for majority of the sporting events and if there are more leagues and if you expect audience to turn out for every match then you might get disappointing, and may be these countries are trying to come up with T20 leagues to replicate the football leagues around the world :D.

Actually it was Subhash Chandra of the Essel Group who came up with the idea of franchise based T20 league in India. He came up with the Indian Cricket League in 2007, despite stiff opposition by the N Srinivasan led BCCI. However when the invention became a successful one, the BCCI stole his idea and came up with their own league (the Indian Premier League).

Sri Lanka tried a similar T20 franchise tournament and it flopped. In the end the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) blamed the failure on the BCCI, claiming that the ban on Indian players from taking part in the foreign T20 leagues was the reason behind the failure. South Africa was toying with the idea for several years, before they came up with the Mzansi Super League. And it also ended up in loss. Canada's Global T20 was also a failure in financial terms. And the Euro T20 Slam was cancelled even before a single match was played.

Yes, that's true. When we talk of the league gaining such a big popularity is all because of the BCCI. If this was being conducted by the Essel Group under Subash Chandra it might have not been this successful. Also the league will be of unfamiliar faces, and the popular faces wouldn't have participated. In some perspective it is truly a stolen idea, but the success happened as it got stolen.

The BCCI is more like an old school body, which has historically opposed new innovations in cricket. When the T20 format was first introduced, the BCCI opposed it to the tooth and nail. Another example is regarding the Umpire Decision Review System (DRS). The BCCI was probably the only board to oppose the DRS. And we have to remember that BCCI is the reason why cricket remains excluded from international sports competitions such as the Asian Games, Olympics and the Commonwealth games.

There is a long story behind the creation of the ICL by Subhash Chandra.

Subhash Chandra initially bid for the broadcasting rights of Indian matches. But the bid of his channel (Zee Sports) was thrown out, despite their bid amount being the highest. The BCCI added a few unfair clauses, which disqualified all the channels except Star Sports. It was rumored that Rupert Murdoch paid a huge amount to the BCCI president (N Srinivasan) in bribes. On top of that Murdoch was favored by the then ruling party (Congress) which benefited from the propaganda unleashed by his news channel (NDTV).

In response Subhash Chandra came up with his own T20 league (ICL) and the BCCI retaliated by banning all the players who were associated with the league. They even made it very difficult to stage the matches in India. Supported by the ruling party, they made most of the cricket grounds unavailable for the tournament. After the first edition, there were plans to expand the league by adding 8 new teams. But once BCCI came up with their own league, ICL fell in to oblivion.

As we approach near the knockout stages of this league, here is the latest standing of all the teams.

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^^^ They have an eliminator/qualifier system for the playoffs and that means that the bottom ranked teams such as the Delhi Bulls and the Karnataka Tuskers are out of the tournament. Tomorrow the Maratha Arabians will take on the Qalandars for the first qualifier and Bangla Tigers will be playing against Deccan Gladiators in the first eliminator.

The following 4 teams has qualified.
MARATHA ARABIANS
QALANDARS
DECCAN GLADIATORS
BANGLA TIGERS

I am supporting QALANDARS because that's reminds me of Lahore Qalandars, although Qalandars did lost in Qualifier 1.  Eliminator 1 is in progress and this tournament is now headed towards its knockout and final stage.

^^^ Yeah... Qalandars had a bad day today... but you can't blame them. For the Maratha Arabians, both Chris Lynn and Adam Lyth have been in top form throughout the tournament and today also they scored 95 runs in between them. But little known Jordan Clark surprised everyone with a 4-wicket haul for the Qalandars. In reply the Qalandars failed to build partnerships and lost the match by 7 runs.

BTW, Deccan Gladiators looks all set to win the eliminator match.

Qalandars lost both the knockout matches today and therefore they will play for the 3rd place tomorrow with Bangla Tigers. I never expected that they will lose both matches as they finished up 2nd in the group stages.
Also the finals of this league will be played tomorrow and that will make our Sunday full of enjoyment.  :)

That's never expected losing both the knockout matches. If they've lost the match scoring less than 100 it can be said as the players aren't good. They came close reaching 112, but some mistakes in between doesn't let them reach the target. Anyhow tomorrow isn't gonna be a complete fun. If it's an ODI then the entire day goes off. Now it is just one percent of the time consumed.

They could have easily won the first match, but both their opening batsmen wasted a number of balls (Luke Ronchi and Dawid Malan) and in the end Laurie Evans and Phil Salt tried a lot, but by then the required rate had climbed too high. During the second match, it was almost a repeat of the first match. Once again Dawid Malan struggled initially and wasted balls.

Anyway.. the tournament ends for the Qalandars and hopefully they will return for the next year's edition with renewed vigor and power.

The final will take place in about 12 hours from now, between Deccan Gladiators and Maratha Arabians. Both of the teams are very strong in batting (Mohammad Shahzad/Shane Watson for the Deccan Gladiators, and Chris Lynn/Adam Lyth for the Maratha Arabians). So I guess the outcome will be more dependent on the performance of the bowlers.

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Whom do you think are more favorites of the two ?

I would go with the Deccan Gladiators. They seems to be the more balanced side out of the two, with more experience when compared to the Maratha Arabians. They have the perfect opening pair (Watson and Shahzad), strong middle order (Pollard/Cutting/Lawrence), and the best pace (Cottrell/Zahoor) and spin (Fawad) bowling options. The Maratha Arabians are heavily dependent on a few individual players.

Before the finals, we are about to start the 3rd and 4th place match between Bangla Tigers and Qalandars. Qalandars had a very bad day yesterday and i am hoping that they win this 3rd position match. They truly deserve it as per their previous performance in this tournament.

Look like that Bangla tigers will win this match and gain the 3rd position. Although qalandars batted very well, but score between 100-120 is not a match winning score in T10. The luck did not favor them today also.

Edit: Tigers win. Looking forward to the final now.

Qalandars lost their third match in a row to finish at the 4th place. For the 3rd place playoff, they lost yet another close match to the Bangla Tigers. To be frank, although the scorecard would imply that it was a close match, in reality it was a one-sided affair. Andre Fletcher and Rilee Rossouw blasted around 75 runs from the first 6 overs and the match was very much over by then.

I was expecting the Deccan Gladiators to win the final, but their much hyped batting failed and they could manage only 87/8. Lasith Malinga once again showed his class, but he was ably supported by the other pacers as well (McClenaghan, Rajitha, Bravo.etc). It was surprising to see the Maratha Arabians going with an all-pace attack in such a short format. But in the end, it worked for them.

But Maratha Arabians won the series, because of Deccan Gladiators has not got a good start with their opener's and middle-order batting line-up collapsed so they have given the target of 88 runs to Maratha Arabians, it was too easy to chase for Maratha Arabians and they did.

Pathetic batting display by the Deccan Gladiators. I expected a lot from them, given the recent form of Mohammad Shahzad, Shane Watson and Kieron Pollard. But McClenaghan and Malinga put them in pressure from the start. They could manage only 87 runs and it is never going to be enough in T10 format. In the end, the final turned out to be very lop-sided. 

Deccan Gladiators made a mess out of it and it turned out to be the most boring and disappointed final. I was not favoring any team but i did wanted to see a close final and it was one of the most boring match of the tournament. Having the low score to chase Maratha Arabians started fearlessly and easily managed to chase the target in just 7 overs.

The match was essentially lost during the first 3-4 overs, when the Deccan Gladiators run rate dipped to unsustainable levels. After 4 overs, the DG total was 27/3 and by then their three most important batsmen were back in pavilion (Pollard, Shahzad and Watson). Bhanuka Rajapaksa hit a few big boundaries.. but he didn't got as much strike as he wanted.