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The American Premier League is all set for its second edition, starting on December 19, Tuesday. Moosa Cricket Stadium in Texas will host all the games of the tournament.
Premium Americans, Premium Windees, Premium Paks, Premium Canadians, Premium Indians, Premium Afghans, and Premium Aussies are the seven participating teams in this year’s competition.
Afghans and Canadians are the new sides joining the other five sides from the previous campaign. Importantly, the second edition of the league has been sanctioned by the ICC, the apex cricket body.
Each team will play six games in the league phase in a single round-robin format with the top four teams making it to the semi-finals. The winners from the semi-finals will lock horns in the grand finale on Sunday, December 31.
All-rounder Dan Lawrence will take charge as Premium Americans’ captain while Sohail Tanvir will assume the captaincy duties of Premium Paks. Ihsanullah Janat is set to lead Premium Afghans, and Ben Cutting will lead the Premium Aussies side.
Chris Gayle, the dashing opener, will take on the captaincy role of the Premium Windies, while Premium Canadians will be captained by Navneet Dhaliwal. Meanwhile, Premium Indians will be led by Kenya’s Kewal Patel.
Premium Windies won the inaugural edition, defeating Premium Paks by seven wickets in September 2021.
Premium Indians all-rounder Rahkeem Cornwall ended the first edition as the leading run-scorer with 263 runs from five matches at an average of 65.75. Premium Paks pace bowling all-rounder Mario Lobban was the leading wicket-taker with 17 scalps from eight games.
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