The Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation introduced their newest T20 match, the KSCA Maharaja T20 Trophy, earlier this month, which will likely be held from August 7 to August 26, and the participant draft was held on July 30 on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
The competitors will exchange the Karnataka Premier League (KPL), which ran for eight seasons till 2019 earlier than a match-fixing and betting scandal pressured the organisers to place a halt to the match. The revamped competitors will characteristic six groups – Shivamogga Strikers, Mysore Warriors, Hubli Tigers, Mangalore United, Gulbarga Mystics, and Kalyani Bangalore Blasters.
Coming to the gamers’ draft, there have been 4 swimming pools of gamers to select from – Category A (India and IPL gamers), Class B (senior state), Class C (U-25, U-23, and U-19), and Class D (the remainder). The likes of Manish Pandey, Okay. Gowtham, Karun Nair, Devdutt Padikkal, and Abhimanyu Mithun have been a few of the high-profile gamers who have been slotted by the franchises by way of the draft.
Right here’s how the squads stack up after participant draft
Shivamogga Strikers
Head coach: Nikhil Haldipur
Class A: Okay Gowtham, KC Carriapa
Class B: Rohan Kadam, KV Siddhartha, Darshan MB, Stalin Hoover
Class C: Avinash D, Smaran R, Sharath BR, Ranvir Wadhwa
Class D: Rajendra Danganavar, Uttam Ayappa, Chaitanya S, Shreyas BM, KS Devaiah, Vinay Sagar, Shreyas SP, Punith S
Hubli Tigers
Head coach: Deepak Chowgle
Class A: Abhimanyu Mithun
Class B: Lavnith Sisodia, V Koushik, Liyan Khan, Naveen MG
Class C: Anand, Shivkumar BU, Tushar Singh, Akshan Rao, Zahoor Farooqi
Class D: Rohan Naveen, Saurabh Shrivastava, Sagar Solanki, Gowtham Sagar, Roshan A, Rahul Singh Rawat, Shishir Bhawne, Sharan Gowda
Mangalore United
Head coach: Stuart Binny
Class A: Abhinav Manohar
Class B: R Samarth, Vyshak Vijaykumar Amit Verma, M Venkatesh
Class C: Aneeshwar Gautam, Sujay Sathyahari, Rohit Kumar AC, Macneil Noronha, HS Sharath
Class D: Shivkumar Okay, Nikin Jose, Raghuveer Pavalur, Amogh S, Chinmay NA, Aditya Somanna, Yashwardhan, Dheeraj Gowda
Bengaluru Blasters
Head coach: Naziruddin T
Class A: Mayank Agarwal, J Suchith, Ronit Extra
Class B: Anirudha Joshi, Pradeep T, Kranthi Kumar
Class C: Chetan LR, Anish KV, Kumar LR, Rakshith S, Rishi Bopanna
Class D: Santok Singh, Suraj Ahuja, Paras Gurbax Arya, Lochan S Gowda, Sean Ishan Joseph, Kuhush Marathe, Tanay Walmik
Mysore Warriors
Head coach: PV Shashikath
Class A: Karun Nair, Shreyas Gopal
Class B: Shubhang Hegde, Pavan Deshpande, Vidhyadhar Patil
Class C: Ulllal, Prateek Jain, Lochan Appanna, Chiranjeevi, Naga Bharath
Class D: Bharath Doori, Shivraj S, Monish Reddy, Varun Rao, Rahul Prasanna, Nithin Bhille, Aditya Goyal, Abhishek Ahlawat
Gulbarga Mystics
Head coach: Mansuralikhan
Class A: Manaish Pandey, Devdutt Padikkal
Class B: CA Karthik, Manoj Bhandge, Shrijith KL, V Kaverappa
Class C: Krithik Krishna, Abhilash Shetty, Kushal Wadhwani, Pranav Bhatia
Class D: Mohit BA, Rohan Patil, Dhanish Gowda, Mohammed Aqib Javed, Shreesha Achaar, Jeshwant Acharya, Aaron Christi
