ILT20 2022: Kieron Pollard to captain MI Emirates and Rashid Khan to lead SA20 team MI Cape Town. Which is a team owned by the owners of Mumbai Indians in ILT20.
Will be Played between January and February next year:-
While MI Cape Town, the SA20 team owned by the same group, will be led by Rashid Khan. Both the tournaments, in their inaugural seasons, will be played between January and February next year.
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MI Cape Town will play their first match of SA20 against Paarl Royals at their home ground Cape Town on 10th January. He recently announced Jofra Archer,
Who is also a part of Mumbai Indians as their wildcard signing for the tournament. Archer had not played competitively since March 2021.
But made an encouraging comeback in a three-day game for the England Lions against the England Test team in Abu Dhabi.
In MI Cape Town, Archer will have England colleagues Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone and Olly Stone for company.
While other big names in the line-up include Kagiso Rabada, Rassie van der Dussen, and Dewald Brewis as well as Rashid. Simon Katich is the head coach of the team.
The MI Emirates in addition to Pollard
Meanwhile, MI Emirates have big T20 stars like Dwayne Bravo, Nicholas Pooran, Trent Boult, and Imran Tahir apart from Pollard.
They will be coached by Shane Bond, who has been the bowling coach at Mumbai Indians since 2015. Parthiv Patel, Vinay Kumar and James Franklin are also part of the support staff, and Robin Singh is the general manager of cricket.
In an overhaul of its support staff earlier this year following the acquisition of two new teams, the Mumbai Indians franchise appointed Mark Boucher as the head coach of the IPL team.
Mahela Jayawardene (Global Head of Performance) and Zaheer Khan (Global). Head of Cricket Development) for wider roles with all three teams.
Infocomm Chairman Akash Ambani made a statement:-
Akash Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm, which owns all three teams, said in a statement: “Both our captains have an amazing mix of talent, experience, and passion.”
“I am confident that Polly and Rashid will take forward the MI ethos of cricket and the MI brand.
Both will work with our outstanding coaching teams to infuse MI spirit at MI Emirates and MI Cape Town and win the hearts of cricket fans in the UAE and South Africa.”
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Pollard recently ended a 13-year playing career with Mumbai Indians to take up the position as batting coach with the team for the IPL.
