Sehwag, Yuvraj and Harbhajan to play for Indian Maharajas in Legends League Cricket

Indian stalwarts Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh will represent Indian Maharajas in the inaugural edition of the Legends League Cricket (LLC). The tournament is all set to commence on January 20 at the Al Amerat Cricket Stadium in Oman. Apart from the aforementioned players, the Indians will have other greats like the Pathan brothers, S Badrinath, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Naman Ojha, Manpreet Gony, Hemang Badani, Venugopal Rao, Munaf Patel, Sanjay Bangar, Nayan Mongia and Amit Bhandari.

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Meanwhile, former India coach Ravi Shastri is the commissioner of LLC. Shastri is optimistic about the Indian Maharajas doing well in the tournament.

"Like true Kings, they will come, they would see and they would conquer. The Cricket Maharajas from India are coming together to take on the battle against the other two top teams from Asia and rest of the World. It would be the mother of all rivalries when Sehwag, Yuvraj, Bhajji play against Afridi, Murali, Chaminda, Shoaib, this will be a blast from the past for the fans," he said

The tournament will have two other teams as well - the Asia Lions and the Rest of the World. The Asia Lions will have Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Afridi, Sanath Jayasuriya, Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammed Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Umar Gul and Asghar Afghan and Kamran Akmal in the team. The squad for the Rest of the World will be announced soon.