A cricket membership in Melbourne has claimed that it is extremely near signing Yuvraj Singh and Chris Gayle for his or her T20 matches this summer time.
Malgrave Cricket Club, which performs in Melbourne’s Eastern Cricket Association (ECA) third-tier competitors, mentioned they’re additionally in talks with West Indies legend Brian Lara and South African nice AB de Villiers.
Mulgrave has already roped in Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga with Sanath Jayasuriya as their head coach for the summer time.
Mulgrave chairman Milan Pulaneygam mentioned talks are on with former India all-rounder Yuvraj and West Indies Gayle.
“We have secured Dilshan, now we have secured Sanath, now we have secured Tharanga. And now we’re engaged on finalizing the agreements with another potential gamers.
“We are in talks, and with Chris (Gayle) and Yuvraj we’re round 85 to 90 per cent. We must finalize a couple of issues but it surely appears actually cool.”
However, each the cricketers are but to touch upon the dialog.
The president mentioned the membership is attempting so as to add extra sponsors to signal massive stars.
“We’ve got a good amount of support at the moment that will bring us over the line, but we don’t want to break it, we want to be able to give back to the community and expand the structure of the club.”
“It’s a course of, there’s plenty of issues we have to embody of their journey to Australia with these big-name gamers: we’ll present them with lodging, their journey, meals, and so forth. There’s plenty of background materials that we want for them. set up.
“Here we wish to put them in contact with their sponsors and see in the event that they may give one thing again to the membership and the sponsors. So it is all a part of the dialog and dialog that we’re having with them.”
ECA’s T20 Cup may have 3 preliminary matches between November and February earlier than a knock-out section of three extra video games.
The web site additionally reported that any worldwide participant is more likely to play just one or two video games.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
