Associates take center-stage in Euro T20 Slam player draft

The player draft for the inaugural Euro T20 Slam took place on 19th Jul 2019 in London. The joint T20 franchise-based league in collaboration between Cricket Ireland, Scotland Cricket and Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (KNCB) is the first major of it’s kind in European T20 circuit, except England’s Vitality T20 Blast.

As per the draft rules, each team has a pre-drafted Icon Player and one Marquee Player before going to the main Player’s Draft. A maximum of seven International Players (5 compulsory + 2 supplementary) were picked at the main Players’ Draft, followed by nine local Board player’s draft. Hence, a franchise team can have a maximum of 18 players and a minimum of 16.

Cricket Boards of Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands nominated 18 players into the local players draft. These 18 players were drafted respectively by only the country-based franchises. Hence, Scotland players were picked up by Edinburgh Rocks and Glasgow Giants, while Ireland players were picked up by Dublin Chiefs and Belfast Titans, and the Dutch players were picked up by Amsterdam Knights and Rotterdam Rhinos.

The player draft was streamed Live on Euro T20 Slam facebook page.

Euro T20 Slam Squads

Dublin Chiefs: Eoin Morgan (Icon), Babar Azam (Marquee), Mohammad Amir, Harry Gurney, Daniel Christian, Robbie Frylinck, Corbin Bosch, Andrew Balbirnie (Ireland), Kevin O’Brien (Ireland), George Dockrell (Ireland), Josh Little (Ireland), Simi Singh (Ireland), Tyron Kane (Ireland), Lorcan Tucker (Ireland), Gareth Delaney (Ireland) & Harry Tector (Ireland)

Belfast Titans: Shahid Afridi (Icon), JP Duminy (Marquee), Mohammad Nawaz, Luke Wright, Colin Ingram, Mitchell McClenaghan, Aaron Summers, Muhammad Ilyas, Paul Stirling (Ireland), Gary Wilson (Ireland), Mark Adair (Ireland), Shane Getkate (Ireland), Craig Young (Ireland), Andrew McBrine (Ireland), Stuart Thompson (Ireland), Boyd Rankin (Ireland) & Greg Thompson (Ireland)

Amsterdam Knights: Shane Watson (Icon), Imran Tahir (Marquee), Ben Cutting, Ahmad Shahzad, Hasan Ali, Sikandar Raza, Alzari Joseph, Varun Chopra, Saad Bin Zafar (Canada), Tobias Visee (Netherlands), Roelof van der Merwe (Netherlands), Brandon Glover (Netherlands), Ben Cooper (Netherlands), Paul van Meekeren (Netherlands), Philippe Boissevain (Netherlands), Wesley Barresi (Netherlands), Sikandar Zulfiqur (Netherlands) & Tonny Staal (Netherlands)

Rotterdam Rhinos: Rashid Khan (Icon), Luke Ronchi (Marquee), Fakhar Zaman, Samit Patel, Shaheen Afridi, Hardus Viljoen, Peter Trego, Anwar Ali, Maxwell O’Dowd (Netherlands), Pieter Seelaar (Netherlands), Scott Edwards (Netherlands), Fred Klassen (Netherlands), Shane Snater (Netherlands), Stephen Myburgh (Netherlands), Saqib Zulfiqur (Netherlands), Vivian Kingma (Netherlands) & Bas de Leede (Netherlands)

Edinburgh Rocks: Martin Guptill (Icon), Chris Lynn (Marquee), Corey Anderson, Matt Henry, Tymal Mills, Tabraiz Shamsi, Anton Devcich, Waqar Salamkhail, Dwayne Pretorius, Kyle Coetzer (Scotland), Calum MacLeod (Scotland), Mark Watt (Scotland), Michael Leask (Scotland), Craig Wallace (Scotland), Gavin Main (Scotland), Adrian Neill (Scotland), Dylan Budge (Scotland) & Oliver Hairs (Scotland)

Glasgow Giants: Brendon McCullum (Icon), Dale Steyn (Marquee), Ravi Bopara, Usman Shinwari, Moises Henriques, Qais Ahmed, Heinrich Klassen, JJ Smuts, Ritchie Berrington (Scotland), George Munsey (Scotland), Alasdair Evans (Scotland), Safyaan Sharif (Scotland), Matthew Cross (Scotland), Tom Sole (Scotland), Scott Cameron (Scotland), Hamza Tahir (Scotland) & Michael Jones (Scotland)

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