The LLC T20 will feature former players from around the world in the T20 triangular series. The three teams that will appear in the league will be: India Maharajas, Asia Lions, and World Giants. Each team will play the other twice in a round-robin format, before the finals. Other key names from the 1990s and 2000s are expected to appear in the competition, including the likes of Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Afridi, Muttiah Muralitharan, Sanath Jayasuriya, and others. The entire league will be played at Oman Cricket Stadium in Muscat. A total of seven games will be played and broadcast on the Sony network in India.
Virat Kohli stepped down as captain of India's Test team, shortly after the day's 2-1 Test series defeat in South Africa by seven wickets in Cape Town. He took the reins as full-time Test captain in early 2015, when MS Dhoni announced his retirement from Australia, and ended up being India's most successful Test captain. Kohli's immediate announcement on Twitter comes in the wake of a series of public talks between him and BCCI, which began with his cancellation of the T20I ahead of the 2021 World Cup. In early December, the BCCI sacked Kohli, ODI captain, and named Rohit Sharma the new white leader. A day later, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said he had asked Kohli not to step down as T20I captain, but Kohli quickly opposed Ganguly, saying his decision to withdraw was "well received", dubbed "progress" by the BCCI top brass. , and that he “was not told to reconsider” his decision. Kohli also expressed his disappointment at the same press conferenc...