Big Cricket League: When and where to watch inaugural edition of T20 tournament featuring amateur and professional cricketers

If the Indian Premier League brought international players from across the world to play scintillating games of cricket in India, and the Celebrity Cricket League made cricketers out of film stars, the latest will have former international players from India and the rest of the world rub shoulders with anyone with a love for the game and a fair handle on how to play it. The Big Cricket League, which is set to kick off with its first edition shortly, brings together amateur cricketers and professionals in a T20 tournament.

Six teams will be a part of the inaugural edition of the tournament, each of which was allowed to draft 6 former international cricketers, 6 former Indian first-class cricketers and 10 amateurs. The amateurs were chosen from a pool of shortlisted candidates who were put through a 3-day selection camp, which included training & net sessions, fielding sessions, physical fitness testing and a minimum of 2 selection matches.

The first edition of the Big Cricket League will be held from December 11 to December 21 in Surat, with two matches per day. The matches will be streamed live on Sony LIV. The six teams - Northern Challengers, UP Brij Stars, Rajasthan Regals, MP Tigers, Mumbai Marines and Southern Spartans – play 5 matches each, with the top 4 proceeding to the semi-finals.

Here’s the schedule of the Big Cricket League Season 1

Team compositions at the Big Cricket League

MP Tigers - Yusuf Pathan, Pawan Negi, Stuart Binny, Naman Ojha, Tamim Iqbal, Dilshan Munaweera, Amit Mishra, Jatin Saxena, Mohammed Irfan Kaleem, S Vishwas, Mohammed Azhar Ansari, Arnav Kumar Prasad, Abdul Bari, Faizal A, Saumil Das, Daivik Nayak, Sanket Sharma, Sandeep Kumar

Northern Challengers - Shikhar Dhawan, Darren Bravo, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Dane Vilas, Upul Tharanga, Samiullah Shinwari, Anureet Singh, Bipul Sharma, Babar Ali, Sandeep Chauhan, Prakash Naskar, Mahaveer Singh Rathore, Bhuneshwar Pratap Singh, Rajat Singh, Vishal Prasad, Ashish Kumar Tiwari, Kundar Kumar, Srujal Shetty

Mumbai Marines - Irfan Pathan, Lendl Simmons, Richard Levi, Chamara Silva, Manpreet Gony, Malinda Pushpakumara, Subodh Bhati, Manan Sharma, Abhishek Kaul, Shivam Kumar, Malay Bharti, Ankit Stephen, Hershail Harrison, Ganesh Rajan, Mihir Agarwal, Vineet Singh, Happy Nagarwal, Mohammed Faheem

Rajasthan Regals - TM Dilshan, Dwayne Smith, Shahbaz Nadeem, Tino Best, Morne Van Wyk, Fidel Edwards, Rajat Bhatia, Shreevats Goswami, Parikshit Kalpesh Jadav, Mohammad Faizan, Dhairya Singh Dalal, Surya Pratap Singh, Sathya L, Aadil Ahmad Vani, Yash Prabhakar, Samarth Srinivas, Achinto Das, Prashant Yadav

Southern Spartans’ - Suresh Raina, Abhimanyu Mithun, Faiz Fazal, Herschelle Gibbs, Phil Mustard, Solomon Mire, Paul Valthaty, Abhishek Sakuja, Shrestha, Asmat Fayaz, Abhishek Kumar Yadav, Milin Yadav, Santosh Yadav, Abdul Rehman, Aman Khan, Dinesh C Bhunu, Sher Singh, Karthik RK

UP Brij Stars - Imran Tahir, Ben Dunk, Ashley Nurse, Hamilton Masakadza, Kevon Cooper, Ben Laughlin, Chirag Gandhi, Monu Kumar, Apoorva Mehrotra, Salil Yadav, Vedprakash Manda, Narendra Kumar Meena, Garvit Agarwal, Raahat Agarwal, Gaurav Tomar, Aryan Praveen, Sumit Chaudhary, Adharsh T