Lanka T10 Players Spotlight in Abu Dhabi T10 Excitement is palpable about the shortest format of the game with Kandy all set to host the first ever T10 Super League next month. At the same time, on the other end of the globe, T10 Abu Dhabi is being held and Lankan stars are impressing fans.
Thisara Perera, inform captain of the Chennai Brave Jaguars, leads this year’s ICC T10 tournament which now includes ten teams, the newly-added Bolts Ajman and UP Nawabs.
Fans of Sri Lanka who want to cheer for one team have no other option than to opt for the Chennai Brave Jaguars as they have no less than six Sri Lanka players in the squad.
Names such as Akila Dananjaya, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Nuwan Thushara, and Mohammad Shamaz and Garuka Sanketh join skipper Thisara in his team. Thisara’s squad has a mix of youth and experience in Wicket Keeper-Batsman Mohamed Shamaz (23) and fast bowler Sanketh (19), who featured in the ICC Under-19 World Cup.
Lanka T10 Players Spotlight in Abu Dhabi T10 2024
Many Lanka T10 Players spotlight in Abu Dhabi T10 have taken the centre stage with their exceptional performances and supplied the fans something to talk about.
Former Sri Lankan captain, and all-rounder Dasun Shanaka is easily the best player in this league. Batting at number 3 for Bangla Tigers, he hit an incredible 62 runs in only 27 balls, with 4 boundaries and 6 sixes. It was a knock in which a lot of excitement was generated.
On Saturday, UP Nawabs bowler Binura Fernando started off the game quickly with burning opening overs taken against the Samp Army taking two wickets and only giving nine runs. On the other hand, Maheesh Theekshana has been becoming the go-to man for Nicholas Pooran with the Deccan Gladiators still not losing a match because of his intelligent bowling.
Lanka T10 Players Spotlight in Abu Dhabi T10 2024: Kusal Perera and Matheesha Pathirana have been instrumental for the New York Strikers while Ajman Bolts’ Shevon Daniel, who was opening alongside Alex Hales, lit things up with a swiftly made 22 off 10 balls but his team crumbled after he got out. Ajman Bolts are also without Elston’s favorite shoulder duo of Dunith Wellalage and Shehan Jayasuriya who played the match against Team Abu Dhabi but neither was sent in to bowl.
In another spot, while engaging in the tournament it was good to see Sri Lanka’s white-ball captain Charith Asalanka finding his best form along Muditha Lakshan, Malsha Tharupathi, Duminda Sewmina and Ravindu Ratnayake who have progressed towards making the competition even more competitive.
The one and only T10 format cricket is designed for an Attention Deficit Disorder generation and its first tournament began in 2017. This format is all about entertaining the audience as matches end in just 90 minutes. Regardless, cricket may still appear to be a game of slow score accumulation; T10 brings abundant fielding strategies, innovative bowling forms, and extreme bat striking; T10 caters to a younger audience with very little time available.
In Abu Dhabi, the 10 over matches have become tense contests since scores in the zone of 120 runs and more have become the norm. Firstly, while T10 cricket does not have the game planning aspects of the longer format of the game, it has represented itself as the most captivating version of cricket that is a force to be reckoned with and is changing the face of the game without actually changing its principles.
The Abu Dhabi T10 is among the Sri Lankan players proving the right time to come out at the world stage successfully. And as Kandy is ready to see its own T10 action, this is only the beginning for Sri Lanka in the global T10 cricket culture.
It is almost that time for the IPL auction and many players know that if they perform the best, they will be part of the richest and also the glitziest tournament of them all.