Preparations for the country’s first sporting event in the corona period have been completed in Ranchi. The country’s first T20 league will be launched at JSCA Stadium in Ranchi from 17th September. The Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) has announced the teams for the league. Committees have been constituted for the successful conduction of the tournament. Six teams in the league will participate in the tournament, namely Ranchi Raiders, Jamshedpur Jugglers, Dhanbad Dynamos, Bokaro Blasters, Singhbhum Strikers and Dumka Daredevils. Each team has 16 members. Cricketers who have represented the state team in Ranji Trophy, under-23, under-19 and under-16 in last few seasons have been given a place in the teams.
The teams taking part in the tournament are:
Ranchi Raiders: Anand Singh, Aryaman Sen, Shikhar Mohan, Aditya Singh, Pankaj Kumar, Ronnie Kumar, Satyendra Kumar Prajapati, Vivekananda Tiwari, Prem Kumar, Harsh Rana, Manishi, Prem Kumar Singh, Ashish Kumar Choubey, Rishabh Raj, Ayush Ojha, Yash Bhagat.
Coach: SS Rao and Rahul Mishra.
Jamshedpur Jugglers: Vivek Kumar, Aryan Huda, Shrestha Sagar, Raheel Riaz Khan, Robin Mandal, Himanshu Dwivedi, Sankat Mochan, Rahul Prasad, Ashish Kumar (c), Rishu Singh Chauhan, Sushant Verma, Jaskaran, Atul Surwar, Gaurav Mishra.
Coach: Satish Singh and Kuldeep Sharma.
Dhanbad Dynamos: Najim Siddiqui, Vishal Singh, Vijay Jena, Satya Sethu, Kaushal Singh, Sahib Rizvi, Shubham Singh (c) Chandan Mukhi, Jai Prakash Yadav, Abhishek Yadav, Abhishek Chaudhary, Shubham Singh (Jr), Aman Kumar, Kumar Ankit, Sahil Raj, Vikas Kumar.
Coach: Ratan Kumar and Arun Vidyarthi.
Bokaro Blasters: Kumar Devbrat, Vikas Vishal, Kumar Kushagra, Ayush Bhardwaj, Rajdeep Singh, Prem Chaurasia, Ankit Raj Singh, Ashish Kumar (Jr), Nityananda Kashyap, Yuvraj Kumar, Pratik Ranjan, Pankaj Yadav, Ajit Kumar Singh, Vikas Singh, Pratik Kumar, Asif Mansoori.
Coach: Kajal Das.
Singhbhum Strikers: Arvind Kumar, Sumit Kumar, Kumar Suraj, Kumar Karan, Amardeep Singh, Wilfred Beng, Sharandeep Singh, Bal Krishna, Ajay Yadav, Aryaman Lala, Pratik Bhagat, Siva Singh, Vinayak Vikram, Anshu Singh, Roshan Kumar Nirala.
Coach: CM Jha.
Dumka Daredevils: Mohit Kumar, Bhanu Anand, Arnav Sinha, Alok Sharma, Mo. Shahrukh, Supriyo Chakravarty, Ayush Kumar, Amit Kumar, Saurabh Shekhar, Junaid Ashraf, Sonu Kumar Singh, Amit Kumar, Ronit Kumar Singh, Nishikant, Harshdev Gautam, Kumar Shubham.
Coach: Manish Vardhan, Rajkumar Yadav.
Umpires Somnath Jha, Rajeshwar Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Pramod Kumar, Ajit Kumar Singh, Umesh Pathak, Soumitra Patnaik will officiate in the matches while Rajesh Verma, Anwar Mustafa and Ashish Sinha will be the match referees.
