A fourth side, from South Africa, is supposed to participate in the competition, to be held in September.
An Indian group is set to go facing a Pakistan group come September, away in Namibia. Around the time the Asia Cup happens - doubtlessly in the UAE - Cricket Namibia will have the four-group Global T20 Namibia series, with Bengal [from India], a delegate Lahore Qalandars side [from Pakistan], and a South African homegrown side.
Bengal have affirmed their support, and Qalandars have concurred on a fundamental level, with a South African side liable to be named soon. ESPNcricinfo comprehends that some calculated niggles need resolving before the last go for it.
Bengal have affirmed their support, and Qalandars have concurred on a basic level, with a South African side liable to be named soon. ESPNcricinfo comprehends that some calculated niggles need figuring out before the last go for it.
On Friday, Bengal named a 16-man group for the competition. Abhimanyu Easwaran will be in charge, and various different regulars - Shahbaz Ahmed, Ishan Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Writtick Chatterjee, among others - are incorporated, for certain new faces as well.
The valuable chance to play against a group that will be partaking in the 2022 T20 World Cup would be precious for the Bengal players, Debabrata Das, Cricket Association of Bengal joint secretary, said.
"The telecasters for the competition preceded our leader [Avishek Dalmiya] and welcomed us. We made a move to play six-seven games before the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy [India's homegrown T20 competition for men], on the grounds that we can get to play against a World Cup group," Das told ESPNcricinfo. "The desire is that there are a few youthful players who are playing in neighborhood cricket in Bengal and performing phenomenally regarding T20s. So we are sending generally those youthful folks with the goal that we can make our group for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
The group we are sending to another country, this is another group. We need to perceive how they play, how they tackle this competition."
For Namibia, it will be an opportunity to finetune their arrangements for the T20 World Cup, to be held in Australia in October-November. At the 2021 T20 World Cup in the UAE, Namibia completed fifth in Group 2 subsequent to making it from the primer round to the Super 12 phase. Namibia will play an ODI tri-series in Papua New Guinea after this T20 competition prior to leaving for Australia, where they are assembled with Sri Lanka, Netherlands and UAE in the primary round.
There has been almost no delegate cricket between homegrown sides from India and Pakistan lately.
The last event was in the 2014 Champions League T20, when Lahore Lions played against Kolkata Knight Riders, a game that highlighted Mohammed Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Umar Akmal, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa and Suryakumar Yadav.
Preceding that, somewhere in the range of 2006 and 2008, the Nissar Trophy - a four-day top notch rivalry between the champs of the Ranji Trophy and the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy - was played. However, the opposition was rejected after three versions.
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