A team of 15 talented junior players from Madhya Pradesh would be selected to represent the team MP Warriors in the Indian Junior Players league (IJPl) T-20 Tournament. The tournament shall be played with pink ball to make budding cricketers adept at shape of things to come,” said IJPl Executive Director Sampat Rai.
While launching the tournament, Rai told mediapersons on Tuesday that the tournament is scheduled to screen thousands of young Indian cricketers across 22 cities in 16 Indian states from Chandigarh to Chennai and Gujarat to Guwahati, covering almost the entire expanse of the country.
Rai further said, “Gautam Gambhir is the brand ambassador of the tournament. We have signed up international stars like Kieron Pollard and Jonty Rhodes besides Rishi Dhawan and Paras Dogra from to mentor the talent pool.”
Rai added, “We have appointed BCCI certified coaches for the training of the registrants. Ranji Trophy players would be providing intense 3-day training to registrants at the selection camps. Best practices and facilities for grooming talent and developing skills would be offered. Performance would be the only criteria for selection and all registrants would be treated equally.”
Rai told that the winning team will get cash prize of Rs 21 lacs, the 1st runner-up team will get Rs 11 lacs while the Man of the series will get a chance to play with minor counties in England. The selection camps would be conducted in Delhi, Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Ambala, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Dehradun, lucknow, Kanpur, Jaipur, Bhopal, Indore, Ranchi, Guwahati, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore.