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India Legends Cricket Team (Image Credit: Twitter/Road Safety World Series)
With only a few days left at the start of the second season of the Road Safety World Series, India Legends have announced their squad. The tournament will start on September 10 with India being the defending champions. They had beaten Sri Lanka in the final of the first season played early last year. Talking about the team, it will be led by Sachin Tendulkar.
Virender Sehwag, who was part of the team last season, won't be playing this year. The reason for this is that he will be playing in the Legends League Cricket where he will lead the Gujarat Giants. Apart from him, most of the players who were part of the title-winning team last year such as Yuvraj Singh, the Pathan brothers - Irfan and Yusuf, Harbhajan Singh Munaf Patel, etc. have been included in the team.
Besides, players such as Abhimanyu Mithun, Rajesh Pawar, and Rahul Sharma will be playing in the league for the first time. Recently, Sharma announced his retirement from competitive cricket to play in the tournament.
India Legends Squad in Road Safety Tournament:
Sachin Tendulkar (C), Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Munaf Patel, S.Badrinath, Stuart Binny, Naman Ojha (WK), Manpreet Gony, Pragyan Ojha, Vinay Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Rajesh Pawar, Rahul Sharma
The Road Safety World Series is a very good initiative to create awareness of road safety: Nitin Gadkari
Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Government of India, Nitin Gadkari has said that the tournament is a great initiative to create awareness of road safety among people.
"The Road Safety World Series is a very good initiative to create awareness towards road safety through cricket. We want every individual in this country to be aware and obey every rules and regulations while on the road and for that to happen, we have to create awareness among the people, I strongly believe that this series will be able to do and achieve the goal of saving lives on Indian roads."