{"id":31290,"date":"2017-01-01T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T09:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31290"},"modified":"2017-01-01T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T09:19:14","slug":"eight-associate-nations-to-lock-horns-in-desert-t20-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31290","title":{"rendered":"Eight associate nations to lock horns in Desert T20 Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-17036\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cricket-gen1_0903getty_630.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"cricket gen1 0903getty 630\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cricket-gen1_0903getty_630.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cricket-gen1_0903getty_630-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Dubai: The Emirates Cricket Board on Saturday announced a new T20 tournament, with eight Associate nations locking horns from January 14 to 20 at Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Zayed Cricket Stadium with the semi-finals and final slated to be held here.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from hosts UAE, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Ireland, Namibia, Netherlands, Oman and Scotland will take part in the competition, named the Desert T20 Tournament, which will be played in a round-robin and knockout format, according to a espncricinfo report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aim of the tournament is to provide an opportunity for our teams to play more competitive men&#8217;s T20 cricket,&#8221; Zayed Abbas, Emirates Cricket Board member, said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;<a href=\"cricket-news\/international\/42903-smith-ends-2016-as-top-ranked-test-batsman\">Smith ends 2016 as top-ranked Test batsman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each of the participating countries are very close in <a href=\"search?q=icc\">ICC<\/a> T20I rankings, so we expect the quality of cricket to be very strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tournament kicks-off with Scotland facing Hong Kong followed by Afghanistan taking on Ireland on January 14 in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-17036\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cricket-gen1_0903getty_630.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"cricket gen1 0903getty 630\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cricket-gen1_0903getty_630.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cricket-gen1_0903getty_630-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Dubai: The Emirates Cricket Board on Saturday announced a new T20 tournament, with eight Associate nations locking horns from January 14 to 20 at Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Zayed Cricket Stadium with the semi-finals and final slated to be held here.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from hosts UAE, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Ireland, Namibia, Netherlands, Oman and Scotland will take part in the competition, named the Desert T20 Tournament, which will be played in a round-robin and knockout format, according to a espncricinfo report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4744,20039,20038,466],"class_list":["post-31290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-cricket-news","tag-cricket-news","tag-desert-t20","tag-emirates-cricket-board","tag-indian-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eight associate nations to lock horns in Desert T20 Tournament - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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