The fourth edition of the Abu Dhabi T10 League gets underway on January 28, 2021, with eight sides set to vie for the title. The T10 league draft will take place on December 23, 2020. Here is everything you need to know about it.

The ten-over format cricket league enters its fourth season in 2021. The eight sides – Maratha Arabians, Bangla Tigers, Delhi Bulls, Northern Warriors, Deccan Gladiators, Qalandars, Team Abu Dhabi, Pune Devils – have been divided into two groups of four following the draw on December 20.

The draft pick order was confirmed during the draw as well with Deccan Gladiators being handed the first pick. Here’s the draft pick order and the two groups in full.

T10 League Draft Order

1. Deccan Gladiators
2. Bangla Tigers
3. Team Abu Dhabi
4. Maratha Arabians
5. Pune Devils
6. Delhi Bulls
7. Qalandars
8. Northern Warriors

T10 League groups

Group A: Maratha Warriors, Bangla Tigers, Delhi Bulls, Northern Warriors

Group B: Deccan Gladiators, Qalandars, Team Abu Dhabi, Pune Devils

T10 League draft date

The T10 League draft will take place on Wednesday, December 23.

Icon players

Maratha Arabians: Shoaib Malik
Bangla Tigers: Isuru Udana
Delhi Bulls: Dwayne Bravo
Northern Warriors: Andre Russell
Pune Devils: Thisara Perera
Team Abu Dhabi: Chris Gayle
Qalandars: Shahid Afridi
Deccan Gladiators: Sunil Narine

Along with naming their icon players, the franchises have retained a few players from last year and have directly signed some players ahead of the draft as well. This will be the debut T10 league season for Pune Devils, who understandably didn’t have any retained players. Maratha Arabians, the defending champions, are yet to reveal their list of retained players.

Here is the full list of players retained and signed by each side.

Retained/signed players for each T10 League side

Team Abu Dhabi: Rohan Mustafa, Luke Wright, Avishka Fernando, Hayden Walsh, Chris Morris (direct signing)

Deccan Gladiators: Mohammad Shahzad, Kieron Pollard, Zahoor Khan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Colin Ingram (direct signing)

Qalandars: Chris Jordan, Samit Patel, Phil Salt, Sultan Ahmed

Bangla Tigers: Andre Fletcher, Tom Moores, Qais Ahmed, Chirag Suri, David Wiese, Johnson Charles (direct signing)

Delhi Bulls: Evin Lewis (direct signing), Mohammad Nabi, Ali Khan, Dushmantha Chameera, Sherfane Rutherford

Northern Warriors: Rovman Powell (direct signing), Rayad Emrit, Nicholas Pooran, Lendl Simmons, Wahab Riaz, Junaid Siddique

Maratha Arabians: Yet to announce

Pune Devils: Mohammad Amir (direct signing)