Legends League Cricket 2023: Schedule, Teams, Live Streaming And More

At Legends League Cricket, there are two distinctive cricketing formats being played: Regional and Franchise.

The inaugural season of regional format was hosted by Muscat and Oman, and the most recent season, held in March 2023, was hosted by Doha, Qatar.

This year's franchise-led Legends League Cricket will be a six-team tournament and will be played across five cities in India – Ranchi, Dehradun, Jammu, Vizag, and Surat.

The franchise-based edition of Legends League Cricket, which is being held in India will witness six privately owned teams compete in this exciting tournament. The

India Capitals team is owned by GMR Sportsline, which also co-owns the IPL team Delhi Capitals. The Gujarat Giants team is owned by Adani Sportline, which also owns the Gujarat Giants team in the Women's Premier League (WPL).

Bhilwara Kings is owned by The LNJ Bhilwara Group. Manipal Tigers is owned by Manipal Education and Medical Group. Two new teams which have joined the second season are Urbanrisers Hyderabad which the prestigious Urbanrise Group owns in collaboration with Mr. JC Pavan Reddy, and Southern Super Stars which KLO Sports own with Ranjeeth Rathod.

The inaugural match of LLC 2023 was played on November 18 in Ranchi, where the Bhilwara Kings defeated the India Capitals.

India Capitals won the tournament in 2022.

The T20 tournament began on November 18 and the final of LLC 2023 will take place on December 9.

The starting time for the afternoon games will be 3 PM IST whereas starting time for evening fixtures will be 6:30 PM IST.

The tournament will cover a total of 19 matches which will also include - two qualifiers, one eliminator, and a final (in a similar format as IPL).

A total of six teams will play in the 2023 edition of Legends League Cricket, these teams will compete in a round-robin format and then move forward to the knockout stages of the tournament.

Here are the six teams that are participating in the 2023 edition of Legends League Cricket.

• India Capitals

• Gujarat Giants

• Bhilwara Kings

• Manipal Tigers

• Southern Super Stars

• Urbanrisers Hyderabad

The schedule comprises of 15 round-robin matches followed by 2 qualifiers, 1 eliminator, and a final.

Here are the full squad details of the six teams participating in the Legends League Cricket.

India Capitals

Bharat Chipli, Gautam Gambhir (c), Hashim Amla, Kevin Pietersen, Kirk Edwards, Ricardo Powell, Yalaka Gnaneswara Rao, Ben Dunk (Wk), Morne van Wyk, Ashley Nurse, Dilhara Fernando, Fidel Edwards, Ishwar Pandey, K P Appanna, Munaf Patel, Pravin Tambe, Rusty Theron, Hamish Bennett

Gujarat Giants

Jacques Kallis, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Chris Gayle, Richard Levi, Chirag Khurana, Elton Chigumbura, Kevin O’Brien, Seekkuge Prasanna, Parthiv Patel (c), Ben Laughlin, Liam Plunkett, Rayad Emrit, Sarabjit Ladda, Sreesanth, Sulieman Benn, Dhruv Raval, Rajat Bhatia

Bhilwara Kings

Lendl Simmons, Solomon Mire, Chris Barnwell, Iqbal Abdulla, Irfan Pathan (c), Jesal Karia, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Yusuf Pathan, Pinal Shah, Anureet Singh, Dhammika Prasad, Prosper Utseya, Rahul Sharma, Ryan Sidebottom, Tim Murtagh, Anand Rajan, Robin Bisht

Manipal Tigers

Amitoze Singh, Hamilton Masakadza, Kyle Coetzer, Mohammad Kaif, Subramaniam Badrinath, Colin de Grandhomme, Corey Anderson, Thisara Perera, Chadwick Walton, Robin Uthappa, Harbhajan Singh (c), Imran Khan, Mitchell McClenaghan, Parvinder Awana, Praveen Gupta, Praveen Kumar, Yogesh Takawale, Angelo Perera, Jade Dernbach, Pankaj Singh

Southern Super Stars

Aaron Finch (c), Andre McCarthy, Rajesh Bishnoi, Ross Taylor, Tanmay Srivastava, Upul Tharanga, Bipul Sharma, Farveez Maharoof, Jesse Ryder, Johan Botha, Manvinder Bisla, Shreevats Goswami, Abdur Razzak, Amila Aponso, Ashok Dinda, Pankaj Rao, Suranga Lakmal, Pawn Negi

Urbanrisers Hyderabad

Asghar Afghan, Martin Guptill, Peter Trego, Suresh Raina (c), Tirumalasetti Suman, Dwayne Smith, Stuart Binny, Yogesh Nagar, Amit Paunikar, Chamara Kapugedera, Chris Mpofu, Devendra Bishoo, Jerome Taylor, Morne Morkel, Pawan Suyal, Pragyan Ojha, Sudeep Tyagi, Tino Best, Gurkreeat Mann, Shadab Jakati, Shiva Kant Shukla

The LLC 2023 tournament will be broadcast live on the Star Sports TV Channel in India.

Live streaming of the Legends League Cricket (LLC) 2023 will be available on Disney+ Hotstar and also on FanCode app and website.