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The second edition of the UPT20 league kicked off on August 25 and will continue till September 14. All the matches of the tournament will be played at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.
A total of six teams will be participating in the second edition and the top four teams of the competition will qualify for the playoffs. The top two teams after the league stage will be playing Qualifier 1, and the winner of that game will qualify for the final. The third and fourth finished teams will be fighting in the Eliminator and the winner of that match will be playing Qualifier 2 against the loser of Qualifier 1. The winner of that match will then go on to feature in the final.
Notably, Kashi Rudras won the inaugural edition of the competition and they have been defeated by Meerut Mavericks in the opening game of the competition. Meanwhile, a lot of star players in the form of Rinku Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nitish Rana, Dhruv Jurel, Sameer Rizvi and Mohsin Khan will be featuring in the tournament.
UPT20 2024 Squads
Kashi Rudras: Karan Sharma (c). Shiva Singh. Atal Behari Rai. Shivam Mavi. Shivam Bansal. Yashovardhan Singh. Sunil Kumar. Harsh Payal, Ajai Singh. Ghanshyam Upadhiya. Manish Singh Solanki, Karan Chaudhary, Mohammad Shavaz, Almas Shaukat, Arnanav Baliyan, Vansh, Jasmer Dhankar, Prince Yadav
Meerut Mavericks: Rinku Singh (c), Madhav Kaushik, Swastik Chikara, Uvaish Ahmed, Rituraj Sharma, Divyansh Joshi, Vijay Kumar, Yash Garg, Md. Jamshed Alam, Shubhanker Shukla, Rajat Sanserwal, Yuvraj Yadav, Divyansh Rajput, Zeeshan Ansari, Shiven Malhotra, Yogendra Doyla, Dipanshu Yadav, Akshay Sain
Lucknow Falcons: Bhuvneshwar Kumar (c), Priyam Garg, Aaradhya Yadav, Sameer Choudhary, Samarth Singh, Vipraj Nigam, Ankur Chauhan, Parv Singh, Aditya Kumar Singh, Prashant Choudhary, Kamil Khan, Parth Palawat, Kirti Vardhan Upadhyay, Shubhang Raj, Akshu Bajwa, Harsh Tyagi, Kritagya Kumar Singh
Kanpur Super Stars: Sameer Rizvi (c), Vineet Panwar, Mohsin Khan, Shoaib Siddiqui, Shaurya Singh, Ankur Malik, Inzamam Hussain, Adarsh Singh, Aaqib Khan, Shubham Mishra, Nadeem, Osho Mohan, Kuldeep Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Asif Ali, Sudhanshu Sonkar, Mohammad Aashiyan, Rishabh Rajput
Gorakhpur Lions: Dhruv Jurel (c), Abhishek Goswami, Shivam Sharma, Abdul Rehman, Hardeep Singh, Siddharth Yadav, Yash Dayal, Saurabh Kumar, Ankit Chaudhary, Yashu Pradhan, Ankit Rajpoot, Aryan Jurel, Rohit Dwivedi, Ansh Dwivedi, Vineet Dubey, Kaartikaya Singh, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Akshdeep Nath
Noida Super Kings: Nitish Rana (c), Prashant Veer, Aditya Sharma, Bobby Yadav, Mohd.
Sharim, Kavya Teotia, Piyush Chawla, Mohd. Amaan, Naman Tiwari, Shanu Saini, Ajay Kumar, Vishal Pandey, Rahul Rajpal, Manav Sindhu, Rahul Raj, Shivam Saraswat, Kunal Tyagi, Kartikeya Yadav
Also Check: UPT20 League 2024 Points Table
UPT20 Schedule
Date | Match | Time |
August 25 | Kashi Rudras vs Meerut Mavericks | 8 pm IST |
August 26 | Gorakhpur Lions vs Noida Kings | 3 pm IST |
August 26 | Lucknow Falcons vs Kanpur Superstars | 7:30 pm IST |
August 27 | Kashi Rudras vs Gorakhpur Lions | 3:30 pm IST |
August 27 | Kanpur Superstars vs Meerut Mavericks | 7:30 pm IST |
August 28 | Lucknow Falcons vs Noida Kings | 3:30 pm IST |
August 28 | Kashi Ridras vs Kanpur Superstars | 7:30 pm IST |
August 29 | Gorakhpur Lions vs Lucknow Falcons | 3:30 pm IST |
August 29 | Noida Kings vs Meerut Mavericks | 7:30 pm IST |
August 30 | Lucknow Falcons vs Kashi Rudras | 3:30 pm IST |
August 30 | Kanpur Superstars vs Noida Kings | 7:30 pm IST |
August 31 | Gorakhpur Lions vs Meerut Mavericks | 3:30 pm IST |
August 31 | Noida Kings vs Kashi Rudras | 7:30 pm IST |
September 1 | Lucknow Falcons vs Meerut Mavericks | 3:30 pm IST |
September 1 | Gorakhpur Lions vs Kanpur Superstars | 7:30 pm IST |
September 2 | Meerut Mavericks vs Kashi Rudras | 3:30 pm IST |
September 2 | Noida Kings vs Gorakhpur Lions | 7:30 pm IST |
September 3 | Kanpur Superstars vs Lucknow Falcons | 3:30 pm IST |
September 3 | Gorakhpur Lions vs Kashi Rudras | 7:30 pm IST |
September 4 | Meerut Mavericks vs Kanpur Superstars | 3:30 pm IST |
September 4 | Noida Kings vs Lucknow Falcons | 7:30 pm IST |
September 5 | Kanpur Superstars vs Kashi Rudras | 3:30 pm IST |
September 5 | Lucknow Falcons vs Gorakhpur Lions | 7:30 pm IST |
September 6 | Meerut Mavericks vs Noida Kings | 3:30 pm IST |
September 6 | Kashi Rudras vs Lucknow Falcons | 7:30 pm IST |
September 7 | Noida Kings vs Kanpur Superstars | 3:30 pm IST |
September 7 | Meerut Mavericks vs Gorakhpur Lions | 7:30 pm IST |
September 8 | Kashi Rudras vs Noida Kings | 3:30 pm IST |
September 8 | Meerut Mavericks vs Lucknow Falcons | 7:30 pm IST |
September 9 | Kanpur Superstars vs Gorakhpur Lions | 7:30 pm IST |
September 11 | Qualifier 1 | 3:30 pm IST |
September 10 | Eliminator | 7:30 pm IST |
September 12 | Qualifier 2 | 7:30 pm IST |
September 14 | Final | 7:30 pm IST |
UPT20 Where to watch
Fans can watch the second edition of the UPT20 on JioCinema and FanCode.