West Indies legend Chris Gayle has been introduced because the co-owner of a Glasgow-based franchise collaborating on this summer season’s inaugural European T20 Premier League (ETPL).
Gayle has partnered with Mugafi Group, an India-based leisure enterprise, with the staff to be referred to as the Glasgow Mugafians.
An funding group led by Rahul Dravid and Ravichandran Ashwin had been initially anticipated to take possession of the ETPL’s Glasgow franchise.
Nonetheless, BBC Sport has been instructed they’re set to pivot their curiosity to the staff based mostly out of Dublin as an alternative.
Gayle, 46, performed 103 Checks, 301 ODIs and 79 T20 internationals for West Indies between 1999 and 2021 and has been one of the vital recognisable faces in franchise cricket.
“Entering into the function of co-owner of Glasgow Mugafians marks an thrilling new chapter for me,” Gayle mentioned.
“Europe represents cricket’s closing frontier, and the ETPL has the potential to unravel promising native expertise and nurture future heroes who will strengthen the game in that area. I can not wait to get began on this new journey.”
The ETPL is being run in collaboration with the cricket boards of Eire, Scotland and the Netherlands with groups based mostly out of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Bollywood actor and movie producer Abhishek Bachchan is a part-owner of the league together with Guidelines Sport Tech, a non-public Indian firm.
As reported by BBC Sport earlier this yr, the franchises have been offered for £11.1m ($15m) over a 10-year interval.
The match is about to be performed from 26 August to twenty September.
