Eight associate tions to lock horns in Desert T20 Tourment

Dubai, Dec 31: The Emirates Cricket Board on Saturday announced a new T20 tourment, with eight Associate tions locking horns from January 14 to 20 at Abu Dhabi's Zayed Cricket Stadium with the semi-fils and fil slated to be held here.

Apart from hosts UAE, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Ireland, mibia, Netherlands, Oman and Scotland will take part in the competition, med the Desert T20 Tourment, which will be played in a round-robin and knockout format, according to a espncricinfo report. "The aim of the tourment is to provide an opportunity for our teams to play more competitive men's T20 cricket," Zayed Abbas, Emirates Cricket Board member, said.

"Each of the participating countries are very close in ICC T20I rankings, so we expect the quality of cricket to be very strong." IANS