New signing for ILT20 2025 Lockie Ferguson, Fakhar Zaman, Shai Hope, Roston Chase
Dubai, 19 September 2024: Season 3 of the DP World International League T20 promises thrilling cricket action as top players join the six teams as fresh recruits in New signing for ILT20 2025. The signing period for new talent started in June and ended on Sunday, September 15th, setting the stage for an exciting tournament ahead.
Season 3 New signings in ILT20 2025
Season 3 will feature New signing for ILT20 2025 talents making their DP World ILT20 debuts, thrilling fans in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah.
New stars include:
- Jason Roy (Sharjah Warriors)
- Fakhar Zaman (Desert Vipers)
- Shai Hope (Dubai Capitals)
- Lockie Ferguson (Desert Vipers)
- Roston Chase (Abu Dhabi Knight Riders)
- Matthew Wade (Sharjah Warriorz)
- Ibrahim Zadran (Gulf Giants)
- Romario Shepherd (MI Emirates).
Dubai Dynamos is back
Ben Stokes, England’s brilliant all-rounder, makes a return back to the league for Dubai Dynamos after featuring for Falcons in the first season of the league.Stokes, who returned to Test cricket this year, is great with both bat and ball.ter playing for the Falcons in Season 1. Stokes, who made his Test comeback this year, great in form with bat and ball.
- The left-arm seamer played five tests during the English summer of 2024 and was able to secure 28 wickets.
- Pace bowler and English T20I captain Chris Woakes tied up for the Season 1 runners-up, Desert Lions.
- Woakes has been part of the Falcons team in the past.
Abu Dhabi knight riders
Abu Dhabi Knight Riders featured in Eliminator in the Season 2 and all set to start Season 3 with star studded roster. Previously they have providedrigidities to their squad by including West Indianplayers namely Roston Chase, the batting-all-rounder and Gudakesh Motie, theleft-arm spinner.
Chase and Motie are players with great performance for the host nation of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup this year. It gave their supporters the assurance that the Knight Riders’ prospects will improve during the next season.
Besides, ADKR have picked rising Afghan bowler Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar, young American all-rounder Hassan Khan, who was the captain of the Pakistan U-19 team, and West Indies’ medium pacer Terrance Hinds.
Desert vipers
The Desert Vipers had six players from Season 1 and they managed to sign some talented new players for their team. Pakistani opener Fakhar who was excellent in the 2023 ICC Men’s ODI World Cup and participated in the 2024 T20 Cup also belong to this list of players.
Finally, Lockie Ferguson from New Zealand with aggressive bowling line up will join Vipers squad in Season 3. Ferguson made T20 history at the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, delivering an unforgettable spell against Papua New Guinea: what was giving him a four over rate, four maidens, three wickets.
Three English players round out the Vipers’ new signings for Season 3: ILT20 2025 new faces Dan Lawrence, Max Holden who represented Dubai Capitals previously in season 2 and David Payne.
Season 2 finalists
Dubai Capitals, which were the finalists of the second season, will bring truly serious teams to the third season. Another addition to the batting pool is West Indies wicketkeeper batter Shai Hope. Tahir’s consistently impressive ODI record – 124 matches, 16 centuries at 50.26. They also played for Hope in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.
Picking up the form in Sri Lanka’s recently concluded ODI series against India, right-arm wrist spinner, Jeffrey Vandersay has joined the franchise while Afghan all-rounder Gulbadin Naib (Afghanistan T20 World Cup 2024 team), West Indian fast bowler Obed McCoy (Windies T20 World Cup 2024 team), and Aussie batsman Joe Burns, now an Italian Associate player.
English batter Joe Weatherley, Scottish batsman Brandon McMullen (Scotland T20 World Cup 2024 contender, ADKR season 2 winner), Sri Lankan fast bowler Garuka Sanketh, English wicketkeeper batsman Adam Rossington, Kiwi fast bowler Scott Kuggeleijn (who returns for Season 3) and Afghan left arm spinner Sharafuddin Ashraf. Both newcomers strengthen the Capitals’ lineup for the next season and add international experience as well as youth to the roster.
First season champions
The Gulf Giants, the team that clinched the first season crown has signed the Afghan opener Ibrahim Zadran for the third season of the league. Ibrahim excelled in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 where he made 231 runs from eight innings a position that ranked him fifth.
To that list, the addition of English fast bowler Tymal Mills who was with the Desert Vipers in Seasons 1&2, Irish pacer Mark Adair, Afghan spinner Wahidullah Zadran, English top-order batter Adam Lyth, and of course Curran. West Indies Left arm fast bowler Dominic Drakes who featured for Giants in Season 1 & 2 is back with the team.
MI emirates signing Romario shepherd
MI Emirates have added yet another strong player to their team that is already star-studded; Romario Shepherd, theWI all-rounder who has made his name for himself as a match-winner in the shortest format of the game. Shepherd is confirmed in West Indies T20 squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.
New faces at MI Emirates consist of Tom Banton from Gulf Giants Season 1, and Season 2 Dubai Capitals, Fast bowler Fareed Ahmad from Afghanistan, Italy’s Thomas Draca, and Ben Charlesworth from England.
Sharjah Warriors in DP world ILT 20
The Sharjah Warriors, yet to reach the DP World ILT20 playoffs, have assembled a star-studded squad for Season 3. Their new signings are led by the English trio of Jason Roy (2019 ODI World Cup winner), leg-spinner Adil Rashid (rehired for Season 3), and Atkinson. Roy has scored over 9000 runs in his illustrious T20 career.
Australian wicketkeeper-batter Matthew Wade, part of Australia’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 squad, brings vast experience to the team with 5050 T20 runs and 162 dismissals behind the stumps.
Season 3 acquisitions
Other Season 3 pick-up include New Zealand fast bowler Adam Milne, New Zealand experienced wicketkeeper-batter Tim Seifert, Australian left arm spinner Ashton Agar (part of Australia’s T20 World Cup 2024 team), Afghan all-round Karim Janat (part of Afghanistan’s T20 World Cup 2024 team, Gulf Giants Season 2), West Indian all-rounder Keemo Paul, Sri
Any given team has the right to add additional players or substitutes in their team as per the ILT20 Technical Committee. They can also sign more UAE talents through a Draft after the DP World ILT20 Development Tournament in the next month. Exactly about the tournament the additional information will be announced later.
The six DP World ILT20 Season 3 squads as of 19 September 2024:
Abu Dhabi Knight Riders
New signees: Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar, Gudakesh Motie, Hassan Khan, Roston Chase and Terrance Hinds.
Retentions: Aditya Shetty, Ali Khan, Alishan Sharafu, Andre Russell, Andries Ghous, Charith Asalanka, David Willey, Joe Clarke, Laurie Evans, Michael Pepper and Sunil Narine.
Desert Vipers
New signees: Dan Lawrence, David Payne, Fakhar Zaman, Lockie Ferguson and Max Holden.
Retentions: Adam Hose, Alex Hales, Ali Naseer, Azam Khan, Bas de Leede, Luke Wood, Michael Jones, Mohammad Amir, Nathan Sowter, Sherfane Rutherford, Tanish Suri and Wanindu Hasaranga.
Dubai Capitals
New signees: Adam Rossington, Brandon McMullen, Garuka Sanketh, Gulbadin Naib, Jeffrey Vandersay, Joe Burns, Joe Weatherley, Najibullah Zadran, Obed McCoy, Scott Kuggeleijn, Sharafuddin Ashraf and Shai Hope.
Retentions: Dasun Shanaka, David Warner, Dushmantha Chameera, Haider Ali, Raja Akif, Rovman Powell, Sam Billings, Sikandar Raza, Zahir Khan, Jake Fraser-McGurk and Oliver Stone.
Gulf Giants
New signees: Adam Lyth, Dominic Drakes, Daniel Worrall, Ibrahim Zadran, Mark Adair, Tom Curran, Tymal Mills and Wahidullah Zadran.
Retentions: Aayan Afzal Khan, Blessing Muzarabani, Chris Jordan, Dipendra Singh Airee, Gerhard Erasmus, Jamie Overton, James Vince, Jamie Smith, Jordan Cox, Mohammad Zuhaib Zubair, Rehan Ahmed, and Shimron Hetmyer.
MI Emirates
New signees: Romario Shepherd, Tom Banton, Fareed Ahmad, Thomas Jack Draca, Ben Charlesworth.
Retentions: Akeal Hosein, Andre Fletcher, Daniel Mousley, Dwayne Bravo, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Jordan Thompson, Kieron Pollard, Kusal Perera, Muhammad Rohid Khan, Muhammad Waseem, Nicholas Pooran, Nosthush Kenjige, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth and Waqar Salamkheil.
Sharjah Warriorz
New signees: Adam Milne, Adil Rashid (played for Warriorz in Season 2 as a Wildcard pick), Ashton Agar, Avishka Fernando, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Daniel Sams, Gus Atkinson, Harmeet Singh, Jason Roy, Karim Janat, Keemo Paul, Matthew Wade, Virandeep Singh and Tim Seifert.
Retentions: Dilshan Madushanka, Johnson Charles, Junaid Siddique, Muhammad Jawadullah, Kusal Mendis, Luke Wells, Peter Hatzoglou and Tom Kohler-Cadmore.
