Robin Uthappa named captain of India for Hong Kong sixes tournament

This year’s variation hosts 12 teams including India’s arch-rivals Pakistan. The different teams acceptable to vie successful the 3-day tourney are Australia, Bangladesh, England, Hong Kong, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, South Africa, Sri Lanka and United Arab Emirates.

The tourney started successful 1992 and went connected a hiatus aft the 2017 variation which makes the 2024 variation the archetypal 1 successful 7 years.

🚨SQUAD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

Here’s India’s Squad for the upcoming Hong Kong Sixes!

Look guardant to an breathtaking tourney wherever The Men successful Blue volition showcase their astonishing skills and lively energy!

Expect More Teams, More Sixes, More Excitement, and MAXIMUM THRILLS! 🔥🔥

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— Cricket Hong Kong, China (@CricketHK) October 12, 2024

Players specified arsenic Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Shane Warne, Wasim Akram, Shoaib Malik, Sanath Jayasuriya, Anil Kumble, Umar Akmal, Glenn Maxwell and Damien Martyn person plied their commercialized successful this tourney with Pakistan, England and South Africa being the astir palmy teams.

India person besides won the full happening successful 2005 portion Sri Lanka, Australia and West Indies are immoderate of the different winners.

What makes the tourney absorbing is that determination are a clump of caller rules which makes for an absorbing match, mostly predicated connected powerfulness hitting.

Here are the rules:

* The matches are played betwixt 2 teams of six players with each crippled consisting of a maximum of 5 overs for each side. The last match, however, volition person each squad vessel 5 overs which volition dwell of 8 balls, up from the 6 successful mean matches.

* Except the wicket-keeper, each subordinate of the fielding broadside volition person to vessel 1 implicit portion wides and no-balls number arsenic 2 runs.

* If 5 wickets autumn earlier the stipulated 5 overs person ended, the past batter volition bat with the 5th batter acting arsenic a runner. The batter who is not retired volition person to beryllium connected onslaught astatine each times and the innings volition reason erstwhile helium falls.

* If 5 wickets autumn earlier 5 overs are completed, the past remaining batsman bats connected with the 5th batsman acting arsenic a runner. He ever takes strike. The innings is implicit erstwhile the sixth wicket falls.

* Batsmen are forced to discontinue astatine 31, but tin travel backmost successful erstwhile each different batsmen person been dismissed oregon person retired