Manchester United to field cricket team in UAE T20 league

Manchester United will soon ha’ve a cricket team that is set to roll from 2023 at the UA’E T20 league. Dubai Sports Council chairman Sheikh Manso’or Bin Mohammed has confirmed the development vi’a a tweet.

“I met with Avram Glazer, Co-Ch’airman of Manchester United, today and discussed way’s to work together to further raise Dubai’s profile a’s a global sporting hub. We also discussed the UAE T20 Cri’cket league’s launch in Jan 2023 featuring Manchester Unite’d cricket team & other teams,” Sheikh Mansoor tweeted la’te on Thursday.

Glazer, United’s co-chairman, bou’ght one of the six teams in the UAE T20 league, which is se’t to be launched in January next year. Of late, the Un’ited owners have been showing a keen interest in cricket an’d a closed-shop franchise-based model,

without promotion and relega’tion, is said to be one of the reasons for their interest. How’ever, their attempt to move towards a closed-shop Euro’pean Super League in football fell thro’ugh.

They also failed with their bid’s to buy an Indian Premier League franchise, as the BCCI br’ought in two new teams from this season onwards. After th’at, they turned their attention towards the UAE T20 lea’gue