Mulgrave Cricket Club in talks with Yuvraj Singh, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle for third-tier T20 match

A Melbourne-based group cricket membership is reportedly in talks with former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh, former South Africa captain AB de Villiers and ex-West Indies captains Chris Gayle and Brian Lara for his or her upcoming T20 match.

Mulgrave Cricket Club president Malin Pullenayegam has claimed that they’re making an attempt to rope within the retired legends to play for them within the Eastern Cricket Association (ECA), a third-tier competitors in Melbourne.Mulgrave Cricket Club have already secured the companies of former Sri Lankan superstars Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga whereas ex-skipper Sanath Jayasuriya will likely be their head coach.”We’ve secured Dilshan, we’ve secured Sanath, we’ve secured Tharanga. And now we are working on finalising agreements with a few other potential players,” Pullenayegam advised cricket.com.au.”We are in negotiations, and with Chris (Gayle) and Yuvraj we are nearly 85 to 90 per cent there. We need to finalise a few things but it looks really good.”The membership nonetheless, is securing extra sponsors for the workforce in order that they will signal the aforementioned high-profile names.”We are still looking for more sponsors to back us up, there is a fair financial commitment for a local cricket club,” Pullenayegam stated.The ECA’s T20 Cup will see 3 preliminary matches earlier than a knock-out section of as much as 3 extra video games, all slotted in among the many one- and two-day fixtures between November and February.”We’ve got a good backing at the moment that will get us across the line, but we don’t want to be just breaking even on it, we want to be able to give back the community and expand the structure of the club.”It’s a course of, with these big-name gamers there’s a variety of issues we have to incorporate into their visits to Australia: we’ll present them with lodging, their journey, meals etcetera, there’s a variety of background stuff we have to organise for them.”While here we want to put them in contact with our sponsors and see if they can give something back to the club and sponsors. So it’s all part of the negotiations and chats we are having with them.”A bit extra monetary backing can be a lot appreciated, however the publicity now we have gotten thus far is giving us a variety of curiosity, we’re strategising and placing issues in place so we will capitalise and construct on this wave for the following 5 – 6 years.”Yuvraj and Lara each performed cricket Down Under final yr in February throughout a charity match between Ponting XI and Gilchrist XI to lift funds for Australia’s bushfire victims. Yuvi and Lara additionally featured within the Road Safety Series in India earlier this yr.