Rogers, Dravid to star for MCC in English opener

Australia’s Chris Rogers will captain an MCC side featuring India good Rahul Dravid, seen here in 2010, opposite hold up county Nottinghamshire.
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Australia’s Chris Rogers will captain an MCC side featuring India good Rahul Dravid opposite hold up county Nottinghamshire, it was voiced Tuesday.

For a second year in a quarrel a normal curtain-raiser to a English season, a four-day diversion from Mar 27-30, will be played in Abu Dhabi.

“I was gay to be invited to fool around in this match, as well as to be asked to captain is a outrageous honour,” pronounced Victoria batsman Rogers, who assimilated Middlesex from Derbyshire in a tighten season.

“The side boasts an huge volume of talent, as well as we am unequivocally seeking brazen to assembly my team-mates, as well as personification for MCC for a initial time in this ancestral fixture.”

MCC will additionally see dual Afghanistan internationals, Hamid Hassan as well as Mohammad Nabi, in a squad.

This compare will again be played underneath floodlights, regulating pinkish balls as well as with players wearing normal whites, in a bid to rise a box for day/night Tests.

MCC will additionally fool around in a five-team Twenty20 foe in Dubai where a side will be led by former India captain Sourav Ganguly.

MCC squad:

Chris Rogers (Middlesex as well as AUS, capt), Steven Davies (Surrey as well as ENG, wkt), Rahul Dravid (IND — Champion County tie only), Sourav Ganguly (IND — Twenty20 only), Hamid Hassan (AFG), Simon Jones (Hampshire as well as ENG), Gary Keedy (Lancashire), Steve Kirby (Somerset), Dawid Malan (Middlesex), Stephen Moore (Lancashire), Mohammad Nabi (AFG), Stephen Peters (Northamptonshire), Toby Roland-Jones (Middlesex), Omar Ali (MCC Young Cricketer)