The Knight Riders staff, who personal Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) within the Indian Premier League (IPL), has obtained their fourth staff in T20 franchise cricket and it is going to be based totally out of Abu Dhabi within the upcoming UAE T20 league.

The Shah Rukh Khan co-owned staff is total the 5th Indian to obtain a franchise within the UAE T20 League. The opposite house owners of the high-profile pageant are Mukesh Ambani of RIL, Gautam Adani of the Adani Staff, the Glazer circle of relatives of Manchester United, Kiran Kumar Granthi of Delhi Capitals (DC) and Rajesh Sharma of Capri World.

“During the last decade, the Knight Riders Staff has develop into a family identify in T20 cricket. After organising Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2008 within the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Knight Riders become house owners of the Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) within the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in 2015,” the Knight Riders mentioned of their professional commentary.

Expressing his satisfaction over the purchase of a brand new staff, Shah Rukh mentioned: “For a number of years now, we have now been increasing the Knight Riders emblem globally and carefully staring at the possibility of T20 cricket within the UAE. We’re occupied with changing into a part of UAE’s T20 League, which undoubtedly will develop into vastly a success.”

After this announcement, all franchises are actually on board for the six-team league which might be performed in January subsequent yr.