2016 Masters Champions League

The 2016 Masters Champions League season will be the inaugural season of the Masters Champions League, established by Grand Midwest Sports, under the auspecies of the Emirates Cricket Board in 2016. The season will be commenced on 28 January 2016 with the final match on 13 February. The competition will have a triple round robin group stage, in which each of the 6 teams is scheduled to played a home match and an away match against every other team, followed by two semi-finals and a final. The MCL will take place over two weeks in Dubai and Sharjah.

Player auctions

(Note. Captains are marked in bold and icon players are marked in italics)

Libra Legends

• Sourav Ganguly - Undisclosed

• Jacques Kallis - $175,000

• Brad Hogg - $68,000

• Graeme Swann - Undisclosed

• Ryan Ten Doeschate - $76,000

• Ajay Ratra - $20,000

• Chris Read - $20,000

• Sean Ervine - $60,000

• Shaun Tait - $60,000

• Ryan Sidebottom - $32,000

• Taufeeq Umar - $28,000

• Michael Lumb - $118,000

• Marcus North - $30,000

• Nicky Boje - Undisclosed

• Ian Butler - Undisclosed

Gemini Arabians

• Virender Sehwag - Undisclosed

• Muttiah Muralitharan - $100,000

• Kyle Mills - $42,000

• Saqlain Mushtaq - $42,000

• Kumar Sangakkara - Undisclosed

• Jacques Rudolph - $58,000

• Rana Naved-ul-Hasan - $38,000

• Justin Kemp - $70,000

• Paul Harris - $20,000

• Brad Hodge - $120,000

• Richard Levi - $152,000

• Ashish Bagai - $10,000

• Graham Onions - $56,000

• Shivnarine Chanderpaul- $30,000

• Saqib Ali- $10,000

Sagittarius Strikers

• Adam Gilchrist - $170,000

• Mahela Jayawardene - Undisclosed

• Daniel Vettori - Undisclosed

• Michael Carberry - $42,000

• Tino Best - $42,000

• Krishmar Santokie - $35,000

• Jonathan Trott - $30,000

• Yasir Hameed - $30,000

• Mushtaq Ahmed - $30,000

• Nathan Hauritz - $20,000

• Shane BOND - $30,000

• Alviro Petersen - $28,000

• Phil Mustard - $26,000

• Khurram Khan - $22,000

• Gavin Hamilton - $20,000

Virgo Super Kings

• Graeme Smith - Undisclosed

• Brett Lee - $100,000

• Owais Shah - $75,000

• Jacob Oram - $74,000

• Murali Kartik - $52,000

• Neil McKenzie - $52,000

• Azhar Mahmood - Undisclosed

• Dirk Nannes - $40,000

• Jonty Rhodes - $40,000

• Malinga Bandara - $35,000

• John Mooney - $31,000

• Mohammad Yousuf - $30,000

• James Foster - $29,000

• Hasan Raza - $20,000

• Humayun Farhat - $20,000

• Gareth Batty - $20,000

Capricorn Commanders

• Paul Collingwood - $100,000

• Andrew Symonds - $80,000

• Chamara Silva - $30,000

• Ashwell Prince - $39,000

• Upul Chandana - $30,000

• Michael Vaughan - Undisclosed

• Abdul Razzaq - Undisclosed

• Ryan McLaren - $64,000

• Jeetan Patel - $56,000

• Rikki Clarke - $42,000

• Rory Kleinveldt - $32,000

• Ben Laughlin - $57,000

• Rizwan Cheema - $16,000

• Geraint Jones - Undisclosed

• Sunil Joshi - Undisclosed

• Saleem Elahi - Undisclosed

Leo Lions

• Brian Lara - $100,000

• Herschelle Gibbs - $40,000

• Brendan Taylor - $70,000

• James Franklin - $62,000

• Johan Botha - $46,000

• Robin Peterson - $80,000

• Fidel Edwards - $90,000

• Scott Styris - Undisclosed

• Heath Streak - Undisclosed

• Mohammad Tauqir - Undisclosed

• Neil Carter - $10,000

• Hamish Marshall - $28,000

• Kyle Jarvis - $28,000

• Ramesh Powar - $40,000

• Simon Jones - Undisclosed

• Darren Gough - Undisclosed

Venues

Teams

Standings

(Tied matches will be decided by a Super Over)

• Top 4 teams will qualify for the knockout stage

• advance to the semi finals

Fixtures

The fixtures and time table of first MCL 2016 EDition was declared on 20 December 2015.

League Stage

Semi Finals

The top four teams from the group stage will qualify for the semi finals.

Final

The winners of the 2 semi-finals will qualify for the final.