Cricket All-Stars (better known as Cricket All-Stars Series) was an exhibition

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series took place in the

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in 2015. The series features two lineups of renowned retired cricket players from around the world, led by cricket icons –

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and Shane Warne of

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Teams

The All-Stars Series was a set of games played between Sachin's Blasters led by

and Warne's Warriors led by Shane Warne.

List of series

The inaugural series was held across three cities in the

. The second series was announced to be held in September/October 2017 but later it got scrapped due to issues between

& Shane Warne; it hasn't returned thereafter.

Awards

2015 tournament

Squads

The two captains selected their respective squads by randomly drawing out the player names on 5 November 2015 at

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Sachin's Blasters

Warne's Warriors

Venues

All three matches of the series played in baseball stadiums. Initially in June 2015,

Wrigley Field Wrigley Field is a Major League Baseball (MLB) stadium on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home of the Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises. It first opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park for Charles Weeghman's Chicago Wh ...

in Chicago and

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in New York were booked as venues, along with Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. However, in October 2015, the former two venues were replaced by

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' home ballpark Citi Field and

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' home ballpark

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. The first match was a day game in New York, while the second and third played under lights in Houston and Los Angeles respectively. A curator from New Zealand was hired to prepare

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es in Minneapolis to be delivered to the three stadiums.

Umpires

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from South Africa who is currently a member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel and Simon Taufel and Steve Davis from Australia who were former (now retired) members of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel are the three experienced umpires who were selected to perform the duties of the on-field umpires and the third umpire in all the three games on a rotation basis.

Fixtures

1st match

2nd match

3rd match

Trophy

The All-Stars Trophy and team shirts were unveiled by Tendulkar and Warne along with their respective team's player rosters, on 5 November 2015 in

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Broadcasting

References

External links

Official website
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