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 –

Sachin Tendulkar Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (; ; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international cricketer who captained the Indian national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the all time highest run-sco ...

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and

Shane Warne Shane Keith Warne (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian international cricketer, whose career ran from 1991 to 2007. Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire and Australi ...

of Australia.

Teams

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

and Warne's Warriors led by

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

; 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,

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in Chicago and

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in New York were booked as venues, along with

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in Los Angeles. However, in October 2015, the former two venues were replaced by

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' home ballpark

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and Houston Astros' 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 drop-in pitches in Minneapolis to be delivered to the three stadiums.

Umpires

Marais Erasmus from South Africa who is currently a member of the

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and

Simon Taufel Simon James Arthur Taufel (born 21 January 1971) is a former Australian cricket umpire who was earlier a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel. He won five consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards between 2004 and 2008, and was generally cons ...

and

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from Australia who were former (now retired) members of the

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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