T20 match to be organised in Surat

Surat, Feb 17 (UNI) While the IPL is from March 12, Cricket enthusiasts here would get to experience the excitment of T20 game much before the scheduled start of the tournament. The reason, city based industrialists have decided to organise a benefit match having various star players of the T20 format. Two teams have been formed which will be captained by Sachin Tendulkar and Virendra Sehwag respectively. T20 match would be held at Lalbhai Contractor Stadium on March 7, which is sponsored by a diamond exporting firm, H Vinod & Co. The match would have all the characteristics of IPL - cheerleaders to special music programme during the three hour play. However, the game would not be a day-night one. Apart from Sachin and Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, Ajit Agarkar, Ishant Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Parthiv Patel, Harbhajan Singh, Wasim Jaffar and Siddharth Patel would also participate in the match.