Amitabh Bachchan Takes Over Mumbai Team for ISPL League

Mumbai: Legendary cine-star Amitabh Bachchan on Monday announced that he is getting associated with the Indian Street Premier League (ISPL) as the owner of team Mumbai.

The ISPL will be India’s first tennis ball T10 cricket tournament to be played in a stadium. It will be played from March 2 to March 9 in Mumbai.

The tournament will feature 19 matches between six teams – Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, and Srinagar. Actors Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan were announced as the team owners of Srinagar and Bengaluru, respectively.

T 4864 – What an exciting and most noble, filled with courage and care, concept, the initiation of the ISPL – the Street Premier league !

An opportunity for them that exhibited their capacity on the streets, gullies and make shift home made pitches to play cricket ,  now to… pic.twitter.com/RtI0O6h8zl

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) December 18, 2023

In a post on X, 81-year-old Bachchan said, “For me an honour and a privilege to be with Mumbai as Team Owner, and to be privy to the surge of talent erupt, for a grand visionary future.”

“An opportunity for them that exhibited their capacity on the streets, gullies and makeshift home made pitches to play cricket,  now to get selected for a team professionally and exhibit their talent in formal setups before the millions the world over  !” he added.