The Karnataka State Cricket Association’s brand new T20 offering, the Maharaja Trophy KSCA T20 tournament, will be held from August 7 to 26, it was announced on Saturday.
The competition, which will begin in Mysuru and move to Bengaluru, will replace the Karnataka Premier League (KPL) that ran for eight seasons until 2019 before a match-fixing and betting scandal grounded it.
The tournament will feature six teams from the Mysuru, Shivamogga, Hubballi, Raichur, Mangaluru and Bengaluru regions. But unlike KPL, the Maharaja Trophy will not be franchise based with team owners, but only team sponsors. They include Kalyani Motors, Cycle Pure Agarbathies, Fiza Developers among others.