Sachin Tendulkar will lead defending champions India Legends in the second season of the Road Safety World Series (RSWS) which is scheduled to start on September 10 and will continue till October 1 of this year. The matches of the championship will be held in Kanpur, Raipur, Indore and Dehradun. Opening match of series will be held Kanpur, while semi-finals and final will take place in Raipur.
Master Blaster Tendulkar had led India Legends to win in the inaugural season of the RSWS against Sri Lanka Legends in the final in 2020. The season had to complete two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Now in the second season, The New Zealand Legends will be the new team in the series. Earlier there were seven teams- Legends of India, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa, Bangladesh, and England in the first season in 2020. After joining New Zealand there will be eight teams in this edition of the tournament.
RSWS official informed on Twitter about newcomer team. they wrote,
The @RSWorld series gets bigger with the new season as the @NZealandLegends get ready to take the field!
RSWS
The championships is supported by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and the Ministry of Information & Technology and Youth Affairs & Sports Government of India. 27th Sports, backed by US-based 27th Investments, are the exclusive marketing rights holder of the championships, while Professionals Management Group (PMG) is the event management partner.
As every year in India, one person dies in every four minutes. Every hundred people dying in the world, 30 are Indians. It is more alarming that as per the World Research Institute, the death toll in road accidents every year will reach 2.2 million and 50 per cent will be Indians. So, the objective behind the Road Safety World Series is to make aware people in India and about road safety.
Road Safety World Series is a very good initiative to spread awareness among people through cricket as it is the most popular sport. We want to aware every individual of the country, and obey every rule and regulation of the road, said Nitin Gadkari, the union minister of Road, Transport and Highways of India.
Nitin Gadkari
A brief details of RSWS 2022:
- Start on September 10 and will continue till October 1
- To be held in Kanpur, Raipur, Indore and Dehradun
- There will be eight teams- Legends of India, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa, Bangladesh, England, New Zealand
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