Dubai: Three-time Ashes-winning England skipper Paul Collingwood was on Tuesday named captain of the Capricorn Commanders franchise in the Masters Champions League (MCL) T20 cricket tournament.


Paul Collingwood. Pic/Suresh KK

MCL, a Twenty20 cricket league, will be made up of six teams in its first year in 2016, with a total of 90 players taking part -- 15 members per squad. The players must all have been former international cricketers who are now retired from all forms of the professional sport.