Dubai, 14 September 2026: The fourth DP World ILT20 Development Tournament begins at the ICC Academy today, with every match available live on FanCode in India.
Viewers in the UAE and wider GCC can watch on the DP World ILT20 Official YouTube channel, @ILT20Official. Styx Sports will carry the tournament across the rest of the world.
Desert Vipers Development face MI Emirates Development at 5pm in the opening match. Gulf Giants Development then meet Dubai Capitals Development at 9pm.
Six teams compete ahead of player auction
The six franchise development teams will play a single-league round-robin competition before the semi-finals and final. All matches will be held at the ICC Academy in Dubai, with the final on 24 September.
Players taking part include Muhammad Waseem of MI Emirates Development; Alishan Sharafu of Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Development; and Desert Vipers Development pair Khuzaima Bin Tanveer and Vriitya Aravind.
Gulf Giants Development’s Aayan Afzal Khan and Sharjah Warriorz Development pair Junaid Siddique and Harpreet Singh Bhatia also feature alongside emerging players.
The DP World ILT20 Season 5 Player Auction is scheduled for 1 October 2026 in Dubai. The development tournament gives established and emerging players an opportunity to put themselves forward; participants from earlier editions have progressed to ILT20 squads.
Live scores are available through the tournament scorecards.
Full tournament schedule
All matches take place at the ICC Academy in Dubai.
Monday, 14 September – 5pm – Desert Vipers Development vs MI Emirates Development
Monday, 14 September – 9pm – Gulf Giants Development vs Dubai Capitals Development
Tuesday, 15 September – 5pm – Dubai Capitals Development vs Sharjah Warriorz Development
Tuesday, 15 September – 9pm – Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Development vs MI Emirates Development
Wednesday, 16 September – 5pm – Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Development vs Gulf Giants Development
Wednesday, 16 September – 9pm – Desert Vipers Development vs Sharjah Warriorz Development
Thursday, 17 September – 5pm – MI Emirates Development vs Dubai Capitals Development
Thursday, 17 September – 9pm – Gulf Giants Development vs Desert Vipers Development
Friday, 18 September – Rest/Training
Saturday, 19 September – 5pm – Sharjah Warriorz Development vs Gulf Giants Development
Saturday, 19 September – 9pm – Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Development vs Dubai Capitals Development
Sunday, 20 September – 5pm – Desert Vipers Development vs Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Development
Sunday, 20 September – 9pm – Sharjah Warriorz Development vs MI Emirates Development
Monday, 21 September – 7pm – Dubai Capitals Development vs Desert Vipers Development
Tuesday, 22 September – 5pm – MI Emirates Development vs Gulf Giants Development
Tuesday, 22 September – 9pm – Sharjah Warriorz Development vs Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Development
Wednesday, 23 September – 5pm – Semi-final 1
Wednesday, 23 September – 9pm – Semi-final 2
Thursday, 24 September – 7pm – Final
Full squads
Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Development: Masood Ul Rahman Gurbaz, Aftab Alam, Falaknoor Noor, Uzair Khan, Awais Ali Shah, Nawodya Wijayakumara, Zia Mukhtar, Usaid Amin, Junaid Khan Afridi, Asel Sigera, Zahid Ali, Ammar Badami, Salman Saleem, Uzair Haider, Ibrar Ahmad, Mayank Choudhary, Alishan Sharafu
Desert Vipers Development: Ayaan Misbah, Nilansh Keswani, Israr Ahmad, Hilal Afghan, Wasim Akram, Harshit Kaushik, Wali Muhammad, Abdul Ghaffar, Taimoor Ali, Punya Bhatia, Zeeshan Abid, Angad Nehru, Harsh Desai, Khuzaima Bin Tanveer, Matiullah Khan, Sanjay Pahal, Vriitya Aravind
Dubai Capitals Development: Akshdeep Nath, Tahir Zaman, Khalid Shah, Zeeshan Naseer, Muhammad Arfan, Saghir Khan, Yayin Rai, Ahmed Tariq, Raees Ahmed, Mohomad Halan, Rahul Chopra, Asif Mohammad Taniwal, Abdul Rahman Nasir, Farhan Khan, Haider Ali, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Jawadullah
Gulf Giants Development: Sohaib Khan, Adeeb Usmani, Awais Ahmed, Sagar Kalyan, Junaid Shamsudheen, Ansh Tandon, Keshav Sharma, Nabeel Aziz, Muhammad Irshad, Samal Udawaththa, Mohammed Faraazuddin, Vaibhav Govekar, Tanish Suri, Albin Alias, Aayan Khan, Haider Razzaq, Zuhaib Zubair
MI Emirates Development: Kona Srikar Bharat, Ali Naseer, Ibrahim Masood, Vishnu Sukumaran, Adithya Shetty, Aryan Lakra, Nasir Faraz, Said Nazeer, Wahab Hassan, Muhammad Sameer, Zenul Abideen, Raizal Nadir, Naseem Khan, Muhammad Waseem, Muhammad Rohid, Usman Khan, Zahoor Khan
Sharjah Warriorz Development: Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Dilan Suraweera, Daniyal Liaquat, Dhruv Parashar, Luqman Faisal, Mohit Kalyan, Uddish Suri, Basil Hameed, Omid Rahman, Hafiz Almas Ayub, Shahid Iqbal, Aftab Javed, Rayan Khan, Ronak Panoly, Anas Malik, Junaid Siddique, Ethan D Souza
