Awards

Squads

The two captains selected their respective squads by randomly drawing out the player names on 5 November 2015 at Times Square.^[5]

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Sachin's Blasters S/N Player name[6] Age during series 10 Sachin Tendulkar (c) 42 44 Virender Sehwag 37 21 VVS Laxman 41 9 Brian Lara 46 2 Sourav Ganguly 43 27 Mahela Jayawardene 38 4 Carl Hooper 48 05 Moin Khan (wk) 44 800 Muttiah Muralitharan 43 7 Graeme Swann 36 32 Curtly Ambrose 52 7 Shaun Pollock 42 11 Glenn McGrath 45 69 Lance Klusener 44 21 Shoaib Akhtar 40

Warne's Warriors S/N Player name[7] Age during series 23 Shane Warne (c) 46 28 Matthew Hayden 44 99 Michael Vaughan 41 14 Ricky Ponting 40 8 Jonty Rhodes 46 3 Jacques Kallis 40 63 Andrew Symonds 40 84 Kumar Sangakkara (wk) 38 09 Saqlain Mushtaq 38 15 Daniel Vettori 36 12 Courtney Walsh 53 1 Wasim Akram 49 33 Allan Donald 49 13 Ajit Agarkar 37 72 Shane Bond 40

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Venues

All three matches of the series played in baseball stadiums. Initially in June 2015, Wrigley Field in Chicago and Yankee Stadium in New York were booked as venues, along with Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.^[8] However, in October 2015, the former two venues were replaced by New York Mets' home ballpark Citi Field and Houston Astros' home ballpark Minute Maid Park. The first match was a day game in New York, while the second and third played under lights in Houston and Los Angeles respectively.^[9]

A curator from New Zealand was hired to prepare drop-in pitches in Minneapolis to be delivered to the three stadiums.^[10]

Umpires

Marais Erasmus from South Africa who is currently a member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel and Simon Taufel and Steve Davis from Australia who were former (now retired) members of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel are the three experienced umpires who were selected to perform the duties of the on-field umpires and the third umpire in all the three games on a rotation basis.^{[citation needed]}

Fixtures