This time we hear from our new signing Tymal Mills. For Tymal, it’s a return to the Vipers fold as he was a part of the squad in season one, only for his involvement to be cut short when he suffered a recurrence of a toe injury. Tymal earned a place in the England T20I squad for the tour of the West Indies before Christmas, and his inclusion for the DP World ILT20 is great news for the Vipers as the squad is compensating for losing one outstanding bowler by drafting in another.

At Desert Vipers we have developed a keen awareness of our own air travel’s impact through our work on calculating our carbon footprint, so we thought we'd share some of our newfound insight in today’s blog. Here’s hoping that your meal of choice and associated chat are not so dry that this comes up as a topic of discussion for you before January, but ahead of the big day, here is some of what we learnt. 

In this episode, we chat with the father of Bas de Leede, the Dutch all-rounder and one of the Vipers’ new recruits for season two. We decided to have a chat with Tim de Leede about Bas’s background and how his son has risen to become one of the most exciting young all-rounders in world cricket today.

In this episode of Vipers Voices, Adam Hose joined us for a chat while he was in the UAE for the T10 tournament prior to heading off to Australia to play in the Big Bash League, and in a wide-ranging conversation, he explained why he thinks red ball cricket has helped his white-ball form, his own motivations and what he thinks he can bring to the table for the Vipers in the coming season.

In the blog last week we talked about the importance of carbon emissions measurement. In follow up this week in our first first guest blog, we hand over to the experts from Carbon Happy World to provide their own view on the exercise that we went through together. Ben Hardy-Jones provides the Dubai Sustainability Spotlight, detailing his experience with Ethara at the Formula 1 Etihad Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Pakistan pace ace Shoaib Akhtar and ILT20 CEO David White lend support to the Vipers Community outreach tournament the Viper Cup