Colombo, Nov. 14 -- Test Twenty, the world's first mixed-gender cricket tournament, was launched at a star-studded ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday night.

The evening was attended by former Australian cricketer and legendary batter Matthew Hayden, former Sri Lankan stalwart Russel Arnold, and Virat Kohli's childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma, setting the stage for a 10-match inaugural season that runs from 14 to 29 November, a release said.

Cricket's evolution reaches its next frontier with Test Twenty, the world's first 80-over format. Each team plays two innings of 20 overs, with first-innings scores carried forward into the second. Completed within a single day, a Test Twenty match fuses the strategy of Test cricket with the int...