Sher E Punjab T20 League 2026: The First Chapter, Preserved Forever

Every sporting league eventually develops a history.

Records are broken. Champions are remembered. Rivalries take shape. Players become legends.

But there is only one first season.

On 30 August 2026, the Sher E Punjab T20 League will begin its franchise era at the I.S. Bindra Stadium in Mohali.

Six franchises.

Six captains.

Twenty seven matches.

Fourteen days.

One inaugural season.

For most people, the season will live through scorecards, photographs, broadcasts and memories.

For LEGXI, the responsibility is different.

As the official Collectibles Partner of the Sher E Punjab T20 League, LEGXI is preserving selected physical pieces of the season while the history is being made.

And at the centre of that programme is the LEGXI Hall of Fame.

Not six bats.

Not six signatures.

But five complete editions of the inaugural league itself.

Each Hall of Fame edition brings together six full size bats, representing all six inaugural franchises. Every bat is signed by the complete squad of that franchise.

Every player who takes part in building the first chapter leaves their signature on it.

Some of those players are already established names.

Many are still emerging.

Some may go on to represent Punjab at the highest level.

Some may become future IPL stars.

And years from now, when those careers have developed, these signatures will remain together on one object.

Not as a prediction of who will become a star.

As a record of where they began.

That is why the Hall of Fame is not simply a signed bat collection.

It is a physical record of the league's beginning.

Sher E Punjab T20 League 2026 at a Glance

The Beginning of a New Era for Punjab Cricket

The Sher E Punjab T20 League has existed before in different forms.

What changes in 2026 is the structure.

The Punjab Cricket Association's competition enters its first franchise based season with six city identities, squads assembled through an auction and a format designed to bring established Punjab cricketers together with emerging players from across the state.

The six franchises are:

• Bathinda Royals
• Amritsar Soormas
• Fazilka Falcons
• Jalandhar Warriors
• Ludhiana Lions
• Mohali Kings

The league phase consists of 24 matches, followed by two semi finals and the final.

All 27 matches will be played at the I.S. Bindra Stadium in Mohali.

That makes the inaugural season unusually concentrated.

One venue.

Six franchises.

Twenty seven matches.

Fourteen days.

And an entirely new chapter of franchise cricket in Punjab.

Why the First Season Matters

The importance of an inaugural season is not simply that it happens first.

It is that it can never happen again.

Future seasons will have returning teams, established rivalries, existing records and familiar names.

Season One has none of that.

Every franchise is new.

Every team identity is new.

Every captain is leading the franchise for the first time.

Every record created becomes a first.

The first century.

The first five wicket haul.

The first match winning performance.

The first final.

The first champion.

The first trophy lift.

And, eventually, the players themselves will change.

Squads will be rebuilt. Players will move. Captains will change. New stars will emerge.

That makes the 2026 squads a snapshot of Punjab cricket at one very specific moment.

The Hall of Fame exists to preserve that snapshot.

The LEGXI Hall of Fame

Six Franchises. Every Player. One Inaugural Legacy.

The Hall of Fame is the flagship collectible of the LEGXI × Sher E Punjab T20 League partnership.

There are five editions of the Hall of Fame.

Each edition contains six full size bats.

One bat for each inaugural franchise.

And every bat is signed by the complete squad of that franchise.

That distinction is important.

This is not a captain collectible.

It is not an individual player collectible.

It is not a bat carrying a selection of famous signatures.

It is the squad.

Every player who forms part of the inaugural season has their signature on the hall of fame, so you own the complete history archival of inaugural season and many of these are going to be big future stars.

Hall of Fame is the real GOAT Collectible from the season

Six bats.

Six inaugural franchises.

Five complete editions.

And across every bat, the signatures of the players who built Season One.

Bathinda Royals

The Bathinda bat carries the signatures of the inaugural Royals squad.

These are the players who will establish what Bathinda Royals means in the league for the very first time.

Years later, the value of that object will not depend only on who was famous in August 2026.

It will also depend on who these players became.

Amritsar Soormas

The Amritsar bat records the squad that opened the league's competitive history.

Abhishek Sharma leads the Soormas, but the Hall of Fame does not reduce the franchise to its captain.

Every member of the inaugural squad belongs to the story.

Fazilka Falcons

The Fazilka bat carries the complete squad that took the field under Shubman Gill.

Gill brings enormous existing recognition.

But the deeper story of the Hall of Fame is the players standing beside him.

Some are already known.

Others are still waiting for their moment.

This bat captures them before the future has been written.

Jalandhar Warriors

The Jalandhar bat represents the first Warriors squad, led by Prabhsimran Singh.

Every signature turns the bat into a roster of the franchise's beginning.

Ludhiana Lions

The Ludhiana bat carries the signatures of the inaugural Lions squad, led by Arshdeep Singh.

Arshdeep already has an established place in Indian cricket.

For many of his teammates, the 2026 Sher E Punjab season may be one of the early chapters of careers still being written.

That contrast is precisely what makes the complete squad signature important.

Mohali Kings

The Mohali bat represents the squad playing the inaugural season at the home of Punjab cricket.

Ramandeep Singh leads the Kings, but again, the object belongs to the entire franchise.

Every player contributes to the identity of the first Mohali Kings squad.

Why Every Signature Matters

The strongest part of the Hall of Fame is not the number of bats.

It is the number of stories contained within them.

A captain's signature tells you who led the team.

A complete squad tells you who built it.

That difference becomes more important with time.

Imagine looking at one of these bats five, ten or fifteen years from now.

Some signatures may belong to players who went on to become India internationals.

Some may belong to IPL regulars.

Some may belong to domestic stars.

Some may belong to players whose greatest achievement came later.

And some may remain relatively unknown.

The Hall of Fame does not attempt to decide which signature will matter most.

It preserves all of them.

Because an inaugural squad is valuable precisely because nobody yet knows what the future holds.

The object captures the players before the future separates their careers.

That is legacy.

The Hall of Fame Is Not About Scarcity Alone

Five editions is a finite number.

But scarcity is not the primary story.

The real significance comes from what cannot be reproduced.

You can manufacture another bat.

You can create another signed product.

You can produce another team edition.

But you cannot recreate the inaugural squad of a franchise after its first season has ended.

The players may return.

The franchise may return.

The league may return.

The exact beginning will not.

The Hall of Fame therefore derives its significance from circumstance first and scarcity second.

The five editions simply determine how many collectors can own that piece of the inaugural record.

The history itself can only happen once.

Six Captains. Another Chapter of the Collection.

Alongside the Hall of Fame sits a separate captain focused collectible.

The six inaugural captains are:

• Shubman Gill, Fazilka Falcons
• Arshdeep Singh, Ludhiana Lions
• Abhishek Sharma, Amritsar Soormas
• Prabhsimran Singh, Jalandhar Warriors
• Ramandeep Singh, Mohali Kings
• Gurnoor Brar, Bathinda Royals

LEGXI has created a captain signed miniature bat collection built around these six players.

There are 27 editions.

The number is deliberate.

The Sher E Punjab T20 League consists of 27 matches.

Each edition represents the tournament's complete match count through the signatures of its six inaugural captains.

Every edition contains two miniature bats, framed together as one collectible.

One set.

Six captain signatures.

Twenty seven editions.

It is 27 framed editions, each containing the six captain signed miniature bats.

That distinction matters.

And 27 is not an arbitrary edition number.

It belongs to the tournament itself.

Captain's Shield

The Captain's Shield follows the same core idea.

The six inaugural captains sign the cricket balls that form each edition.

There are 27 editions, corresponding directly to the 27 matches of the inaugural tournament.

Each edition brings together the signatures of all six captains.

The result is another physical representation of the league's structure.

Twenty seven matches.

Six captains.

One inaugural season.

The Captain's Shield is therefore not simply a signed cricket ball display.

It is a captain's record of Season One.

The Signed Helmets

The helmet collection tells a different story.

There are 10 editions per franchise.

Each helmet carries signatures from almost the entire squad of that franchise.

That means the collection extends beyond the six captains and captures the depth of the inaugural squads.

The Hall of Fame represents the complete franchise legacy in its most definitive form.

The Captain's Shield and captain signed miniature bats represent leadership.

The helmets represent the players who shared the dressing room and built the team around that leadership.

Together, the products create different views of the same season.

The franchise.

The squad.

The captain.

The match.

The moment.

The Two Coins That Bookend Season One

Before the opening match, a coin will be tossed.

On 30 August, one captain will call.

One decision will be made.

And the franchise era of the Sher E Punjab T20 League will begin.

That inaugural toss coin becomes part of LEGXI's programme.

On 13 September, another coin will be tossed before the final.

Different captains.

Different stakes.

The final match of the first season.

That coin becomes part of the collection too.

Two coins.

One beginning.

One ending.

Between them sit 27 matches.

The coins are significant because they are not replicas of historical moments.

They are the objects used at the moments themselves.

The First Match

The opening fixture is Amritsar Soormas versus Mohali Kings.

It will be the first competitive match of the franchise era.

LEGXI's programme preserves two opening match balls, one from each innings, signed by the relevant captain.

These objects carry a relationship to a specific fixture.

They are not simply signed cricket balls.

They belong to the first match.

That distinction is the foundation of event linked collecting.

The Final

The final introduces the other end of the story.

Two final match balls.

One final toss coin.

One champion.

One trophy lift.

By then, the league will have created its first records and established its first identity.

But the physical programme will still trace back to the beginning.

The first toss.

The first match.

The six inaugural squads.

The six captains.

The final.

The final toss.

The entire season becomes a connected collecting story.

What Makes the LEGXI Programme Different

Most sports merchandise begins with the product.

LEGXI begins with the moment.

A standard team product can be manufactured before a season begins.

A generic signed product can be created after a season ends.

But a match linked collectible has to be connected to the event itself.

That is why timing and provenance matter.

The Hall of Fame is signed by the players who actually form the inaugural squads.

The captain collectibles are signed by the six players who actually lead the inaugural franchises.

The helmets carry the signatures of the players who make up those squads.

The opening match balls are connected to the opening fixture.

The final match balls are connected to the final.

The toss coins are used at the beginning and end of the competition.

Each object derives its meaning from its relationship to the season.

That is what turns memorabilia into an archive.

Provenance Is Part of the Collectible

For LEGXI, authentication is fundamental.

A signature is meaningful when there is confidence in who signed it.

An event linked object becomes more meaningful when its connection to the event can be documented.

That is why signing sessions and collectible handling are treated as part of the programme rather than as an afterthought.

The physical object is one part of the collectible.

The documentation surrounding it is another.

The principle is simple.

The object tells you what it is.
The provenance tells you why it matters.

Six Captains. Six Franchises. One First Season.

There is another reason the inaugural season deserves to be preserved.

The six captains themselves represent six different paths through Punjab cricket.

Shubman Gill leads Fazilka.

Arshdeep Singh leads Ludhiana.

Abhishek Sharma leads Amritsar.

Prabhsimran Singh leads Jalandhar.

Ramandeep Singh leads Mohali.

Gurnoor Brar leads Bathinda.

Some are already established on the international stage.

Others are at earlier points in their careers.

That makes the season interesting beyond the names that are already famous.

The Hall of Fame captures that entire spectrum.

It does not only preserve the stars.

It preserves the squad around them.

Because the future of Punjab cricket may not belong only to the names everyone knows today.

It may belong to a player whose signature is currently one among many on an inaugural bat.

Why the Future Matters

This is where the Hall of Fame becomes more than memorabilia.

Consider what happens to a player's career after Season One.

A player may become an IPL regular.

Another may earn an India call up.

Another may become a domestic leader.

Another may become a captain.

Another may disappear from the spotlight.

Today, all of them stand at the same point in the story.

They are part of the inaugural squad.

That moment of equality exists only once.

The Hall of Fame freezes it.

Not the career that came later.

Not the reputation that developed afterwards.

The beginning.

That is why every signature matters.

The LEGXI Collecting Map

One Season. Many Ways to Remember It.

A collector can approach the inaugural season in different ways.

• By franchise.
• By captain.
• By match.
• By object.
• Or by building the complete story.

The Hall of Fame captures the six inaugural franchises through their complete squads.

The Captain's Collection captures the six inaugural leaders.

The Captain's Shield connects those leaders to the 27 match structure of the tournament.

The helmets capture the squads.

The match balls capture specific fixtures.

The toss coins capture the boundaries of the season itself.

Together, they create something larger than a catalogue.

They create a physical timeline.

The First Chapter Can Only Happen Once

Years from now, the scorecards will tell us who won.

The records will tell us who scored the first century.

The archives will tell us who took the first five wicket haul.

The photographs will show the first champion lifting the trophy.

But some parts of the season will survive differently.

As objects.

• Five Hall of Fame editions carrying the complete signatures of the six inaugural squads.
• A miniature bat collection carrying the signatures of all six inaugural captains.
• A Captain's Shield connecting those captains to the 27 match structure.
• Helmets signed by the players who formed the inaugural teams.
• A coin that went into the air before anyone knew what the league would become.
• A ball used in the opening match.
• A ball used in the final.
• A jersey signed by a captain in the only season in which he could be the first.

These objects will not tell the entire story.

Nothing can.

But they will preserve pieces of it.

That is the role LEGXI has taken in Season One.

Not to recreate history after it has happened.

To preserve selected pieces of it while it is being made.

Because there will be other seasons.

Other squads.

Other captains.

Other champions.

Other stars.

But there will never be another inaugural Sher E Punjab T20 League season.

There will never be another first squad.

Another first captain.

Another first toss.

Another first match.

Another first champion.

The first chapter can only happen once.
LEGXI is preserving it.