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NEIL MANTHORP: Cricket SA has to rebuild friendships for new T20 league
Some fires have to be extinguished to realise the goals the abandoned Global League had set
SuperSport and Cricket SA are working at a furious pace to build the country’s new T20 league, which is set to run from mid-November to mid-December. The broadcaster will be investing hundreds of millions of rand in the tournament and the country’s players to realise the most important goals the abandoned Global League had set. SuperSport is in partnership with Cricket SA in the new competition and will be sharing the risk on a vast financial investment. And it is prepared to wait, in the red, for as long as necessary to make the new league sustainable and ultimately profitable. That took five years in the case of Australia’s now hugely successful Big Bash. It will take at least as long here. But first some fires have to be extinguished and friendships rebuilt. "Bloemfontein has a lot of potential — it was our first choice of city and we look forward to being based here," said Sushil Kumar a year ago. "Our partnership with the city extends beyond the T20 Global League in terms of de...
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