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NEIL MANTHORP: Cricket SA needs to show 20-20 vision to save new league
It was about time something worked in favour of Cricket SA’s new T20 league, which is battling to hang on to the remnants of its credibility just three months short of its scheduled start in November. But the yet-to-be-named league has caught a fortunate break with the postponement of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), which will free up many of the game’s biggest names and, theoretically, draw global attention to whatever Cricket SA has in mind to replace the imploded Global League. The BPL was set to run in direct competition with Cricket SA’s new venture but the Bangladesh Cricket Board has been forced to postpone the sixth edition of their flagship event because it clashes with the country’s general election and police security cannot be guaranteed for the teams. The BPL has now been rescheduled for January — in direct competition with Australia’s Big Bash — leaving the six teams with almost no chance of retaining their big-name players for the tournament. But it does mean the...
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