"It’s very exciting to be here in Stellenbosch‚" Preity Zinta said in Paarl on Wednesday. Her challenges with the local geography aside‚ the movie star cum T20 franchise mogul had done her homework. "I had to write down ‘Stellenbosch’ five times so I didn’t misspell it‚" she said. "During the last IPL [Indian Premier League], I learnt to say ‘baie dankie’." At which point a reporter from an Afrikaans-language newspaper, who was also at a media conference announcing that the team formerly known as the Stellenbosch Monarchs will be the Stellenbosch Kings in the inaugural edition of the T20 Global League (T20GL) in November and December — shut his notebook. "I’ve got my story‚" he said. How had the Bollywood actor‚ who already owns Punjab Kings XI‚ come to be the knight in shining armour who rode to the rescue of the Stellenbosch franchise when the originally announced owner‚ Brimstone Investments‚ pulled out? Zinta said she bumped into Cricket SA CEO Haroon Lorgat in a hotel in Dubai ...
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