South African cricket fans will have to be satisfied with just another franchise competition in lieu of the T20 extravaganza promised for the first half of the 2017 summer. Cricket SA said in a statement on Monday that the regular T20 tournament would replace the inaugural edition of the T20 Global League (T20GL)‚ which was postponed when it emerged that it would cost the board $25m — or more than half its current cash reserves. The T20GL had been billed as Cricket SA’s answer to the Indian Premier League and Australia’s Big Bash‚ high-profile events that star the world game’s top players and attract audiences beyond those who simply want to watch cricket.
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