The level of dissatisfaction among T20 Global League franchise owners with Cricket SA has reached tipping point. "We are absolutely disgruntled at the way Cricket SA had handled [or mishandled] its affairs with regard to the T20 Global League‚" the owner of the Bloem City Blazes‚ Sushil Kumar‚ said on Wednesday. That brings the number of owners who have slammed Cricket SA’s handling of the inaugural edition of the T20 Global League to four of the total of eight. The tournament was to have been played last November but was postponed by a year because it would lead to losses of R180m‚ largely because of Cricket SA’s failure to secure a broadcaster and sponsorship. Cricket SA has since announced that it has refunded the owners their deposits‚ and Cricket SA and SuperSport now own the tournament. 'False information' Kumar wrote that Cricket SA’s board had been "fed false information with regards to the owners’ intentions" last February — eight months before the decision to pull the plug...
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