Cricket South Africa has signed over 25 cricketers for their upcoming SA T20 league. Sri Lanka and the West Indies are expect to field ten players each in the inaugural T20 league.
More than 25 cricketers have signed up for Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) upcoming T20 league. Which will be held next January. Sri Lanka and the West Indies are expect to field ten players each in the inaugural T20 league. Not only are players from Sri Lanka and the West Indies expect to join. But nearly a dozen English players are also expected to join.
In other news, Cricket Australia (CA) has begun awarding Big Bash League contracts to their star white-ball players, including David Warner, Steven Smith, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, and Cameron Green. As a result, the aforementioned players may be unable to participate in the South Africa league. Unless they decide to retire from international competition and become ‘free agents.’
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CSA SA T20 League participants include Jos Buttler, Eoin Morgan, and Jason Holder, among others.
The tournament will feature prominent English cricketers such as Jos Buttler, Liam Livingstone. Eoin Morgan, Jason Roy, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, and Tymal Mills. Jason Holder, Alzarri Joseph, Obed McCoy, Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana. Bhanuka Rajapaksa, and Harry Tector are among the other players who have decided to compete in the tournament.
According to CSA, the board of directors decided to implement the franchise-based league in order to ensure the “long-term sustainability of the game” in the country. In the future, the top board will not organize any international cricket in South Africa immediately following the New Year in order to create a window for the T20 league.
According to the Times of India, “this new league promises to make a significant investment into both professional cricket and development in South Africa, as well as a positive socioeconomic and tourism injection into the country.”
Meanwhile, South Africa is currently playing England in a three-match Twenty20 International series. The Proteas team defeated in the first T20I, and the teams will meet again on July 28 in the second match (Thursday).