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Australia to hold IPL-style tournament
Agencies
SYDNEY: India have agreed to clear their biggest superstars to play in Australia's domestic Twenty20 competition as Cricket Australia considers an IPL-like franchise system for the tournament. The revamped event would likely start in 2009-10 as Cricket Australia aims to make the most of Twenty20's growing popularity.
Australia's six-state Twenty20 competition is going ahead this season but from the following year the tournament could look completely different as Australia investigate options for how to structure the series. The state teams could remain but another possibility is to adapt the hugely successful IPL model, in which teams were owned privately and signed international players.
"The franchise model is one that is being looked at very, very closely," Cricket Australia's public affairs manager Peter Young told Cricinfo. "We are narrowing the options, but the way it will look is still to be determined."
Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman and BCCI vice-president, said India would have no problem allowing its players to take part. "They [Cricket Australia] have asked us already if we would release our players for that and we said yes," Modi said in the Herald Sun. "They have been gracious enough to release their players for us."
Agencies
SYDNEY: India have agreed to clear their biggest superstars to play in Australia's domestic Twenty20 competition as Cricket Australia considers an IPL-like franchise system for the tournament. The revamped event would likely start in 2009-10 as Cricket Australia aims to make the most of Twenty20's growing popularity.
Australia's six-state Twenty20 competition is going ahead this season but from the following year the tournament could look completely different as Australia investigate options for how to structure the series. The state teams could remain but another possibility is to adapt the hugely successful IPL model, in which teams were owned privately and signed international players.
"The franchise model is one that is being looked at very, very closely," Cricket Australia's public affairs manager Peter Young told Cricinfo. "We are narrowing the options, but the way it will look is still to be determined."
Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman and BCCI vice-president, said India would have no problem allowing its players to take part. "They [Cricket Australia] have asked us already if we would release our players for that and we said yes," Modi said in the Herald Sun. "They have been gracious enough to release their players for us."