A flagship T20 tournament will take place in South Africa in November and December this year, but not the way the T20 Global League was supposed to. Instead, a so far unnamed competition of which CSA will be the majority shareholder and satellite television company SuperSport a part-owner will be played, with details on the numbers of teams, matches and allowances for overseas players yet to be ironed out.
The new league will replace the yet-to-be-born T20 Global League, which was due to be played last year, but was postponed three weeks before the scheduled start and caused considerable uncertainty in South African cricket. Chiefly, the T20 Global League accounted for the departure of CSA’s former CEO Haroon Lorgat, who parted ways with the organisation on September 28, 2017, after fallouts with the board over the details of the running of the league, among other things.
The original tournament was Lorgat’s brainchild and was launched in June last year in London, with seven foreign owners for the eight teams including three IPL owners and two from PSL. None of those stakeholders will be involved in the new competition, which is essentially a South African product. Thabang Moroe, CSA’s acting CEO, who will remain in place for the next two months at least, confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that the eight previous franchise owners have been refunded their deposits of US$ 250,000.
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