IPL franchises buy all 6 teams in South Africa's new T20 league
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Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise owners have bought all the six teams in the new Cricket South Africa T20 League, which is scheduled for January 2023.
According to ESPNcricinfo, Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Lucknow Super Giants, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajasthan Royals and one of the owners of Delhi Capitals have successfully bid for the franchises.
Chennai Super Kings Sports Limited made the highest bid at an informal auction to buy the Johannesburg franchise. Mumbai Indians, owned by Reliance Industries, have bought the Cape Town franchise, while the Sun TV Group, which owns Sunrisers, have bought the Port Elizabeth franchise.
The RP Sanjeev Goenka group, which paid a record sum of INR 7090 crore to buy the Lucknow IPL franchise late last year, picked up the Durban team, while Rajasthan Royals bought the Paarl team. Pretoria has been taken by Jindal South West Sports, which is headed by Parth Jindal, co-owner of the Delhi Capitals in IPL. They are yet to be officially declared winners by the league organizers.
CSA has appointed the former South Africa captain Graeme Smith as the head of the T20 league.
"I'm extremely honoured to be entrusted with leading this exciting new venture. I'm deeply committed to South African cricket and happy to serve the game as best I can. I'm excited by the opportunity to deliver the new league which I believe will be an extremely competitive product, one that can bring the much-needed investment into the game and provide new opportunities for players around the world and more importantly to our SA home grown talent,”
"The response from stakeholders has been very positive thus far and we've made great progress in the initial stages. We're determined to deliver a valuable, sustainable and appealing tournament for South African cricket," he added.
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