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India’s biggest cricket stars, including the likes of Sachin Tendulkar could soon be turning out for a proposed Australian domestic T20 Championship which would be designed on the IPL franchise. The BCCI has already given its approval to send its best players for Australia’s newest concept regarding Twenty20 cricket which is likely to come up soon as Cricket Australia is highly-impressed by the IPL success. The franchise model is being seriously considered by Cricket Australia. The brain and soul of the IPL tournament, Lalit Modi — the IPL chairman has already put forward India’s complete cooperation and participation if CA is indeed successful in executing their plans.
This is a reciprocal of Australia agreeing to send in its top players for the first edition of the IPL. The tournament is likely to begin in 2009-2010. Australia cricketing authorities would like to promote their domestic talent but they are very interested in having international stars competing in this proposed tournament. Australia already has a six-state team Twenty20 being played this season. The state teams would be definitely modelled on the structure of the IPL team format, where each team had huge corporate backing. The group developing this novel idea is headed by CEO, James Sutherland.
It is believed that certain members of CA had already mentioned about this when they visited India during the first half of the IPL. Furthermore, Australia has perhaps the strongest and the most competitive domestic cricketing structure in the world and the presence of international players and increased remuneration is only bound to increase the already fierce Aussie fighting spirit. Presently, crowds are being enthralled with spirited six state teams that are fighting it out to be the T20 domestic champions in Australia by winning the KFC Twenty20.
Now, with the news of international players being included, the level of competition among the state team members is bound to increase. Australian domestic circuit already has some big county cricket stars and former White members of the Zimbabwean cricket team. State teams like Victoria and Western Australia have made the biggest impact so far and they already know that winning the KFC T20 Championship would definitely enhance the reputation of the players and their negotiating rates in the future would definitely rise.