Aussie players targeted in shock $5m move

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Indian Premier League teams person reportedly held informal talks with the managers of Australian players to gauge their involvement successful year-round contracts that would spot them walk distant from their Cricket Australia deals.

In what's been labelled a seismic displacement successful the game, Australian players could beryllium paid up to $5 cardinal to perpetrate to their IPL franchise for 12 months a year.

As good arsenic the Indian Premier League itself, the franchises person a involvement successful teams successful different home leagues astir the world, specified arsenic the Caribbean Premier League.

The Age reports that determination is presently small involvement from the Australian players, though that is apt to alteration arsenic they get person to the extremity of their planetary careers.

Players would inactive necessitate No Objection Certificates (NOC) from CA to play successful overseas T20 competitions.

Former Australian skipper Ian Chappell told Wide World of Sports earlier this twelvemonth that CA faces a existent occupation dealing with the rapidly evolving T20 landscape.

"I deliberation a batch of the older players volition get offers from that area, and that volition beryllium a existent situation for nations similar Australia who person a batch of bully players, and besides for nations that can't spend to wage their players the champion rates," Chappell said.

The wealth connected connection successful overseas T20 leagues has been a processing contented successful Australian cricket for immoderate time. In August, Chris Lynn signed an unprecedented deal with the Adelaide Strikers BBL team, that volition besides let him to play successful a rival T20 contention successful the UAE.

Lynn, the starring run-scorer successful Big Bash League history, volition play 11 of Adelaide's 14 games earlier departing for the caller UAE ILT20 competition.

The brag of IPL giants Kolkota Knight Riders precocious said that successful an "ideal world" players would beryllium contracted to their franchises for 12 months a year, perchance starring cricket down the 'club vs country' way that rules football.

Any determination by IPL sides to motion up a radical of planetary stars could besides pb cricket down the way that has divided play successful the past year, with Greg Norman's LIV Golf present offering a contention for players to gain much for playing less, arsenic an alternate to the PGA Tour.

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