Cricket

BCCI bags top Australian players

                       BCCI  successfully manages to enroll most of the leading cricketers of Australia including Ricky Ponting and Andrew Symonds  to play highly paid domestic T20 tournament scheduled to commence next year .

                          “The BCCI has  paid more than USD 2 million to recruit an extensive list of Australia’s top cricketers–Ricky Ponting, Andrew Symonds,Adam Gilchrist, Mathew Hayden, Brad Haddin ,Michael Hussey ,Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson,” according to reporters.Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne and Justin Langer are amongst the first to join this league.

                         As per the IPL format India, Australia, NewZealand  and South Africa will stage their domestic T20 tournaments and  top two teams from each country will qualify for the champion league , the final leg of the tournament. ” We have to understand India are still the powerbrokers in cricket. Sixty percent of cricket related revenue comes from India . I think everyone knows that and understand that .It’s about growing the game ,making the game as good as possible around the world,”Ponting said.