ICC World Twenty20 WorldCup South Africa 2007

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Twenty 20 world cup 2007



Twenty Twenty world cup venue: This 20 twenty world cup venue is South Africa has the right to host of this Twenty Twenty world cup 2007.The 20 twenty World Cup will have 12 nations contesting and 27 matches over 12 days.

Date and Days: This 20 twenty world cup have 13 days from September 11 to September 24th 2007.

Teams:

Group A - South Africa, West Indies and Bangladesh
Group B - England, Australia and Zimbabwe
Group C - New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Kenya
Group D - Pakistan, India and Scotland

Venues:
Johannesburg - Wanderers
Durban - Kingsmead
Cape Town - Newlands

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Twenty20 world cup match 2007 South Africa Schedule

Tuesday, September 11th 2007
South Africa v West Indies 1800 - Johannesburg

Wednesday, September 12th 2007
New Zealand v Kenya 1000 - Durban
Pakistan v Scotland 1400 - Durban
Australia v Zimbabwe 1800 - Cape Town

Thursday, September 13th 2007
West Indies v Bangladesh 1000 - Johannesburg
Zimbabwe v England 1400- Cape Town
India v Scotland 1800 - Durban

Friday, September 14th 2007
Sri Lanka v Kenya 1000 - Johannesburg
Australia v England 1400 - Cape Town
India v Pakistan 1800 - Durban

Saturday, September 15th 2007
Sri Lanka v New Zealand 1400 - Johannesburg
South Africa v Bangladesh 1800- Cape Town

Sunday, September 16th 2007
Winner Group C v Runner Up Group D 1000- Johannesburg
Winner Group B v Runner Up Group A 1400- Cape Town
Winner Group A v Runner Up Group B 1800- Cape Town

Monday, September 17th 2007
Winner Group D v Runner Up Group C 1800- Johannesburg

Tuesday, September 18th 2007
Winner Group C v Runner Up Group B
1000 - Durban
Winner Group B v Winner Group D 1400- Johannesburg
Runner Up Group A v Runner Up Group C 1800 -Johannesburg

Wednesday, September 19th 2007
Winner Group A v Winner Group C 1400 -Durban
Runner Up Group B v Runner Up Group D 1800 -Durban

Thursday, September 20th 2007
Winner Group B v Runner Up Group C
- 1000 Cape Town
Runner Up Group A v Winner Group D 1400 - Cape Town
Winner Group A v Runner Up Group D 1800- Durban

Saturday, September 22nd 2007
E2 v F1 1400 - Cape Town
E1 v F2 1800 - Durban

Monday, September 24th 2007
Final TBA Johannesburg

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Graeme Smith to kick off ICC World Twenty20 media activities

August 16, 2007

South Africa captain Graeme Smith will kick off a series of official media activities in a build-up to the ICC World Twenty20 when he holds a media conference in Johannesburg on 3 September.

The Proteas' captain will be available at 0930 at the Sandton Sun. Then on 5 September at the same venue, the Proteas will attend an open media session from 1100 to 1200 in which five players will be available for the media.

From 3 to 7 September, 10 out of the 12 teams in the tournament are expected to make their captains available for arrival media conferences and each team has also committed to putting forward its players for open media sessions. All these activities will take place in Johannesburg.

India and England, which arrive on 10 September, will hold their arrival press conferences on 10 September at 1300 and 1330 respectively, at The Towers Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg.

India's open media session is scheduled for the Elangeni Hotel, Durban from 1800 to 1900 on 11 September while England will have its open media session at the Newlands Sun Hotel, Cape Town on the same day from 1430 to 1515.

The exact schedule of arrival press conferences and open media sessions will be announced in due course.

The inaugural ICC World Twenty20, which runs from 11 to 24 September, will open in Johannesburg with a game between host South Africa and the West Indies and concludes with the final at the same ground two weeks later. Three venues are being used, with Durban and Cape Town also staging matches.

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By Kool GuyAll 12 squads confirmed ahead of inaugural ICC World Twenty20
The best cricketers in the world are gearing up for the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 with all 12 squads now having been confirmed.

The South African cities of Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town will be the venues for this intensive two-week event and a host of top players from all over the globe are chomping at the bit to get stuck in.

The likes of Adam Gilchrist, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Jacob Oram, Shahid Afridi, Muttiah Muralidaran, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Tamim Iqbal, Kevin Pietersen and Tatenda Taibu will all be there from each of the ten Full Members while players of the calibre of Steve Tikolo and Ryan Watson will be among those representing the world of Associate cricket.

As well as the top ten teams, which qualified automatically, Kenya and Scotland got to this stage having made it to the final of the ICC World Cricket League Division 1, held in Nairobi in February.

The ICC World Twenty20 will take place from 11 to 24 September and will involve 12 teams, 27 matches, three venues and countless thrills.

Tournament director Steve Elworthy welcomed the squad announcements.

"Looking down through the squad lists it is very exciting to see the quality of talent that will be on show during the event," he said.

"Every single team has potential match-winners within its ranks and I have no doubt that we are going to see some amazing performances during the two weeks of the tournament.

"Players love performing in front of big crowds and so it is very encouraging for us to see how fast the tickets are selling. The Twenty20 format has been very successful on a domestic level in South Africa in recent seasons so it is no real surprise that people will want to go to watch the world's top players in action.

"The countdown to the ICC World Twenty20 is very much on now and I get the sense that there is a real momentum building now and it has already caught the public's imagination here in South Africa," he said.

Some tickets are still available by clicking on http://www.icc-cricket.com/ and following the link. For more information about the ICC World Twenty20 go to: http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/events/twenty20/ .

The full squad lists for all 12 participating teams are:

Australia: Ricky Ponting (captain), Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Michael Clarke, Adam Gilchrist, Brad Haddin, Matthew Hayden, Brad Hodge, Bradley Hogg, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Andrew Symonds, Shaun Tait, Shane Watson.

Bangladesh: Mohammad Ashraful (captain), Aftab Ahmed, Nadif Chowdhury, Shakib Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Alok Kopali, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mushfiqur Rahim, Ziaur Rahman, Syed Rasel, Abdur Razzak, Farhad Reza, Zunaed Siddique, Nazim Uddin, Mahmud Ullah.

England: Paul Collingwood (captain), Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Andrew Flintoff, James Kirtley, Darren Maddy, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Chris Schofield, Owais Shah, Ryan Sidebottom, Jeremy Snape, Vikram Solanki, Chris Tremlett, Luke Wright.

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Ajit Agarkar, Piyush Chawla, Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Virender Sehwag, Joginder Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Rohit Sharma, RP Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Robin Uthappa.

Kenya: Steve Tikolo (captain), Rajesh Bhudiya, Jimmy Kamande, Tanmay Mishra, Lameck Ngoche, Nehemiah Ngoche, Alex Obanda, Collins Obuya, David Obuya, Thomas Odoyo, Peter Ongondo, Elijah Otieno, Morris Ouma, Ondik Suji, Hiren Varaiya.

New Zealand: Daniel Vettori (captain), Shane Bond, Peter Fulton, Mark Gillespie, Gareth Hopkins, Chris Martin, Craig McMillan, Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Jacob Oram, Jeetan Patel, Bradley Scott, Scott Styris, Ross Taylor, Lou Vincent.

Pakistan: Shoaib Malik (captain), Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Akhtar, Kamran Akmal, Fawad Alam, Yasir Arafat, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt, Umar Gul, Mohammad Hafeez, Misbah-ul-Haq, Rao Iftikhar, Younis Khan, Imran Nazir, Abdul Rehman.

Scotland: Ryan Watson (captain), Fraser Watts, Dougie Brown, John Blain, Gavin Hamilton, Navdeep Poonia, Gregor Maiden, Neil McCallum, Qasim Sheikh, Colin Smith, Craig Wright, Dewald Nel, Gordon Drummond, Ross Lyons, Majid Haq.

South Africa: Graeme Smith (captain), Gulam Bodi, Loots Bosman, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Justin Kemp, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Vernon Philander, Shaun Pollock, Thandi Tshabalala, Johan van der Wath.

Sri Lanka: Mahela Jayawardena (captain), Dilhara Fernando, Hasantha Fernando, Kaushal Lokuarachchi, Sanath Jayasuriya, Farveez Maharoof, Lasith Malinga, Jehan Mubarak, Muttiah Muralidaran, Kumara Sangakkara, Chamara Silva, Upul Tharanga, Dilshan Tilakarathne, Chaminda Vaas, Gayan Wijekoon.

West Indies: Ramnaresh Sarwan (captain), Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Pedro Collins, Narsingh Deonarine, Fidel Edwards, Chris Gayle, Runako Morton, Daren Powell, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Darren Sammy, Marlon Samuels, Devon Smith, Dwayne Smith.

Zimbabwe: Prosper Utseya (captain), Gary Brent, Chamunorwa Chibhabha, Elton Chigumbura, Keith Dabengwa, Tymsen Maruma, Hamilton Masakadza, Stuart Matsikinyeri, Johnson Marumisa, Christopher Mpofu, Tawanda Mupariwa, Vusimusi Sibanda, Tatenda Taibu, Brendon Taylor, Shaun Williams.

James Fitzgerald is ICC Communications Officer

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Unfazed Malik looks ahead to 20/20 World Cup

For Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik, the focus is on the forthcoming Twenty20 World Cup and not the defection of a few of his colleagues to the Indian Cricket League. “It’s a little difficult. But the decision of (Mohd) Yousuf bhai or (Abdul) Razzaq bhai is between them and the Pakistan Cricket Board. I don’t want to discuss this as we are concentrating on the Twenty20 World Cup,” Malik told TOI during a tele-conference interview organised by the ICC.

Instead, Malik is “excited” about the prospect of taking on India during the Twenty20 World Cup. India, Pakistan and Scotland are in the same group. Malik is of the view that the absence of India’s senior pros Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar will not give his side any advantage.

“India still have a balanced side. It’s just that they are looking to give youngsters a chance. An India-Pakistan match is always competitive and playing in Durban, which has a huge Indian and Pakistani population, will add to the fire,” said Malik. With new coach Geoff Lawson joining the team in Lahore on Tuesday, Malik took time off from his meetings with the new staff. Malik claimed he was “very satisfied” with the team’s preparation for the T20 World Cup and excited about the tournament.

“In Twenty20, you need one good spell of or an excellent innings to win the game. More importantly, if we do well in South Africa it will add to our confidence as we have two huge series (SA & India) coming up. I want to win those too,” opined Malik.

The young allrounder admitted that his team hasn’t played much of Twenty20 cricket but is confident of putting a good show. “We have had three camps and worked hard on our fitness. We have also had 20-over games so it has been good. I am confident Afridi, Imran Nazir and Shoaib Akhtar will be the stars for us,” he added.

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Are players joining the Indian Twenty20 league ’selling out’?

New Zealand players may have been approached but have yet to sign to play in the month-long Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition in October.

Various reports suggested on Wednesday that Canterbury veteran Chris Harris would join players such as South Africa’s Lance Klusener, West Indian Brian Lara and Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Yousuf in the breakaway competition.

The official cricket boards in countries such as India and Pakistan have said that players signing up for the new unofficial league will be inelligible to play for their country for the rest of their careers.

Are players joining the new Indian Twenty20 league ’selling out’? Will the new Twenty20 league revive cricket?

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Razzaq quits cricket after being left out of Twenty20 team

Allrounder Abdul Razzaq quit international cricket yesterday after selectors left him out of Pakistan’s squad for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.”I believe that they [selectors] wanted to drop me from Test and one-day international cricket as well, so as a protest I am quitting international cricket,” Razzaq, 27, told broadcaster GEO TV from London.

Pakistan selectors omitted Razzaq and seasoned middle-order batsman Mohammad Yousuf from its 15-man Twenty20 squad.

“There can be a reconciliation, but the [Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)] has to listen to the grievances of the players,” Razzaq said. “Why is the board acting like this with players, trying to get rid of all the seniors?”

PCB chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed dismissed Razzaq’s claims saying: “The team for the Twenty20 World Championship was picked purely on merit.”

“I still believe that Razzaq has a future in Pakistan cricket and he should reconsider his decision,” Ahmed added.

Razzaq is one of three players, along with Yousuf and Younis Khan, who have yet to sign central contracts with the PCB — offered to 20 cricketers. He is also linked with the breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL), but stressed that his retirement from international cricket had nothing to do with the unofficial Twenty20 league.

“The ICL has nothing to do with my retirement decision, I have taken this decision because I was dropped from Twenty20 World Championship,” Razzaq said. “I have an offer from [ICL] but I have not confirmed it yet. I will decide only in the next few days.”

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Yusuf Pathan debut with the Twenty20


Not only Indian cricket team but also cricket players are most discussed name. And when a new player joins into Indian cricket team then he is the most discussed subject for net searching. Yusuf Pathan was not different. Every body knows who is Yusuf Pathan. He is elder brother of Irfan Pathan, who has selected in Indian cricket team for the inaugural Twenty20 squad.

I think I don’t need to introduce anymore about this players. This 24 year player is the elder brother of Irfan Pathan, who also luckily return back again in Indian cricket team. He has got chance for his hard hitting batting. Now, he is waiting to debut in international match with the Twenty20 world cup. He is a right-hand bat and right-arm offbreak bowlers. But he is the most familiar as an aggressive batsman.

Yusuf Pathan joins Indian team with his younger brother Irfan Pathan who left-out for his bad performance. May be these two brothers are going to play together in Twenty20 match in South Africa. Indian people are also eagerly waiting to see these two brothers playing together for Indian cricket team. And some fans of these brothers raise a question that is who is best between these two brothers.

Dear readers you will get your answer when Twenty20 will start. So, wait for Twenty20 world championship until it’s starting.
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Bhajji hopes Twenty20 World Cup will revive his career

Harbhajan Singh is prepared to trade economy for wickets when he makes his India comeback in the inaugural Twenty-20 World Championships in South Africa next month.

“I wouldn’t worry too much about economy in Twenty20 World Cup, you would go for runs anyway. If I pick up a few wickets along the way, I would be satisfied,” says the Punjab off-spinner, one of the meanest bowlers in world cricket. Harbhajan is aware that the last thing a bowler could do when playing in the latest form of the game is worry about conceding runs.

“Twenty20 is not for bowlers, especially spinners. Just 20 overs and full 10 wickets at their disposal, teams have a license to go after bowlers,” the 27-year-old said.

“With a maximum of four overs to bowl in a match, a bowler ought to have done well if his economy rate is 7-8 runs per over.”

Harbhajan’s economy rate of 4.15 per over is better than all but two of the top 10 bowlers in the ICC rankings - Shaun Pollock (3.71) and Muttiah Muralitharan (3.85). His economy rate of 2.81 in Tests also compares favourably with other three great spinners of our times - Murali (2.40), Shane Warne (2.65) and Anil Kumble (2.66). But that did not stop India’s fifth highest wicket-taker, with a Test tally of 238 scalps, from being left out of the Test and ODI teams for the tour of UK.

In fact, chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar was on record saying that Harbhajan needed to pick more wickets instead of being only containing. So, the Twenty-20, that would have been otherwise a nightmare, is giving hope for the ‘Turbanator’. That he has been among wickets - 31 from five matches - for Surrey in English county cricket would also helps Harbhajan’s confidence.

“Surrey is fighting relegation in county championship and all such teams are keen to gain maximum points. Thus green tops are being prepared. As a spinner the odds are stacked against you but I’m happy to have done well,” he said. Harbhajan would fly straight from England to South Africa next month after he has done his bit for Surrey in the remaining two-three fixtures of the county.

The last few months have been bittersweet for Harbhajan. A few peers and seniors have come out in support but most others, supposedly in his close network, have behaved as if he never existed.

“I was faced with choices in the last few months - either to paint the world black and point fingers at everyone or silently go about picking myself up from the floor and do what I do best. I am happy I went for the second option,” he said.

“In 2000, when I was out of team, my list of friends had really come down. Now it’s been pruned down even further. Ironically, I am grateful to God for this spell. It has made me a better person, reflective and realistic.”

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Rajput named Indian 20/20 manager

India’s junior coach Lalchand Rajput was on Wednesday named manager of the Indian team for the inaugural 20/20 World Championships in South Africa in September.

Rajput, 45, played two tests as an opening batsman in 1985 and served Mumbai with distinction in first-class cricket before being given charge of the Indian under-19 team last year. Rajput replaces Chandu Borde, the manager for the ongoing test and one-day tour of England, as India continue stop-gap arrangements in the absence of a regular coach since Greg Chappell resigned in April.

Former captain-turned-commentator Ravi Shastri managed the team on the tour of Bangladesh in May but declined to continue, citing media commitments. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Wednesday it will advertise for the post of national coach within the next week.

“We want to get a coach as early as possible,” BCCI spokesman Rajiv Shukla told reporters after a meeting of its top officials here.

Wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was on Tuesday appointed captain of a revamped Indian team for the Twenty20 world meet in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban from September 11-24.

Regular captain Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Zaheer Khan opted out of the tournament to rest ahead of a busy season that features matches against Australia and Pakistan. India are drawn with Pakistan and Scotland in group D of the preliminary league of the Twenty20 competition, with the top two advancing to the Super Eights round.

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Bowlers urged to embrace 20-20

TREASURED by Australia’s bowlers for his spiritual support as well as his technical expertise, Troy Cooley’s latest advice to the country’s leather-flingers is simple: Twenty20 can be your friend.

When Cricket Australia’s 25 contracted players gather on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast ahead of next month’s first Twenty20 world championship, the renowned bowling coach will encourage his bowlers not to think of themselves as cannon-fodder, which must be tempting when a game is geared entirely around hard-hitting batsmen, but to embrace it.

“Otherwise it will gobble you up,” Cooley said.

Critics of Twenty20 have said bowlers may as well be replaced with bowling machines, and that it can be particularly damaging to the mental health of young spinners. Former Australian paceman Michael Kasprowicz once joked, having played the game when it was first introduced by the English counties, that bowlers should leave their egos in the dressing room.

Cooley, the former Tasmanian paceman recruited from England to guide Australia’s quicks, promotes a different point of view.

“The attitude has got to be that you can have an impact on this game. Nowadays Twenty20, just like one-day cricket in the past, is an avenue that you will see people making their debuts in,” he said.

“It’s really going to highlight all the little deficiencies and you are going to have to be ready to go in Twenty20 cricket, because otherwise it will gobble you up.

“As a bowler, you know the promotion of the game is all about bash and runs. I see it as another challenge and another way to improve.”

Cricket Australia will send its triumphant World Cup squad, with the exception of retired Glenn McGrath, replaced by the previously injured Brett Lee, to South Africa. Australia, which has won three of the five Twenty20 internationals it has played, wants to add the trophy to its cabinet.

“Nobody wants to be embarrassed. I know you can leave your ego at the door, but that’s pretty hard when you are on centre stage. You have got to have an ego that will accept the game and you’ve got to survive in it,” Cooley said.

“It means you have to be more precise in the way you train because your execution is going to be under the spotlight, so be it. There’s nothing better than practising perfectly.”

While the South African tournament is the immediate focus, Australia is also preparing for a limited-overs tour of India and the Australian Test summer against Sri Lanka and India. Cooley recently accompanied left-arm paceman Mitchell Johnson to the pace foundation in Chennai to work with Test legend Dennis Lillee in order to acclimatise to conditions in India

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Symonds fears for the fun of Twenty20s

Australia’s allrounder Andrew Symonds could well emerge as the key player in next month’s Twenty20 World Championship, but he fears the ever-increasing popularity of the game’s newest format could detract from the fun. Symonds has been a sensation in his 17 Twenty20 matches, cracking a century and four fifties at a strike-rate of more than 200 runs per 100 balls.

“It’s a game of fun for me,” he told AAP. “But it looks like it’s heading down the serious route, unfortunately.”

Australia have made plain their intentions for the inaugural tournament, which for them begins with a match against Zimbabwe at Cape Town on September 12. Unlike several teams, most notably India, they have selected a full-strength squad and intend adding to their hat-trick of titles in the 50-over format. That marks something of a break from their previous attitude to the Twenty20 game.

Australia’s first match, against New Zealand at Auckland in February 2005, featured retro-1970s clothing and facial hair, and Dennis Lillee-tribute headbands. Australia won by 44 runs, but seriousness was far from the players’ thoughts.

“Playing the [Twenty20] games in the past the captain doesn’t mind if you interact with the kids in the crowd and muck around a bit,” Symonds said, “but now I don’t know if that’s going to be the case. I think it may end up heading down that serious road.”

“I think probably in the end pride will take over and it will probably end up being a full blown battle, but we’ll have to wait and see.”

Symonds also told the Sporting Life website that Australia could find it tough to win the tournament. “I’ve always said that the shorter the game the easier it is for the lesser sides to beat you,” Symonds said. “In 20 overs anything can happen.”

However, Symonds maintained that his training schedule won’t change for the shorter format. “I practice my skills the same for all forms,” he said. “As long as I’ve got my basics all up to scratch and they’re all firing I tend to be able to change for the different formats. I try not to complicate things too much.”

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Could make cricket stronger

A REBEL Twenty20 cricket league may make the game stronger rather than pull it apart, Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist said today.

The Indian-based league is set to launch in October and has already recruited retired West Indian great Brian Lara, with several players including Australian legends Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne also linked.

Most world cricket bodies have threatened current players linked to the unofficial competition they will be ineligible for national selection if they sign up.

However, Gilchrist believes the rebel league could be turned into a positive for cricket, ensuring stronger ties between players and their respective world body.

“I don’t see it as a particularly bad news story,” he said today on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, during a week-long team briefing. “Competition in the market place is always healthy.

“And if that helps establish a better bond between players and the respective boards in the other countries it’s great.

“It’s a delicate scenario. It’s making the (world body) ICC and the member countries and administrators realise how valuable this product is and how valuable the players are and they are very aware of that.

“And they are doing all they can to make sure they move with the times and be at the forefront of that market.”

Current New Zealand players such as skipper Stephen Fleming, as well as former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq, have been linked to the rebel league which is being bankrolled by Zee Telefilms, India’s largest listed media company.

Each rebel team will comprise four international players, two Indian stars and eight upcoming cricketers with matches to be played across India in October and November. Gilchrist did not expect any current Australian players to be lured by the competition.

“I can’t comment on the other countries, it may be a very different landscape there, but we are very, very well supported by Cricket Australia,” he said. “There’s no doubt about that.

“Primarily they (rebel league) seem to be targeting retired players so I don’t know of any poaching attempts of current Australian contracted players so I don’t think it (player recruitment) is getting to ugly, i