IPL 2025: The SA20 commissioner and former South Africa’s skipper, Graeme Smith has pledged to make the SA20 the second-best league in the world after the IPL. Smith admitted that IPL is the best league and they can ‘only learn’ to get better. Earlier, former Indian cricketers Dinesh Karthik & Robin Uthappa also said that SA20 is the second-best franchise-based league going around.
“BCCI and IPL have been amazing in supporting us and guiding us in every decision we have made. IPL is the leader in franchise cricket by far and we can only learn from them,” Smith told PTI Bhasha in an exclusive interview here.
More Indian players in SA20?
When questioned about the potential for more Indian players in the future, Smith mentioned that they would love to have them if the opportunity arose, but currently, there are no such plans in place.
“If the Indian players were available, we would love to have them here. But nothing of that sort is in the pipeline. We always have conversations, and probably at the IPL time I will be there in India. We have a very good relationship with them. I was lucky that I played a couple of years in the IPL. We won the first edition with Rajasthan Royals in 2008.“
When asked about his aspirations for the league, Smith said that they want to make it the number one choice in the country’s cricket calendar during South African summers. “It’s incredible to have such a league in my own country. Our window is going to be in the summers in South Africa and we want to be the number one choice in the calendar during this period.
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