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The Big Bash League, Australia’s franchise-based T20 cricket league, is exploring the anticipation of hosting a fewer games of the 2026-27 variation successful India.
Two BBL executives — Phil Rigby and Margot Harley — on with a Cricket Australia accumulation enforcement — Richard Ostroff — visited India to measure the feasibility of hosting a fewer games. The representatives visited the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium present past week and met officials of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association.
While these were preliminary meetings, The Hindu understands that the Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) had indicated to the TNCA to “slow-walk” the discussions and “not perpetrate to anything” to the CA executives.
A imaginable hitch successful conducting BBL matches successful India volition beryllium connected its imaginable interaction connected the IPL, particularly arsenic the existent broadcast rights rhythm ends successful 2027 and is up for renewal.
The Hindu understands that discussions betwixt the Australian contingent and the TNCA hierarchy centred connected the logistics of hosting games astatine the location of the Chennai Super Kings, 1 of the astir palmy IPL franchises.
According to sources, the squad was keen to larn astir ticketing, security, and different logistics progressive successful hosting the matches.
Currently, the BCCI does not let immoderate existent Indian antheral players to play successful immoderate of the overseas franchise-based T20 leagues. Only players who person retired from each formats of cricket successful India, including the IPL, tin instrumentality part
This is the archetypal lawsuit of an overseas league expressing its tendency to big games successful India, which has the largest cricket instrumentality basal globally.
Last year, erstwhile Indian cricketer R. Ashwin, who retired from planetary cricket successful 2024 and from the IPL successful 2025, signed with BBL broadside Sydney Thunder. However, Ashwin had to propulsion retired up of the 15th variation of the tourney aft suffering a genu injury.
