Twenty20 game for Aussies on cards
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The spectacular birth of Twenty20 cricket has Australia planning an inaugural international clash on home shores featuring its world champion side next summer.
The spectacular birth of Twenty20 cricket has Australia planning an inaugural international clash on home shores featuring its world champion side next summer.
The ratings bonanza of the first televised match shown in Australia last summer – when Australia A took on Pakistan in Adelaide – and the rollicking crowd support the debut international between Australia and New Zealand generated in Auckland in February has spiked CA's interest.
New Zealand Cricket adopted a retro theme for the clash which saw both sides appear in their early 1980s body-hugging outfits, while several players added to the fun by growing moustaches.
In a congested schedule, Australia will face the Rest of the World in a one-off Test and three one-dayers in October before hosting Tests against the West Indies and South Africa.
Sri Lanka and South Africa will then join the Australians in the triangular one-day series.
If the Twenty20 match is given the go-ahead, it's likely to be held as a lead-in to either the Test series against the West Indies or South Africa.
Several states remain in the frame to host the match but Melbourne has been ruled out.
CA has already scheduled a domestic Twenty20 series between the states next summer.
In other developments, CA has vowed to find the best replacement – regardless of state allegiances – for national selector Allan Border who quit last week.
West Australian Tom Hogan and Victorian Ray Bright remain the favourites.
The board approved an extended two-year term for national selector David Boon. Chairman Trevor Hohns and fellow selector Andrew Hilditch were given new contracts last summer.
CA also endorsed the new memorandum of understanding with the players' union which guarantees state and international players 25 per cent of revenues.
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