‘Not mercenaries’: Fifteen Australians targeted by UAE Twenty20 league - Sydney Morning Herald


8/4/2022 12:00:00 AM3 years 7 months ago
by Daniel Brettig, Malcolm Conn

The scale of the attempted raid on Australian players goes far beyond the threat of losing one player – David Warner – to the UAE because he does not have a BBL deal.

As many as 15 Australian players have been offered contracts worth up to $700,000 a year to abandon the Big Bash League and play in the UAE Twenty20 tournament in January. The scale of the attempted… [+2405 chars]

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