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Big cash league: Cricket Australia’s bid to draw world’s best to BBL – Sydney Morning Herald
Locked in a dispute with Seven over the network’s fears of a BBL talent drain, CA is planning to help teams pay overseas stars above and beyond the salary cap.
The limitations in BBL salaries, the top end of which are at about $225,000, and the salary cap, which has only doubled in the past decade despite the ballooning of television rights fees, have made it challenging to draw top-tier internationals in recent years, as has the absence of an exclusive window in the calendar.
With the competition’s international signing window to open on Tuesday, though, sources say CA is ready to dip into its own pocket to spend significantly more on overseas signin…
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