Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne to launch Cricket All Star League

Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne to launch Cricket All Star League: Spin Wizard, former Australian cricketer Shane Warne and Indian batting Mastero Sachin Tendulkar are together planning the launch of a new T20 competition for retired international cricketers, suggested reports.

It further added through unconfirmed reports that the spinner and his best opponent on the cricket field have approached 28 former players contracts which are estimated to be somewhere around $US 25,000 per game. This Cricket All Stars T20 League will play 15 Twenty20 matches over a period of 42-month.

According to the reports, the league will play a series of matches that will be held in various countries across the continents over a period of three-and-a-half-year (42 months), while it also suggested that United States of America (USA) would host the first installment of the series in September this year. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are being cited as the leading contenders to host the matches that are to be played in the country.

Australian newspaper The Australian named the players who are believed to be contacted, some among them are: Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and Glenn McGrath, Michael Vaughan, Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis.

It also mentioned that though they had tried to contact the ex-players whose names have emerged, to confirm the news none of them were willing to reply over it, while also stating that some of them were in a spot of bother to sign a contract which had just one page of details while more details would follow later.

The Australian said, “Warne is in Britain but has been actively spruiking (promoting) the idea. He hinted this year that he and Tendulkar had formed a business that would be launching during the year,” 

Brett Lee’s manager Neil Maxwell confirmed that his client had received an offer to be a part of the Cricket All Stars League and would be seeking proir permission from CA to agree. He was quoted by Fox Sports saying, “I can’t see anything wrong with it; it’s a group of retired blokes playing a game of cricket,”