Losing players to KOLPAK one of reasons for T20 league: Lorgat

Cricket South Africa Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat today conceded that one of the major considerations before announcing the launch of an ambitious Twenty20 Global Destination League was losing key South African players to the KOLPAK agreement.

Recently speedster Kyle Abbott and batsman Rillee Roussouw migrated to England to play County cricket for a stable financial future.

"Yes I must say that when we conceptualised a franchise based T20 league the KOLPAK was a major consideration.

Obviously, you want to give opportunity to the South African players to grow and also make a career out of cricket.

Earlier, the only way to have a good career was to play for South African national team but this league with 8 teams will have 88 slots for Proteas players," Lorgat told

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