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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Having worked hard to attract foreign stars to build its credibility the SA20 and South African cricket is at a point where it\u2019s the local stars who have become headline attractions and could garner huge pay packets at next week\u2019s player auction ahead of the competition\u2019s fourth season.<\/p>\n

Graeme Smith is not bothered that the Ashes, West Indies playing in New Zealand or even the Big Bash Down Under \u2014 all of which will run concurrently with next season\u2019s SA20 \u2014 will impinge the quality of players available for the auction.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may lose (players) through the Ashes, but you gain through England white ball players, or for next season West Indies players like Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, who are both playing for the first time and Nicholas Pooran who has been pre-signed by MI Cape Town,\u201d said the league\u2019s commissioner.<\/p>\n

More important for Smith however, are the local players. \u201cThe big storylines will be the South African marquee players and how teams bid for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aiden Markram and Dewald Brevis are the headline names among the local contingent with both having a base price of R500,000. Smith expects Tristan Stubbs’s record fee of R9.2m \u2014 set in the first auction \u2014 to be surpassed next week with Markram and Brevis, the favourites to possibly breach the R10m mark.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the franchises understand the South African players a lot more than they did in season one. We\u2019ve seen over the three years, some local players really stand out,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n

With both hailing from Northerns, and the Pretoria Capitals, led by a new coaching staff headed up by Sourav Ganguly, with Shaun Pollock as his assistant, having the largest available cap space at R32m, it represents an obvious option for a return home for either player. Markram led the Sunrisers Eastern Cape to the title in the first two seasons, while Brevis was part of the MI Cape Town side that won last season\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n

There are a host of top local players available in the auction \u2014 including Matthew Breetzke, who\u2019s been on a hot streak in the ODI format and has set his base price at R200,000, which is likely to cause high bidding. Kwena Maphaka, Gerald Coetzee, Tristan Luus and Lutho Sipamla are among a host of talented fast bowlers available, as are World Test Championship winners Lungi Ngidi, Kyle Verreynne, David Bedingham, Keshav Maharaj and Wiaan Mulder.<\/p>\n

Despite the international programme, Smith said it was a tribute to how the tournament is viewed internationally that players like Russell, Narine, Jos Buttler and Rashid Khan have already been pre-signed by franchises, and that others, including the great Jimmy Anderson and Bangladeshi star Shakib Al-Hasan, have all submitted their names to the auction.<\/p>\n

The tournament has done away with the Rookie selection this season and instead franchises have to sign two South African under-23 players. \u201cThe reason for that was we didn\u2019t want a turnover of young players, we wanted them to be able to be picked up young and be developed in the system over three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are 84 spots available across the six franchises at next week\u2019s auction with R131m expected to be spent on players.<\/p>\n

All squads are required to include 19 players, with a minimum of nine South African players, a maximum of seven international players, two U23 South African players and a Wildcard player.<\/p>\n

In the absence of Test cricket next summer, the fourth season of SA20, which will start on December 26, will occupy prime time on the calendar, with matches also scheduled for New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

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