India, Australia and South Africa will play in the first-ever Twenty20 “super series”, which is proposed to be held next year in two of those countries.

As the first non-ICC multilateral tournament involving national teams, this event will mark a paradigm shift for the sport’s newest format but it faces several hurdles such as finding a window in an already crowded calendar, and negotiating the ICC ruling that allows a maximum of seven Twenty20 matches a year.

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