The Southern Hemisphere T20 Tournament is a proposed tri-nations cricket tournament to be set up and run by the cricketing boards of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The tournament was expected to be launced in 2011 and be similar to the IPL

Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...

 with city-based franchise teams. The tri-nation league will have three teams each from Australia and South Africa, and two from New Zealand divided into two conferences; Australasian and African. In July 2009 James Sutherland

James Sutherland (cricketer)

James Alexander Sutherland is a former Australian first-class cricketer and current cricket administrator...

, chief executive of Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia, formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket...

, announced that plans to start in 2011 had been cancelled due to there being no clear window in the Future Tours Program beyond 2012, he said that 'it is now a longer term proposal'.