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New Zealand Cricket defends decision to launch domestic T20 competition

New Zealand Cricket officials have defended their choice to establish a new domestic Twenty20 tournament rather than placing a local side into Australia's established Big Bash League. Organization leadership acknowledged they should have communicated their rationale more effectively when first unveiling the replacement for the Super Smash framework, which sparked backlash from prominent figures regarding transparency and the withholding of a Deloitte evaluation.

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