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New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming won't be going anywhere near the breakaway Indian Cricket League, says NZ Cricket.
Reports from Australia yesterday suggested Fleming had been approached to join the rebel ICL, which is aiming to start with six teams playing Twenty20 matches at three Indian venues over a month around October.
The Australian newspaper claimed Fleming, who is captaining Nottinghamshire in English county cricket, was being sought as one of the ICL captains, on a salary of about $555,000 a year for three years.
It is likely he will be captaining New Zealand on tour in South Africa from the start of November, which follows the first Twenty20 world championship, also in the republic.
The newspaper said Fleming, 34, was considering his position and contemplating retiring from international cricket to take up the offer.
West Indian great Brian Lara signed on this week for A$500,000 (about $555,000) a year, and the ICL's chairman, former Indian great Kapil Dev, says Australians Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne will join him.
"Stephen has not spoken to New Zealand Cricket about playing in the ICL," NZC chief executive Justin Vaughan said yesterday.
"He recently signed a contract with NZC, and the ICL is not yet considered an International Cricket Council-sanctioned tournament."
Players need NZC approval to play events outside their contracts.
Warne is believed to be in line to get almost A$2 million over three years, but his former Australian teammates, batsmen Justin Langer and Damien Martyn, are understood to have turned down offers.
