India, Feb. 11 -- The SA20's ultimate aim is to become the biggest T20 league in the world outside of the Indian Premier League, league commissioner Graeme Smith has said. The South African great said that the league, which completed its third season on Sunday, has ticked a lot of the right boxes which the IPL also had in its nascent stages.

"We know that the IPL is the beast and we want to be the biggest league outside of India," Smith said in an interaction with Indian media. "We got a lot of the early building blocks right like the IPL - good cricket, fans coming to the games and so on."

Considered one of South Africa's most succesfull captains of all time, Smith was among the biggest names when the IPL launched in 2008. He played fo...