Melbourne, Sep. 8 : Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne is meeting with his management to discuss offers to play in this summer''s Big Bash League in Australia.

Warne is hot property and both Melbourne Twenty20 teams, the Stars and the Renegades, are eagerly chasing the former Test world record-holder''s signature, the Courier Mail reports.

Stars chairman Eddie McGuire and Renegades chairman James Brayshaw, both major media and AFL figures in Melbourne, will lend extra clout to negotiations with Victorian Warne and his management.

"Planning/strategy today with management," the paper quoted Warne, as saying on Twitter on Thursday.

He added: "Need to have my business brain on - also discussing all offers to be part of big bash in Aust."

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said this week it would be great to see Warne in action in the December-January tournament.

Warne, who turns 42 next week, retired from international cricket in 2007 but has since enjoyed a successful career in the Indian Premier League T20 competition.

"Many fans in Melbourne would have a difficult decision to make as to which side they go with," Sutherland said of Warne''s possible signing with a Melbourne team.

"I''d welcome his participation in the Big Bash League," Sutherland told reporters on Wednesday.

He added: "It would be great to see him coming in and playing for one of the Melbourne teams.

The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Warne, as saying in Melbourne earlier this week that his busy lifestyle meant committing to a new playing contract could be difficult.

"There is probably a possibility that I might play," Warne told Radio 3AW.

"I might be involved in some level on the Twenty20 but I am sort of mulling over those things at the moment with some business opportunities and sponsorship. It (BBL) is a good initiative from Cricket Australia. I''m just weighing those things up with scheduling. "Being divorced, with the children, juggling schedules, it''s difficult to give time-wise. My ex, Simone, and I are trying to work out what''s the best combination to have the children, they''re our No. 1 priority. To try and juggle all the scheduling, sponsorship and all those sorts of things, that will come into the decision," the former leg spinner said. (ANI)