Alistair Dobson

So we hit the market with a really strong proposition.

That said, the bigger picture is that we need to be able to be competitive on our salaries for domestic and overseas players.

That's part of the change happening internationally.

in the game that the labour market, I guess, for the elite end of the cricket talent is getting really competitive.

So we'll be out there fighting hard.

Our clubs are really ambitious.

On the short term, I think we'll be in good shape this year, but it's part of our longer term, I guess, challenge or opportunity is how do we address that market in a way that makes the BBL stay as in the top tier of leagues?

Well, that's part of the final part of whether we keep the overseas player draft and how we model that.

Right now, we have a salary cap, we have list rules and the players will

will be able to attack, I guess, those salary caps with their agents, with their contracts.

I think one of the key objectives for us is to be able to bring more money into the salary cap in the future so that, importantly, not only do the best overseas players want to come and play in the BBL, but our best local Australian players, and particularly the stars that really underpin our competition, get paid what they're worth, not just compared to overseas players, but compared to the opportunities that are presenting around the world, which are growing rapidly and increasingly it's hard for us to keep pace with that in the current model.

Yeah, I mean, we have an MOU with the players that has a revenue share agreement in it and that has an allocation towards the BBL salary cap.

It's been competitive.

It grew in the last MOU.

We added significantly more money in that, but quickly it's becoming less competitive than before.

than we needed to be globally.

So part of the work we're doing with the ACA now is if we were to move into a privatised model and more capital or an injection was to come into the game, how do we best apportion that to different parts of the playing group?

From my perspective, clearly putting as much of that into the BBL and WBBL salary caps is going to be important because that underpins the ability for us to put the best teams on the field.

Yeah, we've got to work day and night to make sure we keep our best players playing in Australia because...

You know, whether it's, you know, every year we have test players coming in and out, and that's been a part of the life of the BBL for 15 years now.