Andrew Voss

Let's be really clear here.

There's not a capital investment coming into Cricket Australia.

There's not a capital investment coming in to the league, to the BBL.

It's coming in in a minority stake in clubs and clubs who can choose and determine their own partner.

Now, some clubs will be looking very much at a non-cricketing partner, someone who can assist them, grow their capability, capacity, commercial outcomes.

fan engagement, those sorts of things to make it a better experience for their club.

Some clubs may well look for a partner in cricket.

All of those things are on the table, but ultimately the decision is to come in at a club level, at a minority stake and try to add value.

Look, I think that's overblown because I think India are such a huge part of cricket, but we're not looking to sell the game to India.

I mean, that's it, full stop, next sentence.

We are looking to add value to our clubs and bring good partners in.

And the decision on who those partners are are at the behest of the states.

So it's on them to choose their partners.

Now, in relation to India, what I find a little polarizing is almost every business, every government agency I talk to are desperately keen to do business in India to create diplomacy and trade and opportunity.

So the flip of that is that we would look to do that in our country as well, in some parts of the B Bill, not the entire part.

And I think we've got to have a very open mind.

I don't think we should be closing our minds to any type of partner who wants to come into cricket.

The idea is to add value to cricket, not take it away.

Yeah, look, there's no doubt we could have and should have done a better job of the public narrative of why we're doing private capital and why the concept of private capital is valuable for Australian cricket.

I do think it's easy to run the other argument.