Gerard Whateley
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Are you going to be able to rectify that or does that require the step towards privatisation?
How damaging would it be if household name Australians, so not the Australian players, but those who have underpinned the BBL for a long time, took contracts to South Africa and upped?
So we're used to the international players doing it, but there's not really any precedent for the Australian players doing it.
How damaging would that be?
Will the Renegades play out of Marvel, their home games?
Yeah.
So there's been a second home at Geelong and then there's the MCG.
Marvel's never been a good cricket venue as I'm editorialised there.
Would you expect a little bit of the Renegades at the MCG in whatever else they do?
You've got in the sort of the waiting period, the choose your own adventure model that we have at the moment, where some states will and some states won't.
How complex is that going to be for you as to put the rules in place around player movement?
If an Indian team, if an IPL team buys a BBL franchise and they want to put Indian players in it, which hasn't been a possibility before, will...
Will you have hard and fast rules or will you need a bit of a tiered structure to accommodate the choose your own adventure model?
India protects talent very closely.
Is there any world in the future in which Indian contracted players could play in the BBL?
Is that a desire?
How close are you to locking the BBL opener to India?
What would you need that to look like?
To be a success back home, it's easy to understand what a success would look like as a one-off game in India.
For whoever those teams are and for the starting point, to resonate with people back home, what would it need to look like?