Gerard Whateley

Thank you.

Thanks, Gerard.

Appreciate it.

Fascinating times.

Alistair Dobson, who runs the BBL and the WBBL.

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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?

Yeah, it needs to look like a BBL game.

And again, it sort of goes to the question, will it resonate?

Will people resent the fact that it's not here or will they go, this is a big deal on an elevated stage?

There's quite clearly tensions last month that got aired around the capacity for Australian-based players to earn versus what international players were able to earn with the $420,000 platinum versus sort of $200,000 to $300,000.

Have you been able to address that at all?

Yeah, so that is a legitimate, grievance is not the right word, but concern that there is far more money available to these players elsewhere than there are under the salary caps and provisions here.