Greg Chappell

We'd gone from a game that was played under sunlight in the daylight hours, in cream clothes, to playing at nighttime, white side screens in the daytime, black side screens, colored clothing.

And I listed off 50 years of history.

And I'm a great believer that if you don't know the history of the game, you don't know where it's been, you won't know where it's going.

And having been involved and being interested in the game and having spent time in India, I got a look at a very different side of the game and a different attitude towards the game.

And whilst test cricket is still important, it was moving inexorably towards shorter and shorter formats.

more entertainment than cricket, and the power of the game and the power of the money in the game had moved to the subcontinent, had moved to India.

So control of the game in the traditional sense has been lost.

And I can see if we sell the BBL, share in the BBL,

that the power will really have moved to the subcontinent because it will be subcontinental money.

It might not necessarily all be subcontinental people, but the companies and the individuals that are involved in it will be out of the subcontinent and will be out of India.

And therefore, how we sell the BBL is critical.

I don't have any problem with us exploring the opportunity.

I think it would be a bad thing if we didn't explore that opportunity.

But understand, A, that the whole process should be as transparent as possible.

And I know they'll all claim non-disclosal agreements and all that sort of stuff.

But the people, the public, are the owners of the game.

Without them, the game doesn't exist.

So I think we need to know what's going on behind the scenes.

I wrote that article probably to take it to its limit, to be on the extreme side, to hopefully make people sit up and take notice because that's where we're going.

Willow is really hard to find.