Howie

I'd really struggle to work out how a couple of teams being ran by a state association basically would then stack up against...

potentially Indian or venture capitalist firms.

To me, that would be really confusing.

I don't think that you would then have any control to the high performance of Australian cricket, which I know that that's a big one for a lot of the stakeholders, is when you lose...

The ability to be able to run the high performance the way that you want in connection with what that looks like going up the chain to the Australian team, going back down all the way to grassroots cricket would be quite confusing.

So if you've got any ideas, feel free to throw them out there because I can't see how that would work.

I don't understand how you tell privately owned franchises what to do, re-salary cap and everything else as well, and how they're just going to cop that when they go, hang on, we own the franchise, we'll do what we like.

So you can't have state-run franchises and privately owned ones and think that you're going to control them all the same.

Yeah, exactly right.

The one thing that I know for a fact that Indian potential, especially the Indian franchises that are part of the IPL, which I've spoken to a few of them, one thing that they'd be keen to do is do a full auction for the players.

If you're buying a team that's been down the bottom of the list, which, I mean, the Renegades have been down there, the Melbourne Stars haven't been able to break through.

There's teams that still...

not consistently challenging for titles, they're not going to be prepared to pump in all their money to be able to then be dictated.

And you say, well, no, well, I want to go and get Marcus Stoinis from the Stars.

Well, you can't.

He's tied up for five years.

Okay, I want Ashton Turner from the Perth Scorchers.

Sorry, he's on a five-year deal.

So to me, that would be the biggest, one of the biggest hurdles for the competition as well, to just be able to say, you know what?

Everyone's in the auction or a team.