Ken Hinkley

They could be available to play in our league.

If you could get to the stage where there was one of the top Indian players in each of our eight franchises, that'd be great.

because that would increase the visibility of the BBL in India and massively increase the TV rights.

So it would be a real positive.

So there are some negatives, there are some positives.

Cricket Australia is in a strong position.

It doesn't have to sell.

It can dictate the terms of a sale.

It can dictate the terms under which the new look BBL would operate, and it would need to do so to allay the fears that those people you're talking about, and I was one of them.

I've thought that through.

I was one of them.

I didn't want that to happen, that they have.

Wildest blue sky thinking, Gerard, is there will be, at some stage or other, there will be some private ownership there.

It's up to Cricket Australia to maximise, to get the timing right and to maximise the impact of that.

Hopefully it's all of the teams rather than fragmented.

The blue sky, the ridiculous idea, the one that people will scoff at, and it's a sort of a one in a hundred chance, is that in fact...

the BBL expands into India.

It goes to BCCI and the IPL and says, we want to have an India team based in India in the BBL.

It'll play in Australia.

The Australian teams will come and play in India against that team here.