Malcolm Speed

It's a legitimate concern, Gerard, but if you look at the people who bought the 100, it's a mixture of Indian IPL teams, a tech company from Silicon Valley, I think, maybe an England-based investor or tech company.

They're not all Indian teams.

Now, here, they may well be, and that's an issue.

And that's why we talk about governance and control and that sort of thing.

Cricket Australia needs to keep a high level of control over that if there is going to be private owners, largely Indian based there.

But there's also a plus side for that, that if you get Indian owners in there, you may get Indian players.

Now,

It'd be great.

One of the wrinkles of the IPL is that the BCCI does not allow any of the India players to play in any league anywhere else in the world.

So they're quarantined over there.

When our leagues played, the one-day players, sorry, the 2020 players, they're not playing test cricket at the time.

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.