Malcolm Speed

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.

They're not all Indian teams.

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

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.

It'll play in Australia.

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

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

And it might be that you could imagine the last sale of an IPL team was for $2.56 billion.

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.

And the TV rights would multiply enormously to have an Indian team there.

So they're quarantined over there.

Now, look, it's enormously difficult.

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

It's almost impossible, but it might be worth thinking about.

It might have been thought about already.