Malcolm Speed

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Whateley · Malcolm Speed - Warming to privatisation | The Godfather of Australian Sports Administration (13.05.26) · 13 May 2026 podcast

If that happens, and I'm right about 2020 being the dominant form of cricket, I think Australia needs to keep up.

Australia needs to be able to make sure its own players play in our 2020 league, make sure that we get our fair share of the top foreign players who are available without breaking the bank.

We need to keep up with the other leagues.

And we'll offer things in Australia that some of the other leagues can't offer that will appeal to players, but we need to keep up.

Now, how do we do that?

The next media rights deal for cricket doesn't occur until 2031, so we're five years away from that.

So there's not going to be a big influx of money from media rights if there's going to be any increase at all.

And the media companies, as usual, are playing down the market, saying the market's tough.

But I think it is pretty tough and things have changed.

So this comes along at a time, a difficult time for Cricket Australia, where the England Cricket Board has sold the 100, sold...

private ownership of the hundreds.

So I think five of the counties sold 49%, 270%, 100%.

And they got hundreds of thousands of pounds, I think something like 500,000 pounds for that.

So a massive amount of money.

And the pressure's on.

So their player payments have increased.

They will continue to increase.

The pressure is on Australia now.

How do they respond to the discussion that's out there at the moment?

And that's the issue that Todd faces.

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