Malcolm Speed
speaker
666 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Malcolm Speed’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now we get a bit blasé about millions and billions these days.
Now a million is still a lot of money but you put an extra two million into that and suddenly the Australian salary cap would be competitive with the hundred.
It would be better than most of the other leagues.
It would be very attractive.
But I'd want to know that that was happening.
There's nothing worse than seeing a sport sell out to private equity and then the money evaporates.
And we've seen that with some sports in different parts of the world and in Australia.
The second thing I'd want to see, and this is difficult, I think there'd need to be a change to the governance structure for the BBL.
The BBL is operated, it's governed by the Cricket Australia board.
So there is no separate BBL board.
If you brought in private owners, I think they'd need a voice.
That voice needs to be moderated.
There needs to be a very strong Cricket Australia presence with the old saying that...
You can't beat control.
Australia would need to have a lot of control here.
That gets difficult if you're only selling some of the franchises.
So you bring in, you have your fund, you're going to have a new salary cap.
Everyone plays under the same salary cap, but if New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland haven't sold, do they get a drawdown on the money that's been invested by the three states that have to fund their new salary cap while they still sit on 100% of the equity in their franchises?
So it's messy.
It's messy if they do that.
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