Malcolm Speed

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, 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.