Nick Cummins
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622 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Nick Cummins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But as we go into the sales process, we'll have a very clear idea of the prospective buyers as to what their intentions are for this summer.
So we'll know very early on whether they want to change the name, appoint the coach, you know, or whether they're saying, look, it's all going to come too quickly and we'll let it run this season and then look again next season.
We'll have a clear idea over the next few months.
It's complicated.
This is a complicated thing, a private sale, but we need to be organised and ready for it and then keeping everyone in the loop as to what's happening.
I think it's twofold.
From Cricket Victoria's perspective, it's been well publicised the challenges that Cricket Australia have had financially.
A lot of that is debt that they incurred during COVID that's been hard to unwind through the vagaries of the international calendar.
So we believe that this reset is required in order to ensure that Australian cricketers are on a strong financial footing.
If we don't do that, then we suffer or we'll face the prospect of quite significant funding cuts, which then endangers the things that we regard as being important.
So that's specifically being community cricket, but also our high-performance program.
We want to protect those things.
We want to ensure that they're strong for the next 100 years.
So we think that that is really, really important and why we are supportive of privatisation.
The second part is...
The reality is there's enormous pressure on us to keep our players playing in Australia when there are other tournaments being played at the same time, the SAT20 being the most obvious, ILT20 recently, although it has moved into November.
So we need to ensure that we are competitive in terms of our salary cap compared to those other leagues.
Otherwise, players will either go and play in those other leagues or there's a possibility that they don't play at all, that in fact they earn enough money throughout the rest of the year that they may actually spend Christmas time just sitting on the couch playing
watching the tests and having a break with the family.
That's real.
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