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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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 cricket is on 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.
There are lots of examples I can give where we're seeing that tension come through.
So to reiterate, it's about ensuring that the financial position of Australian cricket is strong well into the future, but also to ensure that the Big Bash is competitive globally.
The Melbourne Renegades somehow have won their first big-batch title.
No-one here knows how they've done it, but they have.
A 13-run win, the most unlikely of victories for the men in red.
There's an enormous amount of interest.
And that's across the world.
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