Robert Craddock

Because Victoria trying to push this through for the start of next season.

Other states are saying, hang on, we haven't even agreed on private ownership yet.

We haven't even gone to the players to let them agree on it yet.

We haven't had formal evaluations of what teams are worth.

And, you know, there's concerns on a lot of fronts.

I mean, one of them, Gerard, is that, you know, the second Victorian team obviously will be sold to Indian investors and it'll get an Indian name.

You know, the Knight Riders from so-and-so, as there are in so many T20 competitions around the world.

And the feeling is they will be supported by tens and thousands of Indian fans and that's fine.

But we live in a very complex Australia at the moment.

You've got Pauline Hanson, you know, really, you know, playing her sort of racial card as she does.

And there's a lot of tension in the air.

So I just wonder, you know, what is the right move?

And I know Victoria said, oh, we've surveyed hundreds of people.

But you know what, Gerard?

The people that really matter that you should be surveying are the ones between the ages of 10 and 20.

What do they think?

The kids, what are they?

When the Big Bash was first formed, a bloke in charge of it said to me, he said, if you're upset about this idea,

of having city-based teams and not state teams, about having names that are not animals and things like that, about having non-state colours, he said, I say, that's good because you don't matter.

It's about the kids and what they think.