Robert 'Crash' Craddock

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700 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Whateley · The Wisdom & Experience of Robert Craddock (11.05.26) · 11 May 2026 podcast

Well, the short story is that in a bid to keep the absolute elite players like Travis Head and Pat Cummins out of the clutches of the T20 leagues around the world, which are offering insane money, they've beefed up their contracts.

But in doing so, you sort of –

aggravate those further down the list who say, what about us?

Previously, Australia had used a set contract model.

Number one gets this, number two gets that.

But Cummins will now get more than $4 million a year.

Head will be up around the $3 million mark.

And so then there's, you just have to be careful that those further down the list, and five players allegedly have refused to sign, accept their deals.

No one has signed yet.

They all have their offers.

And there's further aggravation down the list with news that Marnus Labuschagne has been offered a three-year deal.

I mean, some players are saying, hang on, he didn't have a great year at all.

How does he get that?

And then there's aggravation on the big bash front where a group of senior players, and this has been brewing for three years, is saying...

How can guys like Luke Wood and Mohammad Rizwan get paid $420,000 a year to be imports and we get $100,000 less?

So they're frustrated.

But, Gerard, here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

This is a very complex issue to solve because the warring parties –

believe the same argument.

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