Robert 'Crash' Craddock
speaker
700 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Robert 'Crash' Craddock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like the players are saying, you should privatise the Big Bash and get more money and you'd solve this.
And Cricket Australia says, I know, that's what we're trying to do, but we can't do it because New South Wales and Queensland don't agree.
So it's a very, very difficult one to solve because the two warring parties...
are on the same side of the argument.
Oh, yes.
And look, don't write it off at all.
I mean, already, you know, Marcus Stoinis and Tim David have shown that they they've rejected Australian contracts at points, you know, because they
they don't suit their year-long demands because they're T20 journeymen, and that's fine.
But higher up the scale, it could easily happen, Gerard.
And Pat Cummins has warned that it will happen.
He said, and the flashpoint will be in a couple of months' time,
when Australia is playing Bangladesh in Darwin and Mackay at the same time as the hundreds going on in England.
And to play in that tournament, some Australian players will sacrifice $600,000.
And, you know...
And Gerard, the old, the cricketers have changed in that they're businessmen now, as well as being sportsmen.
And the old days, the 80s, when players were, you know, you got a few bucks for playing it and you did your best and then the pay went up and you became, you're a half professional.
But these days, I mean, that is a watershed moment, that little series against Bangladesh in Northern Australia, when players are having to say no to real big bucks.
So...
And the Big Bash one, we've just felt that seeping through for seasons when, you know, the premium players for overseas.
Mohamed Rizwan from Pakistan could barely hit the ball off the square in the Big Bash and he's on around 400,000.
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