Sam McClure

He batted really well in those two spots when he started there.

And then the further he slides down, there's a lot of evidence that apart from the Wellington 100, he doesn't bat very well with the tail.

Managing those situations is not something he's done well in the past with the exception of that innings.

So, yeah, he's a batter.

I can't disagree with the statement.

I've been writing about this for several months and it is dry and it's politics.

It's...

It's numbers, it's governance, it's all those problems that cricket fans don't really know about or want to know about or even, you know, I want to write about.

It's not what I got into sports journalism for.

Yeah, it's a mess.

There's disagreement, vehement disagreement amongst the states.

There's been a...

The CA has been on record, Todd Greenberg has been on record saying he hasn't explained it well enough to the public.

He also, I think, probably hasn't sold it well enough to the states to get this thing through to where they thought it would be, that there was potentially an assumption that everybody was on board, everyone was going to grab a paddle and row in the same direction, and that hasn't happened.

There's states and other stakeholders, including the ACA, that are kind of sensing a moment here and...

and wanting to hit pause on a few things and make sure there are other elements put in place before we press ahead with privatisation.

And then there's some states that think that pushing ahead with privatisation will solve those other things in the meantime.

So no one's in agreement here.

It's very difficult when you speak to people behind the scenes.

I haven't come across any scenario where two different people are giving me