Why is this a desirable outcome? - Nick Cummins | Cricket Victoria CEO (03.06.26)
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explain the why.
Why is merging the Victorian Big Bash League franchises a desirable decision?
Why is this a desirable decision to make now that you have committed yourself to it? Could you make that case publicly for us?
I think it's twofold. From Cricket Victoria's perspective, it's been well publicised the challenges that Cricket Australia have had financially. 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.
What financial challenges is Cricket Australia facing and how does it impact cricket in Victoria?
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 but in fact they earn enough money throughout the rest of the year that they may actually spend christmas time just sitting on the couch watching the tests and and having a break with the family that's that's real um 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 the financial position of australian cricket is strong well into the future
but also to ensure that the Big Bash is competitive globally.
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