Cricket Australia's chair is now running their major sponsor?
4/28/20261 hr 57 min
Season 20, Episode 8: This one doesn't sit right: CA chair Mike Baird is now planning to double up that job with being CEO of the insurer NRMA, which also happens to be CA's naming sponsor for Test summers. All this while he's also the main driver of privatising the Big Bash. What's going on? Also this week, women's T20 World Cup news comes apace, while a slew of players are being banned from various levels of cricket for a range of offences.
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