Todd Greenberg on the "damn difficult" BBL privatisation process
5/11/202631 min
The man in the middle of the BBL privatisation debate is Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg and he sits down with Corbin for half an hour to pull back the curtain on one of the most talked about cricket decisions in decades.
Find out why Greenberg says that trying to convince the States was “like trying to land a very big jumbo jet on a very skinny runway”. The two run through the possibility of a hybrid model, the place for gambling, a potential T20 leagues Grand Slam, what type of investors might be interested and how the Big Bash and test cricket can coexist in a busy schedule over Summer.
Big topic, big guest, must listen.
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First 90 secondsCorbin Middlemas· Host0:00
[upbeat music] ABC Listen. Podcasts, radio, news, music, and more. [upbeat music] ABC Cricket Podcast time. My name's Corbin Middlemass, and there's no Ed Cowan today. We have a very special guest, and a more than suitable replacement to chop up everything going on in Australian cricket. He's the man in charge, the chief executive of Cricket Australia, Todd Greenberg joins me. Uh, Todd, appreciate your time.
Todd Greenberg· Guest0:28
My pleasure, Corb. Thanks for having me on.
Corbin Middlemas· Host0:30
Uh, is, is there much going on at the moment in, uh, in Australian cricket? Have you, you been busy?
Todd Greenberg· Guest0:34
Well, I mean, it's the middle of footy season, but feels like, uh, talkability for cricket's, uh, on the rise. I remember when I first joined cricket, people were saying to me, "There needs to be more talkability," is the word they used. So we've delivered on that, if nothing else, that's for sure.
Corbin Middlemas· Host0:49
There's no doubt about that. Uh, we, we got so many things that we'd love to, to pick up and, and chat about, uh, with you, obviously, yeah, all centered around the, the privatization stuff. Um, Ben Horne's piece in the, the weekend paper, I might just start there given it's the most recent and, and most current. So, uh, he wrote about the fact that there's five holdouts when it comes to Cricket Australia contracts at the moment over essentially pay disputes, and 12 BBL stars that were part of a, a WhatsApp group that are also unhappy about the finances in the game. Now, the premise of the piece was talking about the fact that they were disgruntled about, yeah, privatization and the lack of money that's gonna come into the game, and the, the money that went to overseas players as opposed to the local guys. But no name, no pack drill, and this process the whole way through feels like whatever side