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- Australian cricket
Cricket Australia board to be overhauled, BBL sale greenlit after crunch meeting
The decision means Victoria will be able to carry on with plans for selling a BBL licence.
- Daniel Brettig
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- Cricket Australia
Victoria backs down from explosive confrontation over BBL sale
Cricket Victoria has backed down from the potentially explosive call to send chief executive Nick Cummins to the meeting where Australian cricket’s leaders meet to decide the fate of the BBL privatisation project.
- Daniel Brettig
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- Cricket Australia
Will Indian Australians really flock to a team owned by an Indian conglomerate? Good chance they won’t
The decision to merge Melbourne’s BBL teams and prepare for a sale is impulsive and commercially naive.
- John Wylie
‘Best and most effective way’: Cricket Australia boss triples down on BBL sell-off
CA chief executive Todd Greenberg declared that selling stakes in Big Bash League clubs is “comfortably the best and most effective way” to preserve Australian cricket’s future – with backing from the game’s broadcasters.
- Daniel Brettig
Players consider BBL contract release requests following Melbourne merger
Multiple Melbourne Stars and Renegades players are seeking urgent one-on-one meetings with Cricket Victoria over last week’s sensational merger of the two BBL clubs, amid questions over the status of their contracts and the identities of the teams
- Daniel Brettig
Have your say: The three new names Cricket Victoria has trademarked to replace the Stars
The Melbourne Rangers is one of three names put forward by Cricket Victoria as a potential new moniker for the Stars.
- Andrew Wu
Warnie and Liz put the box office into the BBL. Now their club is gone
Melbourne’s Stars and Renegades are finished as we know them, Australian cricket is divided, and it’s all about money. The franchise revolution is upon us.
- Daniel Brettig and Chloe Saltau
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- Australian cricket
Baird, Greenberg challenged by blindsided state chiefs in key BBL meeting
Cricket Australia chair Mike Baird and chief executive Todd Greenberg denied approving Cricket Victoria plans to merge the Stars and Renegades to free up a Big Bash licence to sell to private investors.
- Daniel Brettig
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‘What a cluster’: Furious states call crisis meeting as BBL merger leaves players confused
The shock BBL merger has left players in limbo, prompted former Stars powerbrokers Eddie McGuire and John Wylie to question the wisdom of retiring the glamour club’s established brand, and blindsided other states.
- Daniel Brettig
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- Cricket Australia
Big Bash shock: Melbourne Stars and Renegades to merge
Cricket Victoria will kill off the Melbourne Stars and Renegades brands to merge them into one team under the state banner.
- Daniel Brettig