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Mike Baird.

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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Australia’s Ashleigh Gardner, right, celebrates with teammates Alana King and Annabel Sutherland, left, after taking the wicket of South Africa’s Nonkululeko Mlaba to win the game during the Women’s T20 World Cup match between Australia and South Africa at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, Saturday June 13, 2026. (Nigel French/PA via AP)

Aussies down South Africa in flying start to World Cup

Georgia Wareham starred as Australia blasted out a powerful statement of intent for the women’s T20 World Cup in Manchester.

  • Ben Findon
Matt Short was bowled offering no shot in the one-day international against Bangladesh.

Australia lose an ODI series to Bangladesh for the first time after horror collapse

The Australian top order was unable to recover from an embarrassing 3-0 start in the second of a three-match series.

  • Daniel Brettig
Cricket Victoria CEO Nick Cummins.

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
India and Pakistan fans at the MCG.

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
Cricket Australia boss Todd Greenberg says selling off stakes in BBL teams is still firmly on the agenda.

‘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
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The forlorn figure: Ben Stokes in Australia.

I want to see Ben Stokes in one more Ashes showdown. That’s why he should quit the captaincy

The last thing cricket wants to see is Stokes retiring from the international game in circumstances where he looks and sounds fed up with the morass of responsibilities that come with leadership.

  • Daniel Brettig
Club captains Will Sutherland and Marcus Stoinis with the Melbourne mace.

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
Warne and Liz Hurley at the MCG.

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
A Big Bash League match between the Melbourne Stars and the Melbourne Renegades.

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