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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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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
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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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
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Sixes, records and an ugly 0-64: The teenage phenom who just tore apart Pat Cummins
Earlier in the tournament, Cummins had lavished 15-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi with praise, calling him his “new favourite player”.
- Daniel Brettig
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Cricket Australia’s BBL sale plan in ruins after NSW and Queensland rejection
A Cricket Australia plan to sell-off stakes in all eight Big Bash League clubs for 2027 is effectively dead after NSW and Queensland raised opposed the privatisation plan.
- Daniel Brettig
The former Australian Test star in the frame to coach Sydney Thunder
Cricket NSW are splitting the head coaching roles for their state and Big Bash League teams after a dramatic few weeks in which all three positions have become open.
- Andrew Wu
‘Clock is ticking:’ Rival league could woo Aussie stars before BBL makes it to market
Australian cricket may face the prospect of losing players from the Big Bash League to play across the Tasman in a Twenty20 league to launch as soon as next season.
- Daniel Brettig