Former Australian legend Adam Gilchrist has dropped a controversial opinion on the incorporation of foreign investors into the Cricket Australia-owned Big Bash League. The legend feels this is in no way going to elevate its position or inculcate a passion within fans to follow it.
The Big Bash League is one of the oldest cricket leagues in the world, and despite its world-class status, the league is limited to a majority of Australian cricketers. In order to grab more worldwide attention, Cricket Australia decided to bring in global investors on board.
One of the central ideas behind this was that investors could draw the attention of bigger players, providing ample money, much like the SA20 and the ILT20, which now have bigger names due to the money factor, keeping aside the IPL, which is the most commercially profitable league in the world.
The idea of the privatisation of cricket leagues is not a first for any board, as the ECB completely privatized the teams in The Hundred. Several Indian and American investors have bought stakes in the participating teams, and from the upcoming season, it will be a privately owned league with the ECB as the governing body. Cricket Australia desires a similar role.
This reconstruction would also mark a major shift to the BBL's window, which could avoid its potential clash with several other tournaments and the cricket league, as well as international matches. Also, Cricket Australia has kept its plans on track, since it is believed that the fortune from the sale of the stakes could be saved in order to support the financial stability of the league in the long term.
Adam Gilchrist blasts CA over the prospect of private ownership in the BBL
Though many cricketers, be they former cricketers like Shane Watson or current players like Usman Khawaja, have supported the idea of privatization, many Australian greats have considered it to be insignificant, like Adam Gilchrist.
Australian wicket-keeper batter Adam Gilchrist, one of the greatest cricketing minds from the nation, believes that the league's standard would not be uplifted only by the pumping in of foreign money.
"I just don't know if pumping...most likely the Indian money or money out of the UAE into the competition is going to elevate it and get the passion from the fans to follow it," said Adam Gilchrist on the prospect of private ownership in the BBL.
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Cricket Australia, amid all this, has proposed a central idea of not more than 3 teams to be sold to Indian owners, since they would also like to have some attention from the American brands, as well as the ones from the United Arab Emirates. Indian brands investing largely in foreign leagues have been common in recent times, like the Hundred, SA20, MLC, and ILT20.
Also, another concern would be if Indian owners would actually allow their teams to pick players out of the rival nation of Pakistan. This concern has recently erupted in the Hundred for its upcoming season. However, CA expects Indian investments would be propelling the BCCI to consider letting their players play in the BBL, which doesn't seem very likely to happen.
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