{"id":241176,"date":"2026-04-30T04:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/cricket-australias-bbl-sell-off-on-hold-after-queensland-joins-nsw-in-rejecting-plans\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:58:19","slug":"cricket-australias-bbl-sell-off-on-hold-after-queensland-joins-nsw-in-rejecting-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/cricket-australias-bbl-sell-off-on-hold-after-queensland-joins-nsw-in-rejecting-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Australia\u2019s BBL sell-off on hold after Queensland joins NSW in rejecting plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cricket Australia\u2019s plan to sell off stakes in the eight Big Bash League franchises has been placed on hold after Queensland joined New South Wales in rejecting the original privatisation proposal.<\/p>\n

Queensland Cricket, which controls BBL side Brisbane Heat, has backed Cricket NSW\u2019s opposition to CA\u2019s plan<\/a> to sell up to 49% of each franchise to private owners, with valuations of up to $200m per team.<\/p>\n

The Victorian, Western Australian and Tasmanian cricket associations have shown support for the BBL privatisation plans, while South Australia is open to the idea for other states but wants to maintain control of the Adelaide Strikers for the time being.<\/p>\n

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The revolt from two state associations leaves the future of the T20 league up in the air<\/a> from the 2027-28 season, as CA begins to consider alternative options.<\/p>\n

CA chief executive Todd Greenberg said he would have gone ahead with testing the market if five of the six states had supported the privatisation proposal.<\/p>\n

Instead, he will now explore SA\u2019s preferred model, where some states bring in private capital now, and others join later.<\/p>\n

\u201cOption A for us has always been … that we do it at the same time to extract the maximum value in the market,\u201d Greenberg said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut clearly we\u2019re not at that point, so we now have to reassess what comes next.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve just moved to trying to analyse what a different model might look like, and is there a model where some states are taking private capital and some states aren\u2019t?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would have to get some deep analysis to understand the impacts on Australian cricket. Because to do this, it needs to benefit the entire sport, and we have to look at that lens in the decisions that we make.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Steve Smith of the Sixers and Matthew Wade of the Hurricanes in action in the BBL.<\/span> Photograph: Mark Kolbe\/AAP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Greenberg said it would be business as usual for the BBL next season, while CA explore ways to raise additional revenue and compete with white-ball competitions around the globe including The Hundred in the UK.<\/p>\n

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The ECB\u2019s auction for The Hundred franchises last year raised \u00a3520m<\/a> (A$1bn) as money continues to follow in the slipstream of the Indian Premier League and flow into franchise cricket, including in South Africa the UAE.<\/p>\n

Greenberg said some states are \u201cabsolutely interested\u201d in IPL franchises buying stakes in BBL clubs, while others aren\u2019t. But he flatly rejected NSW\u2019s ulterior funding model to privatisation to make more off gambling on cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur view is that\u2019s not a step the sport would accept, to back itself on wagering, is not a way to fund the game, and it\u2019s been very clear from the CA board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said private investment is inevitable if Australian cricket wants to compete with the rest of the world. When private investors do come, it could mean changes to the colours and branding of franchises.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019ll be some states who will have a great affinity to their brand and their colours, and there\u2019ll be some states who don\u2019t. And I\u2019m sure there\u2019ll be some investors who will look at brands and colours and see that as a huge part of their investment, and others who won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cricket Australia\u2019s plan to sell off stakes in the eight Big Bash League franchises has been placed on hold after Queensland joined New South Wales in rejecting the original privatisation proposal. Queensland Cricket, which controls BBL side Brisbane Heat, has backed Cricket NSW\u2019s opposition to CA\u2019s plan to sell up to 49% of each franchise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}