Shane Warne sees ‘greed’ behind Cricket Australia’s decision to expand BBL
Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne has criticized Cricket Australia’s decision to expand BBL and stated that expanding BBL would ‘dilute a wonderful product’. He also has urged the board to cut down on its 'greed' and work out a way that would be best for Australian cricket going forward.
Warne has slammed Cricket Australia (CA) for its decision to increase the number of games in the Big Bash League. After staging an eight-round season plus finals for the previous five editions, CA added an extra two rounds making it 10 games per team for BBL7. The board is keen to eventually stretch out to a full home and away season and this would result in a 59-game tournament – up from the previous season’s 43 matches.
Warne took to Twitter to express his frustration as he hoped that the ‘greed’ would get thrown out of the window. He feels the current format of the BBL is very good and tinkering with the format would be ‘diluting a wonderful product’.
Australian Cricket should be an equal partnership between the players & the board, then everyone would be on the same page, sure they won’t always agree - but if both parties attitude is - what’s best for Australian Cricket & not themselves - then Cricket & the fans would b happy https://t.co/c4HGUonTFX
— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) April 20, 2018
Ps And hopefully greed would then be thrown out the door too ! For example - it’s ridiculous that the BBL will have a lot more games next season & beyond - It’s a great comp & less is more should be the attitude - not let’s put more games on for $$ - diluting a wonderful product
— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) April 20, 2018
Earlier this month, in a deal worth AUD 1.2 billion with CA, Channel Seven and Fox Sports won the broadcast rights to Australian cricket for the next six years.
Also earlier, CEO James Sutherland had revealed to ESPNCricinfo that the additional fixtures have been added to find the right balance and have a proper build-up to the tournament's climax properly.
