NEW DELHI: Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley is thrilled that as many as 14 Australians might be collaborating within the inaugural Women’s Premier League (WPL) to be held in Mumbai subsequent month.
The first version of WPL, with staff valuation of greater than Rs 4600 crore and broadcast deal upwards of Rs 950 crore, has already began grabbing eye balls.
“We are so excited to see rapid growth of women’s cricket in India and to see full stadium in our last series here is absolutely fantastic and something we had been advocating in Australian cricket,” Hockley, who was current on the Ferozshah Kotla throughout the second India versus Australia Test, instructed PTI throughout an interplay.
Ashleigh Gardner, with a Rs 3.20 crore (USD 558,000) cope with Gujarat Giants, is the very best paid Australian star in WPL.
“We are absolutely delighted to see WPL starting. It’s a great parameter to see how many Australian players are playing in WPL and to have 40 per cent of the Aussie represent the overseas players in WPL, which is a great result.
“And equally by way of T20 cricket, good variety of Aussies are taking part in in IPL, it’s nice to see how we’re going globally,” Hockley stated during the conversation on the opening day of the second Test.
While the Indian men haven’t been allowed to play in franchise based T20 leagues across the globe, top woman cricketers like Harmanpreet Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Shafali Verma and Richa Ghosh have all plied their trade in WBBL.
Hockley is confident that it won’t stop.
“More alternative that we’ve got for our feminine gamers is simply completely sensible. There is now a longtime pathway to play skilled cricket for feminine cricketers which is so thrilling,” he said.
“We are proud that WBBL has been a pacesetter and normal of cricket has been exceptionally excessive. So we want to see as many Indian gamers taking part in in WBBL in foreseeable future.”
Not in favour of putting cap on playing T20 leagues
There are too many men’s T20 leagues being played across the globe and Aussie cricketers are the most sought after. But Hockley is against putting a cap on their participation although playing for Australia remains paramount.
“I believe it’s thrilling to see the variety of alternatives for cricketers coming by means of and important factor for us is Baggy Green that is still the top. As we’ve got demonstrated this season that every one gamers are taking part in BBL this season,” he said.
“Equally, there was good alternatives for some Australian gamers to play in varied leagues. Ultimately taking part in for Australia in Test cricket, ODI or T20 is the final word prize for any Aussie cricketer.”
New FTP has been able to strike a fine balance
Unlike earlier times, Hockley is satisfied with the new FTP where there are no white ball international games scheduled during the window of BBL, which allows all top limited overs stars to take part.
“We have gotten actually nice certainty on FTP which balances between home and worldwide cricket. We are enthusiastic about subsequent FTP in Australia. Now Border-Gavaskar Trophy might be five-match affair, placing it on par with the Ashes,” Hockley said.
“And what we’ve got carried out is we have not scheduled white ball worldwide cricket concurrently BBL since you get finest likelihood to get finest gamers obtainable for BBL and equally an excellent breeding floor for expertise coming by means of in Australian white ball cricket.”
CA is financially stable after new broadcast deal with Disney Star
Hockley had seen Cricket Australia through the torrid times during the post COVID-19 phase and is happy to share the information that the board is now financially stable.
“It was actually powerful and there was quite a lot of extra bills. We needed to pay for resort quarantine, for chartered planes, we had restriction on variety of individuals coming to the bottom. It was powerful however we’ve got come by means of in good condition,” he said.
“We are actually enthusiastic about our new media cope with Disney Star which fits for subsequent seven years. We have additionally renewed our home TV cope with Fox Sports and Channel 7.”
The first version of WPL, with staff valuation of greater than Rs 4600 crore and broadcast deal upwards of Rs 950 crore, has already began grabbing eye balls.
“We are so excited to see rapid growth of women’s cricket in India and to see full stadium in our last series here is absolutely fantastic and something we had been advocating in Australian cricket,” Hockley, who was current on the Ferozshah Kotla throughout the second India versus Australia Test, instructed PTI throughout an interplay.
Ashleigh Gardner, with a Rs 3.20 crore (USD 558,000) cope with Gujarat Giants, is the very best paid Australian star in WPL.
“We are absolutely delighted to see WPL starting. It’s a great parameter to see how many Australian players are playing in WPL and to have 40 per cent of the Aussie represent the overseas players in WPL, which is a great result.
“And equally by way of T20 cricket, good variety of Aussies are taking part in in IPL, it’s nice to see how we’re going globally,” Hockley stated during the conversation on the opening day of the second Test.
While the Indian men haven’t been allowed to play in franchise based T20 leagues across the globe, top woman cricketers like Harmanpreet Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Shafali Verma and Richa Ghosh have all plied their trade in WBBL.
Hockley is confident that it won’t stop.
“More alternative that we’ve got for our feminine gamers is simply completely sensible. There is now a longtime pathway to play skilled cricket for feminine cricketers which is so thrilling,” he said.
“We are proud that WBBL has been a pacesetter and normal of cricket has been exceptionally excessive. So we want to see as many Indian gamers taking part in in WBBL in foreseeable future.”
Not in favour of putting cap on playing T20 leagues
There are too many men’s T20 leagues being played across the globe and Aussie cricketers are the most sought after. But Hockley is against putting a cap on their participation although playing for Australia remains paramount.
“I believe it’s thrilling to see the variety of alternatives for cricketers coming by means of and important factor for us is Baggy Green that is still the top. As we’ve got demonstrated this season that every one gamers are taking part in BBL this season,” he said.
“Equally, there was good alternatives for some Australian gamers to play in varied leagues. Ultimately taking part in for Australia in Test cricket, ODI or T20 is the final word prize for any Aussie cricketer.”
New FTP has been able to strike a fine balance
Unlike earlier times, Hockley is satisfied with the new FTP where there are no white ball international games scheduled during the window of BBL, which allows all top limited overs stars to take part.
“We have gotten actually nice certainty on FTP which balances between home and worldwide cricket. We are enthusiastic about subsequent FTP in Australia. Now Border-Gavaskar Trophy might be five-match affair, placing it on par with the Ashes,” Hockley said.
“And what we’ve got carried out is we have not scheduled white ball worldwide cricket concurrently BBL since you get finest likelihood to get finest gamers obtainable for BBL and equally an excellent breeding floor for expertise coming by means of in Australian white ball cricket.”
CA is financially stable after new broadcast deal with Disney Star
Hockley had seen Cricket Australia through the torrid times during the post COVID-19 phase and is happy to share the information that the board is now financially stable.
“It was actually powerful and there was quite a lot of extra bills. We needed to pay for resort quarantine, for chartered planes, we had restriction on variety of individuals coming to the bottom. It was powerful however we’ve got come by means of in good condition,” he said.
“We are actually enthusiastic about our new media cope with Disney Star which fits for subsequent seven years. We have additionally renewed our home TV cope with Fox Sports and Channel 7.”
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com