{"id":204780,"date":"2025-10-11T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204780\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:05:09","slug":"ceo-todd-greenburg-is-not-opposed-to-big-bash-league-becojme-a-trans-tasman-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204780\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Todd Greenburg is not opposed to Big Bash League becojme a Trans-Tasman competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Todd Greenberg has not ruled out international expansion for the Big Bash League<\/a> amid speculation a team based in New Zealand could be added to the competition.<\/p>\n

A report was presented by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in July this year to Cricket Australia<\/a> that outlined how the domestic league could improve and innovate.<\/p>\n

In that report was four suggestions on how the next phase of the league may unfold, including a reduced competition schedule and bringing on private investment.<\/p>\n

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A recommendation to expand the competiton was also included in the report.<\/p>\n

The topic expansion drew much interest across the cricket sphere, with teams based in Singapore and New Zealand emerging as potential targets to join the league.<\/p>\n

Other reports have suggested the Melbourne Renegades could move to Geelong.<\/p>\n

\"Melbourne<\/p>\n

The Melbourne Renegades in action.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

No official expansion plans have been confirmed as of yet, but Cricket Australia chief executive Greenburg admits he is not opposed to the idea.<\/p>\n

“We’ve certainly got an open mind to it,” Greenburg told SENQ Breakfast.<\/p>\n

“We’re talking to all our state CEOs about how we best optimise the Big Bash and at the same time, secure the game’s long-term future.<\/p>\n

“I think it would be remiss of us if we weren’t looking at these opportunities presented by private investment – that’s not to say we’ve made a decision yet.<\/p>\n

\"Cricket<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg speaks to the media.\u00a0Getty Images for Cricket Austral<\/p>\n

“But certainly, expanding the competition and markets like New Zealand are top of mind.<\/p>\n

“So, over the next three to six months, I think we are going to see some work on that and make some decisions.”<\/p>\n

The first ball of the 15th edition of the Big Bash League will be bowled on December 14 when the Perth Scorchers face the Sydney Sixers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Greenberg has not ruled out international expansion for the Big Bash League amid speculation a team based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-204780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}