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<\/p>\n\u201c[Ben Oliver], he runs high-performance cricket, but I\u2019m not really sure what he does now. Then you have George Bailey, who is the chairman of selectors. Does he have the gravitas or the leadership skills to tell Andrew McDonald and Steve Smith, or Pat Cummins, what to do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Greenberg said on Tuesday the comments were \u201cunwarranted\u201d and \u201cout of order\u201d, describing them as a personal attack.<\/p>\n
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Stuart Clark was back on ABC commentary duties on Wednesday.Credit: AP<\/p>\n
Clark later sought Greenberg out at the SCG to discuss the issue and the pair met near the CA suite in the Victor Trumper Stand.<\/p>\n
After the ABC was denied a post-play interview, Marks phoned Greenberg to express his displeasure, according to sources speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the discussions.<\/p>\n
Clark was present at the SCG on Wednesday and will continue his commentary role with the ABC, which is standing by the former Test bowler. Clark is also the chief executive of Softball NSW.<\/p>\n
ABC broadcaster Corbin Middlemas said on air before play on Wednesday it was the ABC\u2019s understanding the interview ban was limited to one day.<\/p>\n
\u201cCricket Australia were unhappy about it,\u201d Middlemas said.<\/p>\n
Clark also addressed the interview snub on Wednesday, saying he stood by his comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a quiet old day yesterday. I felt very fulfilled and content with my day,\u201d Clark said.
\u201cWe want to see the cricket and hear from the players. It is part of the reason the broadcasters pay so much for the rights. I hope we get to talk someone who scores a hundred or scores a five-fer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe amount of people who have reached out to me [who] I haven\u2019t spoken to in years \u2026 I\u2019m fine. I had a good night\u2019s sleep. It\u2019s my opinion. Personally, I\u2019ve moved on and it\u2019s not causing any grief in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Greenberg said he had made his position clear to Clark.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to get into a war of words with Stuart because I\u2019ve got very high regard for him, but when I think that someone\u2019s got it wrong, I\u2019ll say it,\u201d Greenberg said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn this occasion, I thought he overstepped the mark by talking not just about the decisions, but individually about people. I thought that was personal. I said that to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greenberg and Marks have an interesting history. Greenberg, the former boss of the NRL, and Marks, a former chief executive of Nine Entertainment Company, were on opposite sides of the negotiating table when thrashing out NRL broadcast rights deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c[Ben Oliver], he runs high-performance cricket, but I\u2019m not really sure what he does now. Then you have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-396923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396923","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=396923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}