{"id":628590,"date":"2026-04-24T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628590\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:44:11","slug":"cricket-australias-plan-to-privatise-the-big-bash-league-doesnt-stack-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628590\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Australia\u2019s plan to privatise the Big Bash League doesn\u2019t stack up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Baird, the chairman of Cricket Australia, has consistent form at the top of the order. Privatisation form.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, as the premier of NSW, he pushed through the partial privatisation of the state\u2019s electricity network. Now, with Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg, he is championing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/sport\/the-one-thing-that-could-move-the-mark-on-the-bbl-s-privatisation-20251110-p5n91a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">privatisation of Big Bash League<\/a> franchises.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Baird, the chairman of Cricket Australia, has consistent form at the top of the order. Privatisation form.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-628590","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\/628590","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=628590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}