{"id":639706,"date":"2026-04-30T03:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/639706\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:18:10","slug":"queensland-cricket-joins-new-south-wales-in-rejecting-big-bash-league-privatisation-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/639706\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland Cricket joins New South Wales in rejecting Big Bash League privatisation, video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket Australia\u2019s plan to privatise the Big Bash League has suffered another heavy setback, with Queensland Cricket reportedly joining New South Wales in rejecting the $600 million plan.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland Cricket, who controls the Brisbane Heat, has informed CA that the state is not in favour of continuing the process, joining a revolt against plans to sell stakes in BBL clubs, as first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketetal.com\/p\/exclusive-queensland-join-nsw-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cricket Et Al<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The decision leaves only five of competition\u2019s eight franchises available for sale; Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania previously voted to seek valuations on their teams.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Queensland Cricket is concerned private owners would not be as invested in the grassroots game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/cricket\/queensland-to-boycott-cricket-australia-plans-to-privatise-big-bash-league\/news-story\/1687bc38145a1ca0c6877a86e8128c0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">News Corp<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest cricket news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=CricketArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve Smith of the Sixers. Photo by Bradley Kanaris\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Cricket NSW chief executive Lee Germon reiterated that the state was firmly against the current privatisation model. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur position is that we still do not believe that the sale of the BBL clubs is the right approach here,\u201d Germon told reporters in Sydney. \u201cWhat I would like to reiterate is that we are in fierce agreement with Cricket Australia that we need to invest in the BBL, that we need to grow the BBL, we need to have our best players play in the BBL and in a window that allows that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe there\u2019s another way of doing that through some self-funding mechanisms and over the last three to four weeks, we\u2019ve been able to work on that alternative strategy. We shared that with Cricket Australia and the other states yesterday, so we would hope that that now forms a discussion in terms of an alternative strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CA boss Todd Greenberg is set to speak to media on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket Australia\u2019s plan to privatise the Big Bash League has suffered another heavy setback, with Queensland Cricket reportedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-639706","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\/639706","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=639706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}