{"id":175199,"date":"2025-10-02T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175199\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:22:09","slug":"ca-boss-addresses-pakistan-bbl-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175199\/","title":{"rendered":"CA boss addresses Pakistan BBL ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cricket Australia remains hopeful it can find a resolution with the Pakistan Cricket Board after it banned its players from competing in overseas Twenty20 tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PCB chief operating officer Sumair Ahmad Syed issued players a notice on September 29, restricting them from competitions outside Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s is a major blow to Cricket Australia and its Big Bash League clubs after Pakistani talent was the highlight of a successful draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Top-liners Babar Azam (Sydney Sixers), Shaheen Shah Afridi (Brisbane Heat) and Muhammad Rizwan (Melbourne Renegades) were all locked in for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cricket Australia boss Todd Greenberg is in contact with the PCB and remains confident the headline acts will feature this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been in contact with our colleagues at the PCB over the last few days, we\u2019re hopeful we can find a resolution,\u201d Greenberg said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe\u2019re really looking forward to welcoming their players to the Big Bash, we think they\u2019ll add great value \u2026 it will be a fascinating summer across the BBL, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Cricket Australia remains confident the PCB will allow its stars to compete in the BBL. Picture: Sajjad Hussain \/ AFP\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/85fe144956d970da8b1e9525f33817c2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cricket Australia remains confident the PCB will allow its stars to compete in the BBL. Picture: Sajjad Hussain \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The BBL, and more specifically Sydney Thunder, received a boost when Indian megastar Ravichandran Ashwin signed last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Greenberg denies any integral issues with Ashwin\u2019s arrival post draft and expects him to be a major drawcard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe\u2019ve found provisions where we can make that work and all the clubs had equal opportunity to engage with him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s a big moment for the BBL to welcome Ravi here, I have been talking to him personally on a number of occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI have found him a breath of fresh air, I think our fans are going to really enjoy watching him play and engaging with him when he\u2019s here for the BBL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe will probably and very likely draw a crowd bigger than (23,000, ENGIE Stadium\u2019s capacity), but he\u2019s got quite a few away games in some big stadiums, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to be short of people wanting to come and watch him play, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket Australia remains hopeful it can find a resolution with the Pakistan Cricket Board after it banned its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,8110,78293,21243,10225,30145,78291,49474,101,78292,78295,78294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-175199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-australia","10":"tag-muhammad-rizwan","11":"tag-pakistan-cricket-board","12":"tag-pcb","13":"tag-ravichandran-ashwin","14":"tag-sajjad-hussain","15":"tag-shaheen-shah-afridi","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sumair-ahmad-syed","18":"tag-sydney-sixers","19":"tag-todd-greenberg","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}