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BBL, WBBL Contracting Delay Should've Been Resolved By Now, Admits Greenberg

New South Wales Cricket: Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg has admitted that the ongoing contract delays in the Big Bash League (BBL) and Womens Big Bash League (WBBL) should have been resolved earlier, as negotiations with the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) are still in a deadlock over revenue-sharing models. With barely two months remaining before the WBBL season kicks off, franchises are unable to finalise their squads due to an embargo triggered by the delay in signing a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Add to it, several Big Bash League players have voiced frustration at earning significantly less than overseas recruits in recent seasons, with their pay packets falling well short of global market rates offered in competitions such as the SA20 and ILT20 - a disparity attributed to the overseas draft. Weve got to unlock the contracting system pretty quickly. I think theres some final conversations going on at the moment, but yeah, we should have resolved it by now, so weve got to get moving. Weve got a big season to run. We want to be as successful as we can, Greenberg was quoted as saying by Cricinfo, on the sidelines of the ongoing first Test between Australia and Bangladesh. Greenberg revealed he held talks with ACA counterpart Paul Marsh on Wednesday, but both parties remain divided. The ACA has demanded an increase in the players' current 27.5 percent revenue share from the league - a proposal CA has firmly rejected. Were just at a fundamental difference at the moment. Australian cricket are strong believers and supporters of the revenue share model. I think its been great for cricket. Its great for the players. What were not supportive of is increasing the amount of percentage (share) that is. And so the ACA have put forward a proposal which increases it, and weve rejected that one. So weve got to find a way to get an outcome thats palatable for the ACA and palatable for us, he added. Were just at a fundamental difference at the moment. Australian cricket are strong believers and supporters of the revenue share model. I think its been great for cricket. Its great for the players. Also Read: Live Cricket Score Mike and I have got sessions with the boards of both New South Wales Cricket and Queensland Cricket in the next few weeks, and we want to have those conversations, and we want to have them in person before we go back to the board in September to make a final call, concluded Greenberg. Article Source: IANS

14 Aug 2026 1:58 pm