Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley is thrilled that as many as 14 Australians might be participating within the inaugural Women’s Premier League (WPL) to be held in Mumbai subsequent month.

The first version of WPL, with staff valuation of greater than Rs 4600 crore and broadcast deal upwards of Rs 950 crore, has already began grabbing eye balls.

“We are so excited to see rapid growth of women’s cricket in India and to see full stadium in our last series here is absolutely fantastic and something we had been advocating in Australian cricket,” Hockley, who was current in Delhi throughout the second India versus Australia Test, advised PTI throughout an interplay.

Ashleigh Gardner, with a Rs 3.20 crore (USD 558,000) take care of Gujarat Giants, is the very best paid Australian star in WPL.

“We are absolutely delighted to see WPL starting. It’s a great parameter to see how many Australian players are playing in WPL and to have 40 per cent of the Aussie represent the overseas players in WPL, which is a great result.

“And equally in terms of T20 cricket, good number of Aussies are playing in IPL, it is great to see how we are going globally,” Hockley said throughout the dialog on the opening day of the second Test.

While the Indian males haven’t been allowed to play in franchise primarily based T20 leagues throughout the globe, prime girl cricketers like Harmanpreet Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Shafali Verma and Richa Ghosh have all plied their commerce in WBBL.

Hockley is assured that it received’t cease.

“More opportunity that we have for our female players is just absolutely brilliant. There is now an established pathway to play professional cricket for female cricketers which is so exciting,” he stated.

“We are proud that WBBL has been a leader and standard of cricket has been exceptionally high. So we would like to see as many Indian players playing in WBBL in foreseeable future.”

Not in favour of placing cap on taking part in T20 leagues

Too many males’s T20 leagues are being performed globally and Aussie cricketers are essentially the most sought-after. But Hockley is towards placing a cap on their participation though taking part in for Australia stays paramount.

“I think it is exciting to see the number of opportunities for cricketers coming through and main thing for us is Baggy Green that remains the pinnacle. As we have demonstrated this season that all players are playing BBL this season,” he stated.

“Equally, there have been good opportunities for some Australian players to play in various leagues. Ultimately playing for Australia in Test cricket, ODI or T20 is the ultimate prize for any Aussie cricketer.”

New FTP has been in a position to strike a positive steadiness

Unlike earlier instances, Hockley is glad with the brand new FTP the place there aren’t any white ball worldwide video games scheduled throughout the window of BBL, which permits all prime restricted overs stars to participate.

“We have got really great certainty on FTP which balances between domestic and international cricket. We are excited about next FTP in Australia. Now Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be five-match affair, putting it on par with the Ashes,” Hockley stated.

“And what we have done is we haven’t scheduled white ball international cricket at the same time as BBL because you get best chance to get best players available for BBL and equally a great breeding ground for talent coming through in Australian white ball cricket.”

CA is financially steady after new broadcast take care of Disney Star

Hockley had seen Cricket Australia by the torrid instances throughout the post-COVID-19 part and is pleased to share that the board is now financially steady.

“It was really tough and there was a lot of additional expenses. We had to pay for hotel quarantine, for chartered planes, we had restriction on number of people coming to the ground. It was tough but we have come through in good shape,” he stated.

“We are really excited about our new media deal with Disney Star which goes for the next seven years. We have also renewed our domestic TV deal with Fox Sports and Channel 7.”