Cricket Australia Chief warns that some countries run the risk of busting by playing tests

The Cricket Australia Chief Executive, Todd Greenberg, has warned that some countries will “bankrupt” if they continue to play the longest size of the game, and emphasizes that he sees a future with fewer testing countries.

If he admits that he has become a “little unpopular” since he took over from Nick Hockley in March, the former boss of the Australian Cricketers “Association” Scarculation in Test Cricket is our friend, not our enemy “.

“I don’t think everyone in World Cricket should strive to play test cricket, and that might be okay,” Greenberg said on Wednesday with 100 days to go for the ashes. Many traditionalists may not like that.

“I do not suggest that I know the song will play, but we literally try to send countries bankrupt if we force them to try to play a test cricket. We must ensure that we invest in the right spaces to play a test cricket where it means something, and that is why the ashes will be so huge and so profitable because it means something.”

But more test cricket could be played in Australia, with Greenberg open to play red ball matches in Queensland and the Northern Territory in the winter.

Australia is currently organizing South Africa in Twenty20S and ODIs in Darwin, Cairns and Mackay. Tests were last played in Darwin and Cairns more than 20 years ago, with Australia Sri Lanka organized in 2003, then the following year Bangladesh.

‘I was in Darwin on Sunday evening [for the first T20]”Said Greenberg.” I mainly went there because it meant a lot to the people of the Northern Territory. They had not had an international cricket there the best part of 17 years. The only thing you go there in this time of the year is that you take the biggest variable, namely the weather. Great facilities … I can see that [Tests] happens. “

Greenberg has also investigated the privatization of the Big Bash League and has noted that other T20 competitions around the world are supported by money outside the ruling cricket signs. “That will make some people upset, and it will race the hare and possibly of people who debate about the merits,” he said.

“It would be completely naive of us who are here in Australia not to explore it. I do not suggest that we are still going to do it. I do not suggest that a decision has been made, and in the end it will not only be my decision or the decision of Cricket Australia. It will be the entire leadership of the Australian cricket and it must be supposed and it must be supposed.”