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Speaker 1: Here the duple cy Ellen.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety two is the text number. Standard text fees

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Speaker 2: apply and Nikola Willis is with us after six o'clock

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Speaker 2: so we will discuss this now. Cricket, the BBL idea

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Speaker 2: is dead. N Z twenty is happening. New Zealand Cricket

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Speaker 2: has announced it's supporting the idea of setting up a

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Speaker 2: privately owned, franchised competition in New Zealand. Don McKinnon is

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Speaker 2: the chair of the n Z twenty Establishment Committee. Hi Don,

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Speaker 2: Hello Heather, how are you very well? Thank you? Now

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Speaker 2: this is only a soft green light. I mean NZC

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Speaker 2: is making it very clear it's not a final commitment.

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Speaker 2: So is that enough for you guys to get going.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is. I mean, I think to really start

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Speaker 1: getting some investor confidence and also to drive forward towards

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Speaker 1: getting a license. We needed this in principal decision first

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Speaker 1: and we've been asking for it and it's take it

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Speaker 1: a little while, but we've got there in the end.

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Speaker 2: And do you I mean, are you guys seriously going

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Speaker 2: to be able to make the deadline of January twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: We think we are. I'm slightly you know, I can't

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Speaker 1: be at that slightly by saying there's a few things

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Speaker 1: beyond our control, including how long it takes to get

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Speaker 1: the license and to nail that league investor. We've got

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Speaker 1: huge interest, but you know that it will take a

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Speaker 1: little bit of time, so we do have a backup

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Speaker 1: who's going to cook. It's very rare, but it could

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Speaker 1: push to January twenty eight, but that is not that's

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Speaker 1: not our goal at the moment. We're going to work

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Speaker 1: really hard to deliver it in the timeframe we've got.

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Speaker 2: Well, don't you have to go for January twenty seven?

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Speaker 2: Otherwise you've got a whole bunch of New Zealand black

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Speaker 2: Caps who are going to sign contracts that are multi

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Speaker 2: year and then you lose the best players.

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Speaker 1: Yep, one hundred percent. And that's one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: why we want to get there this year. And as

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Speaker 1: I said that, we're going to We're going to do

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Speaker 1: absolutely everything we can. But it's fair to say the

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Speaker 1: last two or three months of sort of waiting to

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Speaker 1: get to this point has made it challenging.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what is it that you need to do before

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Speaker 2: before January twenty seven so that this thing flies well?

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Speaker 1: The the list is a really long one. To be good,

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Speaker 1: to be honest. But if you start by negotiating license,

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Speaker 1: getting all the controls that any national body will want

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Speaker 1: to have in place. Major association is one place that

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Speaker 1: and the rules that we'll need. Then we need to

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Speaker 1: go and find a licensed owner. Obviously we're well advanced

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Speaker 1: in that regard, but we need to negotiate that. Then

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Speaker 1: we've got to sell the teams. Then we've got to

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Speaker 1: hire the players. Then we've got to find venues for

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Speaker 1: all of those that are fit for purpose with a

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Speaker 1: broadcasting dealt the main sponsorship deals. I mean, the list

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Speaker 1: is a long one, it's significant, and yeah, it looks

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Speaker 1: like a lot of work.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that you have enough interest from investors

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Speaker 2: to account for all of the squads?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I do. I mean it's remarkable just how many

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Speaker 1: times the phone rings from people saying, you know where

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Speaker 1: that are really interested. What would it take? I mean,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, this is

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Speaker 1: still a startup. So is there a risk that we

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Speaker 1: don't we don't achieve what we think we can achieve. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But if you just look at what happened in Europe recently,

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Speaker 1: where you know, teams in Rotterdam and teams in scott London,

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Speaker 1: Ireland were sold for extraordinary sums of money in markets

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Speaker 1: that are just not traditional cricket markets. We're really confident

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Speaker 1: we can make this work.

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Speaker 2: Why do these people want to buy a sports team here?

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Speaker 2: Is it a little bit about I mean, is it

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Speaker 2: that thing that people do when they've got lots of

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Speaker 2: money and then they want to have the kudos of

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Speaker 2: owning a sports team because it's a bit flash.

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Speaker 1: I think it's mixed. I mean, if you look at

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Speaker 1: by buying teams that have sold, you know, ten times

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Speaker 1: what they paid for them. So there's some motivation there.

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Speaker 1: I think for some people it's almost like, you know,

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Speaker 1: why do you buy a super yacht you it? You

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Speaker 1: buy it because you want the enjoyment of it, you

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Speaker 1: want the association, you know, And I think on that

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Speaker 1: spectrum from one to the other, there are there are

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Speaker 1: different spectrums or different positions for different investors. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's not the sort of thing that that perhaps

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Speaker 1: you or I would do, but there's huge interest around

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Speaker 1: the world from other people.

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Speaker 2: You're going to hold an orc for the players.

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Speaker 1: We want to absolutely The question will be whether if

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Speaker 1: we're going for January twenty seven, is that one of

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Speaker 1: the compromises that we have to make to hit that timeframe.

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Speaker 1: So that's probably one of the areas where question mark

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Speaker 1: and year one, but we would very much want to

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Speaker 1: do so many year two if we had to.

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Speaker 2: What are you going to do because there is a

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Speaker 2: conflict of interest potentially with you being in charge of

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Speaker 2: this and then also on the Sport Integrity Commission.

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Speaker 1: Well interestingly, I mean I've always been really clear with

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Speaker 1: anyone that if we moved from INTEED twenty being a

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Speaker 1: those two. And That's exactly what I had done and

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Speaker 1: will do. And I'm not going to really discuss what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing just yet because I'm just working through it.

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Speaker 1: It's the only confirm this morning, but yeah, I will

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Speaker 1: not do both of us.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Don listen, thank you very much for talking us

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Speaker 2: through it, and good luck with everything. That's Don McKinnon,

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Speaker 2: the n Z twenty Establishment Committee chair. For more from

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