1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Right, official Big Bash is dead. Yesterday in zied C 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: made the decision it wants to move ahead with an 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: in Z twenty and as a result, board member d 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: On Nash resigns. Question now is how quickly they can 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: get this new thing off the ground. Alex Powell, Herald 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: Sports journalists with us this morning Morning Alex, Morning Ryan. 7 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: A good decision for them or the right decision from them? 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I absolutely think it is the right decision 9 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 2: if you go back to the sort of this golden 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 2: era of New Zealand cricket that started in what twenty thirteen, 11 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, that really stemmed from Brenda McCullum and Mike 12 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 2: Kessen's idea that New Zealand needed to be more like 13 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 2: New Zealand and less like Australia. So I mean, in 14 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 2: that sense, I think you couldn't really ask for a 15 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 2: better call than to go on our own rather than 16 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 2: try and join the Big Bash. 17 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: Were you surprised or not surprised to see Dion Nash leaving. 18 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: I had a look at the statement yesterday. I mean 19 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: it's all obviously related. 20 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was sort of known behind the scenes that 21 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: don Nash was the one board member that really was 22 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 2: against in there twenty You know that you think that 23 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 2: you're speaking to Dom Mkin and yesterday he was saying 24 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 2: that they could really have been in a soosition about 25 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: you know, a few months ago, but the board was 26 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: committed to seeing out the whole process after the delete review. 27 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 2: So in that sense, it's not really a surprise to 28 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 2: see on fall and on his sword. If he doesn't 29 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 2: want to know, if it doesn't align with his viz, 30 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 2: then he is well and in his rights the sort 31 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 2: of pulpen. 32 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: What's the story with a female version of Indeed twenty. 33 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: I mean, so the Injied twenty has always been both leagues, 34 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 2: the men's and the women's league. The men's league is 35 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: going to launch first, well, I mean they want to 36 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,199 Speaker 2: launched first in January twenty twenty seven. The women's league 37 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 2: was always going to launch in January or sorry, in 38 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 2: December that year, but worst case scenario, the men will 39 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 2: be January twenty twenty eight. Yeah. Look, the opportunities for 40 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: women in franchise career are so fewer than what they 41 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 2: are in men's You think the men's leagues is about 42 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: of what ten twelve in the world. The woman's there's 43 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 2: about four with the fifth ones launch next month, so 44 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 2: I think it is absolutely vital that the women do 45 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: get the opportunity to have this league at home. 46 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: Alex, can you just paint a picture for me? What 47 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: exactly will the cricket scene look like in New Zealand? 48 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: How different will it be once this competition and this 49 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: leg's up and running. 50 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I think that has been the thing that's 51 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 2: really seen a lot of older fans not get on 52 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: board of it. The way cricket's moving now is just 53 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 2: so fast and so different to anything that we know. 54 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: But this does happen all around the world, So what 55 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 2: it will look like is sort of every January just 56 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,399 Speaker 2: becomes for the man who's blocked off to become a franchise. 57 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 2: Competition and international has played around that, and then that's 58 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 2: sort of November December window for the woman. 59 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: Appreciate your time. Alex POWERHERLD sports journalist with us this morning, 60 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: reacting to the news that the NZCA is going with 61 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: NZ twenty. 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