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Speaker 1: It's a big move for New Zealand cricket. They're partnering

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Speaker 1: with a new Major League cricket side in the States,

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Speaker 1: competition worth a couple hundred million dollars. They reckon the planners,

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Speaker 1: players and coaches play in this league while remaining available

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Speaker 1: for the national side. The CEO Scott Winner because with

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Speaker 1: us Scott Morning, Good morning, Mike, True North sports ventures,

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Speaker 1: what do we know of them? What sort of confidence

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Speaker 1: do you have that this is a winner?

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Speaker 2: Look, there's always risk involved and these these type of ventures. However,

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Speaker 2: the two major investors are the founders of Willow TV

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Speaker 2: and Major League Cricket, and there's also a number of

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Speaker 2: other high profile investors including the San Francisco forty niners

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Speaker 2: investment in there. So we're really comfortable with the investor group.

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Speaker 1: What do you want to do? Do you want to

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Speaker 1: crack the American market or do you want to save

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Speaker 1: players or both both?

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Speaker 2: Really so, the opportunity that this presents is to diversify

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Speaker 2: our revenue streams into you know, what is the most

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Speaker 2: good global sporting market while also creating opportunities for our

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Speaker 2: high performance staff and also our players. So thereby hopefully

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Speaker 2: you know encouraging our Black Caps and ultimately our White

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Speaker 2: Ferns as well, to stay contracted to New Zealand while

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Speaker 2: taking advantage of these other opportunities to top up their earnings.

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Speaker 1: What do you reckon the chances of cracking the market

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Speaker 1: are and what majors cracking the market look like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so majorly cricket. It has been going for a

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Speaker 2: few years and has already break even. The market in

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Speaker 2: the US is an interesting one because there's around twenty

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Speaker 2: five million South Asian diaspora there. They are all very

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Speaker 2: very well held, so that the market is large. In fact,

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Speaker 2: it's probably the second most lucrative market after India already,

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Speaker 2: so Majorly Cricket has made some great strides there and

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Speaker 2: what we see the opportunity with major ly cricket but

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Speaker 2: also building the New Zealand cricket and our player brand

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Speaker 2: in the US is going to be incredibly helpful.

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Speaker 1: So as a player, do I get paid the same

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Speaker 1: as I would in India or the Caribbean, or in

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Speaker 1: Britain or anywhere else, or do I have to make

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Speaker 1: some sort of compensation knowing that I can get back

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Speaker 1: to the national side.

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Speaker 2: No, So contracting into the MLC will be a separate

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Speaker 2: contracting system, so our players will continue to be paid

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Speaker 2: by New Zealand Cricket, but then on top of that

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Speaker 2: they will be able to be paid separately by these

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Speaker 2: major league franchises and those numbers will be this similar

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Speaker 2: to what other international players such as Pat Cummins and

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Speaker 2: other Australians are receiving. So it's a great opportunity for

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Speaker 2: our players as well.

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Speaker 1: Real interesting, welln Scotton, you have a good weekend. Scott Weeneck,

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Speaker 1: Who's the New Zealand Cricket CEO that starts in twenty

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Speaker 1: seven with potential expansionary plans in twenty thirty one. We'll

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