D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportsalk host on the proposals to restructure international cricket

The World Cricketers' Association has gone upstairs to the DRS in a bid for bilateral series to stay at the scheduling crease.

The players' arm of the sport has interviewed dozens of stakeholders and concluded an annual calendar with assigned windows is required from 2028.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy's here with sport. Hey Darcy, today you can't avoid
politics because sport and politics are colliding with the stadium business.
So they're still in the meeting. What's the latest, what's happening. Yeah,
they're still launching custard pies and savories at each other
across the desk. Always like to be a fly in
a wall at these council meetings. What they actually talk about,

(00:20):
what they achieve, who's asleep, how much gets drunk, who
pays attention. They're still trying to work out if it's
going to be Eden part two point one three point
eight or they're going to go to Than which is
the key park exercise. So they've had the submissions. They're
now thumbing through all of these submissions early doors. It

(00:42):
looks like they're not happy as it was released at
the start of the week with any of them. So
now they're going to thrash it out. Honestly, the Warriors
will win the NRL before we get a new stadium
in Auckland. I just don't see it happen with Titong.
That's where the money's come from. That is one thing

(01:04):
I think that we've been burnt a few times by
private equity silver Lake and also investments from billionaires overseas.
How much can you trust that you got the issue
with Tito of building then over top of train stations,
they've got to look at the land, how long the
lease is for and of course Eden Park accusations there

(01:24):
as well. It's lego. Every couple of years they clip
a new bid on it and they hope for the
best that the advantage of eden Park is there. They've
got a train station turning up and then the city
roill link turns up to be right there and there.
But the piecemeal approach is that satisfactory? How do you
feel about one two three billion dollars being spent on

(01:46):
I just don't see it happening. I don't see the
wherewithal for everyone and Awkland to get it done. Well,
we will wait and see, hope it might come on
my show, might come on your show next year? What's
what's what's on the show? Know? Who have you got
on the show tonight? You know? So we're going to
talk about the resulting meeting through the council. Nothing's happened

(02:07):
with it but to do it. But we will be
joined by Heath Mills He is the chief executive of
the WCA, which is the World Cricketers Association. Are looking
at trying to rebuild the international program, to give it
some relevance and more of a coherent view that people
actually understand, because at the moment it's an absolute mess.

(02:28):
It's a dog's breakfast. No one knows who's running it,
what the matches are all about. So they're proposing one
of the proposals is to have four twenty one day
windows where international cricketers play with relevance, not just pointless
bilateral series. Because the interesting fact out of this Ryan
is that apparently every day, almost every day of the year,

(02:49):
there is a game going on in a T twenty
league somewhere in the world. Too much cricket, creeping death,
too much cricket, Well, we know you think it cricket.
Well no, well yes, yes, frankly, it's boring and there's
too much of it. And you've just proved my point. Darcy.
Thank you. We'll see you tonight. Heaven watch it. You
know you can turn it off if you have to go. Darcy,

(03:09):
see you at seven. OK. For more from Hither Duplessy
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