Ian Healy

Download the SEN App Your Home of Sport, In your Hand Yes, cricket’s privatisation is a shemozzle at the moment. If only cricket could convey half of the NRL's unashamed confidence in their game, this private sell-down might be a lot smoother than it's been. Brand, concept, and success benchmarks have exceeded the early intentions of the Big Bash League when it wasn't sold down privately.

I had to dig. I had to do some searching. The reason why Cam Green is not playing for Western Australia against the Queensland Bulls starting today at Allan Border Field. It's for ‘workload and preparation management’. What does that mean? Workload and preparation management. He needs workloads, so you can't get that in a game? It's not a straight injury admission. But jeez, I had to dig low to get to the bottom of this. No-one's come out and said face-to-face to a media pack exactly what it is.

Well, the Cricket Australia challenges are coming in a rush, aren't they? This afternoon sees the next with the Australian women taking on a confident India, who are now at the perfect experience level to break the Australian dominance of two decades. The women have lost their first series at home in nine years, with some head scratchers from selectors and captain in the T20s.