It transformed Australian sport. Now the WBBL is a boardroom afterthought

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The loudest voices in Australian cricket are currently shaping the debate on the future of the Big Bash.

Phenomenal windfalls seen around the Indian Premier League and the Hundred in England, combined with increased global jostling for Twenty20 talent and a disrupted market tightening sums available via broadcast rights, have decision makers narrowing in on not whether privatisation is the right path, but rather what form that path should take.

I’ll leave it to others to discuss the merits, and pitfalls, of privatisation, with that topic extensively debated.

Instead, I’m interested in the topic that is barely rating a mention at all.

They’re alive: Melbourne Stars revived after two-week merger saga

Where is the Women’s Big Bash League in all of this?

Reading the coverage and listening to interviews with the sport’s leaders, you could be forgiven for forgetting one of the world’s premier women’s cricket competitions even exists.

Occasionally, the........

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