Healy: Greedy and desperate, BBL privatisation is a shemozzle

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.

Now, when we could sell it down, and it becomes something that could carry the traditional game further forward as well as create newness in the Big Bash, we haven't gotten enough.

We need to carry those games forward for 20-plus years, but the offers that have been created and proposed are insufficient to do that for 10 years. So there's just not enough in the game for the security just yet.

Three states are in, and three states are still out after several attempts of proposing offers.

The current offer doesn't suit one state at all.

It doesn't provide enough security for the future of cricket in the other states, and one has a rushed concept or a less rushed concept that hasn't even been released yet.

Victoria have stirred everyone up, acting prematurely and surely contravening their license agreement.

There is no chance of what Victoria have proposed happening because they haven't had any sort of approval, and that contravention of their shareholders' agreement and license agreements just cannot happen.

Akin to the Brisbane Broncos changing its name, colours and venue without gaining any sort of approval, it just doesn't happen.

Journalists are loving this as well. The news headlines are stumped by the idiocy.

Andrew Jones and Gideon Haigh, some of our best cricket writers, likened it to the Vietnam War, where they raised villages to save them.

Shane Warne, Glenn Maxwell, Meg Lanning, Chris Gayle, Aaron Finch and plenty more have had their deeds flushed away for a brand new club if the Renegades and Stars are disbanded.

And a brand new club, they're going to start with not a lot.

Young cricketers today and Victorian cricketers have no knowledge of a world without the Big Bash, and I doubt they're going to flock to a brand new, clean-skin franchise, let alone find someone willing to pay big overs for it.

This is a league with a healthy broadcast deal, and they've got a per-game eyeball count as good as any sport.

Yet they want to change and merge teams. It seems greedy and desperate to me without asking permission.

Would you agree with that? What do you feel?

And secondly, why are Cricket Australia so broken as to have lost the confidence messaging that they need right now?

They must design more appealing offers to cricket and to the buyers who might be out there. The value of the Big Bash is huge.