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Cricket Australia (CA) today released its Annual Report for 2022-23. • In the 2022-23 financial year, CA reported a net loss of $16.9 million driven by an expected low point in our revenue cycle with lower media rights and match revenues during a non-Ashes year. • Strategic investment was made in the Big Bash Leagues including significant pay increases and the implementation of the first player drafts to ensure the leagues retained their status among the world’s best T20 competitions in an increasingly competitive global landscape. • CA signed a $1.512 billion seven-year media rights deal with the Foxtel Group and the Seven West Media to broadcast cricket in Australia from 2024-31 and a new seven-year deal with Disney Star for the right to broadcast Australian cricket in India helping to underpin the game’s long-term financial security. • Australian Cricket negotiated a five-year MOU with the Australian Cricketers’ Association that ...

“WIN, LOSE, OR DRAW” – by Des Kelly After watching the 4th Cricket Test, held in Brisbane, recently, I have decided that there has been NO better Test match ever seen, in decades of this game that is so popular around the World. As everyone now knows, India won this superbly fought match, by 3 wickets to claim the Border/Gavaskar trophy and what a match it was !. Now, as the “news”shifts to the inauguration of America’s new President, cricket (and everything else, it seems), slips silently into the rear of the News-Queue, but once President Biden is comfortably settled in the White house, the Media will, once again, come back into “remembering” things like the fact that INDIA won a Test Match against Australia, it wasn’t supposed to win, in a fit, (if nothing else). Well, let’s ...