Coronavirus crisis exposes black hole in Cricket Australia's finances | Sam Perry

With the sport’s cash position in disarray, disquiet is brewing among the players and their representative body

In the first weeks of the pandemic, lovers of cricket in Australia might have concealed a little guilt. While the winter codes flailed, it appeared cricket would be spared the immediate hellfire of Covid-19. And whatever your level of financial literacy, or your view of Cricket Australia’s long tail of hawkish administration, just about everybody believed that the organisation was rich.

However, many weeks later, long after Eddie McGuire publicly begged the AFL membership base and rugby league floated NRL Island, Australia’s summer game now appears mired among the winter codes in its financial desperation.

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