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Alex Powell: NZ Herald Sports Reporter on NZ Cricket backing NZ20, Dion Nash resigning from the board · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right, official Big Bash is dead. Yesterday in zied C
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  Speaker 1: made the decision it wants to move ahead with an
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  Speaker 1: in Z twenty and as a result, board member d
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  Speaker 1: On Nash resigns. Question now is how quickly they can
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  Speaker 1: get this new thing off the ground. Alex Powell, Herald
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  Speaker 1: Sports journalists with us this morning Morning Alex, Morning Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: A good decision for them or the right decision from them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I absolutely think it is the right decision
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  Speaker 2: if you go back to the sort of this golden
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  Speaker 2: era of New Zealand cricket that started in what twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, that really stemmed from Brenda McCullum and Mike
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  Speaker 2: Kessen's idea that New Zealand needed to be more like
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand and less like Australia. So I mean, in
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  Speaker 2: that sense, I think you couldn't really ask for a
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  Speaker 2: better call than to go on our own rather than
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  Speaker 2: try and join the Big Bash.
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  Speaker 1: Were you surprised or not surprised to see Dion Nash leaving.
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  Speaker 1: I had a look at the statement yesterday. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's all obviously related.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was sort of known behind the scenes that
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  Speaker 2: don Nash was the one board member that really was
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  Speaker 2: against in there twenty You know that you think that
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  Speaker 2: you're speaking to Dom Mkin and yesterday he was saying
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  Speaker 2: that they could really have been in a soosition about
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  Speaker 2: you know, a few months ago, but the board was
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  Speaker 2: committed to seeing out the whole process after the delete review.
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  Speaker 2: So in that sense, it's not really a surprise to
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  Speaker 2: see on fall and on his sword. If he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to know, if it doesn't align with his viz,
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  Speaker 2: then he is well and in his rights the sort
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  Speaker 2: of pulpen.
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  Speaker 1: What's the story with a female version of Indeed twenty.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so the Injied twenty has always been both leagues,
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  Speaker 2: the men's and the women's league. The men's league is
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  Speaker 2: going to launch first, well, I mean they want to
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  Speaker 2: launched first in January twenty twenty seven. The women's league
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  Speaker 2: was always going to launch in January or sorry, in
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  Speaker 2: December that year, but worst case scenario, the men will
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  Speaker 2: be January twenty twenty eight. Yeah. Look, the opportunities for
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  Speaker 2: women in franchise career are so fewer than what they
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  Speaker 2: are in men's You think the men's leagues is about
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  Speaker 2: of what ten twelve in the world. The woman's there's
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  Speaker 2: about four with the fifth ones launch next month, so
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  Speaker 2: I think it is absolutely vital that the women do
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  Speaker 2: get the opportunity to have this league at home.
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  Speaker 1: Alex, can you just paint a picture for me? What
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  Speaker 1: exactly will the cricket scene look like in New Zealand?
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  Speaker 1: How different will it be once this competition and this
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  Speaker 1: leg's up and running.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I think that has been the thing that's
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  Speaker 2: really seen a lot of older fans not get on
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  Speaker 2: board of it. The way cricket's moving now is just
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  Speaker 2: so fast and so different to anything that we know.
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  Speaker 2: But this does happen all around the world, So what
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  Speaker 2: it will look like is sort of every January just
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  Speaker 2: becomes for the man who's blocked off to become a franchise.
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  Speaker 2: Competition and international has played around that, and then that's
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  Speaker 2: sort of November December window for the woman.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate your time. Alex POWERHERLD sports journalist with us this morning,
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  Speaker 1: reacting to the news that the NZCA is going with
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