CA examining latest allegations from whistleblower amid BBL trainwreck

PL on the work "CJ" has done to bring a troubling incident to light

The Big Bash League privatisation attempt is an ongoing train wreck. Carriages continue to derail as the belching locomotive pushes on. The sensible option was to find the emergency brake when three states rejected the idea, but chief executive Todd Greenberg barely paused. Like Casey Jones, he was hell-bent on getting the mail delivered. “The project doesn’t stop,” he said. “We are not pausing; we will look now for some alternate considerations.”

It might have been wise to reconsider and readdress the situation soberly once NSW, Queensland and South Australia left the tracks of this runaway vehicle, but this is an organisation in a hurry. There’s no time to waste, doing nothing is not an option, Greenberg is fond of saying, for a financial, nay existential, crisis is at hand.

Thus, we find ourselves at the scene of another wreck a little further down the line. Monday morning greets us with news that the players are pissed off about signing contracts with franchises that no longer exist. And then there’s the curious partner-swapping coach scenario. States need to be talked out of demanding that their fellow associations be sanctioned.

These things don’t happen in isolation.

They’re informative, and they’re recognisable parts of behaviour patterns at an organisation where the tone is set by the boss, presumably at the behest of the board. Greenberg, at the behest of the board, has been setting off alarms about financial crises, the extent of which depends on who you listen to at the time, but what was a $90m hole a few months back was claimed to be $400m by Victoria last week.

When did the size of a debt become a pissing contest, and what does the current corporate incontinence tell us?

Amidst all the noise, a second and instructive scandal has passed with scant time to examine what went wrong or address the broader problem.

Et Al can reveal Cricket Australia’s whistleblower has presented the organisation with a third set of claims about the conflict of interest scandal over the awarding of over $600,000 in contracts that led to the dismissal of one general manager in late May.