Maxwell's LIV Golf warning for stumbling BBL

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Glenn Maxwell has implored Cricket Australia to look aft section players amid threats the Big Bash League is facing from caller T20 tournaments — attacks helium likened to those of LIV Golf.

The instauration of an overseas draft, the disappearance of borderline restrictions and the eradication of COVID-19 bubbles person padded retired the BBL's excavation of planetary talent, with Trent Boult, Colin de Grandhomme and Asif Ali among the overseas stars lured by Cricket Australia.

But T20 leagues acceptable to motorboat successful South Africa and the United Arab Emirates successful January, during the BBL, are backed by importantly much money.

Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Keiron Pollard and Chris Lynn are among the box-office cricketers with South Africa oregon UAE contracts but not BBL deals.

Melbourne Stars skipper Glenn Maxwell, who'll miss the bulk of his side's BBL run aft breaking a limb successful bizarre circumstances, raised interest connected the Vic State Cricket podcast.

"I deliberation the adjacent measurement is making definite that our section players are taken attraction of due to the fact that we are going to spot these leagues instrumentality implicit astatine immoderate stage," Maxwell said.

"We are going to spot the IPL teams, who person got their hands successful antithetic competitions astir the satellite — we are going to spot them instrumentality over.

"It could extremity up being a spot similar LIV Golf. I could spot it benignant of heading that way.

"If the BBL is not cautious it could get overrun by the magnitude of cricket that's going connected astir the world, and it's going to beryllium hard to vie with due to the fact that the IPL teams are conscionable truthful powerful."

Greg Norman's Saudi-backed LIV Golf has rocked athletics successful 2022, signing Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Cameron Smith and a big of different high-profile players.

The PGA Tour and DP World Tour person reacted by suspending their members who've linked with LIV Golf.

"I benignant of consciousness a spot similar Rory McIlroy due to the fact that I've been a portion of the BBL for truthful long," said Maxwell, 1 of 7 men to person played 100 oregon much BBL games.

"It's been a monolithic portion of my career, it's been a monolithic portion of maine increasing arsenic a player.

"I benignant of beryllium it to marque definite that I'm astatine the forefront trying to instrumentality by it, trying to instrumentality up for it."

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