Twenty-eight organizations have told the England & Wales Cricket Board they are interested in "forming teams for the inaugural Women's Cricket Super League." The league begins next summer with six teams and will receive a £3M ($4.68M) investment from the ECB over the next four years. The six team hosts are expected to be announced in December (BBC, 8/10). ... Disenchanted Australian Football League club CEOs registered their
disappointment with AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan after his handling of last
week's two-day meeting of the 18 clubs, "telling the league chief he
needed to change his style." The CEOs were unhappy that McLachlan
"failed to consult with their clubs before unveiling a series of major
development projects at the Werribee Park conference," which included the
implementation of club-run multicultural and Indigenous academies and
the prospect of club alignments with the proposed women's national
league. McLachlan resolved at the end of the CEOs meeting that the AFL would
look at "changing its handling of club talks into the future." He
acknowledged the "general disenchantment" but said the AFL had been
"unwilling to detail its big picture plans in writing for fear of them
being revealed to the media" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 8/10).
