Cricket Australia should expect better

When Todd Greenberg moves down to Melbourne to take over as Cricket Australia’s new chief executive in the new year, one of his first calls may well be to AFL boss Andrew Dillon about last night’s Marvel Stadium fiasco.

Players and coaches on both sides of the Big Bash League fixture wondered whether a football game would have been permitted to be played on the patchy outfield, and it was hard to blame them.

The outfield at Marvel Stadium on Monday night for the Big Bash match between the Renegades and Scorchers. Credit: AAP

The stadium is owned and managed by the AFL and is a multipurpose venue; Pearl Jam concerts headlined a raft of events to have fallen between AFL and BBL seasons.

An annual RMIT university graduation was also held at Marvel Stadium last Wednesday, before Monday’s match.

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