The BBL manipulates us – and we love it

By Malcolm Knox
December 19 2016 - 5:00pm
In the pink for BBL action in summer. Illustration: Simon Letch
In the pink for BBL action in summer. Illustration: Simon Letch

Six years in, I am still unsure whether the Big Bash League is a genius-level cricket innovation, a sleight-of-hand trick of marketing flimflam, the perfect wallpaper for summer evenings, a fluke of Cricket Australia riding its own coat-tails, a competition more important than life or death, a complete waste of time, or all of the above.

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