Dirty money

Neil Manthorp, in Supercricket, fumes at Cricket Australia's unfair accreditation terms on news agencies covering international games and questions the wisdom of the decision.

But Cricket Australia has now decided that, such is the value of their product, everybody must pay them direct. Uhh? Is Australian cricket really that good? Can we really not live from day to day without paying them? And if they continue to lock out the agencies which have been around for close to a century, will they really be able to control the flow of information out of press conferences concerning the game? I doubt it.