Pakistan’s interim white-ball head coach Jason Gillespie has taken a dig at Cricket Australia for not promoting the three-match ODI series against Pakistan as opposed to the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India, for which the promotions are in full flow.
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 will be played just after the T20I series against Pakistan. It is quite clear that the Test series against India will bring a lot more revenue which is why Cricket Australia is promoting the series as much as they can.
A large portion of the Indian crowd is likely to be available for the Tests in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and it involves some of the costliest TV rights as well. As a result, the highly anticipated series is getting way more promotion than the ODIs in Pakistan.
While speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald, Jason Gillespie spoke about Pakistan’s historic ODI series victory in Australia. The former Australian quick expressed his surprise at the non-promotion of the ODI series against Pakistan but admitted that the Test series against India is being prioritized.
“To be honest, I pretty much saw no promotion of our one-day series by Cricket Australia, which was a bit of a surprise. It’s pretty obvious that they’re prioritizing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series against India because I saw no promotion of this series,” Gillespie said.
Jason Gillespie lauded the broadcaster Fox Cricket for their great promotions but took a dig at Cricket Australia for prioritizing Border-Gavaskar Trophy over white-ball series with Pakistan.
“Fox do a great job promoting but it was pretty clear to us where CA’s priorities lie. That’s their prerogative and their decision but I just didn’t see any advertising, and promotion of this one-day series at all,” he added.
