David Boon on front foot as Cricket Australia hands new boss a sticky wicket

Australia’s former No 3 faces one of his biggest tests as he takes the reins as CA interim chair with BBL privatisation only the first task of many David Boon walked on to one of the stickier wickets in Australian sport on Wednesday, after Cricket Australia warned the national pastime faces years of financial losses and a period of “cost minimisation”.

The outlook is grim, and that’s without a glance towards a cricketing world of emboldened match-fixers and upturned by Indian interests, facing an Australian summer that is no longer the country’s own . The moustached…