CJ Says Cricket Australia Redundancy Followed $600,000 Deal Probe
CJ says cricket australia made him redundant in May 2026 after he raised internal concerns about contracts-for-mates, undeclared conflicts and procurement shortcuts. He had first warned the board in February 2026, then compiled a forensic report in April before he and 14 others were cut.
CJ’s February 16 warning
CJ joined Cricket Australia four and a half years before May 2026 and said he took a pay cut to do it. He described feeling “so excited” when he told friends and family he was working there, adding: “Everyone who works at cricket does it for the love of the game and to be close to it,”. By February 16, 2026, he said he had started noticing anti-patterns in the way the project work was awarded.
Those concerns centered on undeclared conflicts, bypassed procurement processes and contractors appearing in systems weeks before formal approval. CJ sent his first internal warning to the board in February 2026, then compiled a forensic report in April 2026 as the issue widened beyond a single contract.
April 2026 forensic report
The report moved the story from suspicion to paperwork. CJ’s account says he was tracking how project work was handed out and where the process broke down, while senior oversight roles including Head of Cyber Security and Head of Customer Experience were culled at the exact moment they might have asked difficult questions.
The most pointed figure attached to the dispute is more than a $600,000 cloud deal. CJ says that is the spending trail that exposed the wider problem, not the whole of it. He also says an executive at the centre of the allegations left with Todd Greenberg’s praise for doing a great job.
May 2026 redundancies
In May 2026, CJ was made redundant along with 14 others. That timing put the personnel cut immediately after the internal warnings, the forensic report and the allegations about favouritism and procurement irregularities inside the national body.
The broader friction is hard to miss: Cricket Australia has already had sackings, but the jobs-for-mates scandal is still not going away. For staff inside the organisation, the sequence leaves one clear marker — the people raising questions and the people leaving are now part of the same story.
