Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg has warned of the "peril" of failing to pay Australia's top men's players adequately in the coming years to ward off franchise suitors amid a raft of "uncomfortable" financial cuts in a year CA announced a AUD$11.3 million deficit.

CA held their annual general meeting at their Melbourne headquarters on Thursday to discuss the 2024-25 financial year results with stakeholders from around the country.

Greenberg and CA chair Mike Baird stressed the loss was long forecast, despite last season's Border-Gavaskar series, and will be made up for in 2025-26 with India's men's white-ball tour of Australia and the home Ashes set to make it one of the most profitable years in CA's history.

But there were tensions voiced at the AGM, significantly from

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