A former Rug League chairman and grade cricketer: Meet Todd Greenberg, the man set to be Cricket Australia’s new CEO | Cricket News

While Cricket Australia’s CEO Nick Hockley five-year tenure as Cricket Australia CEO comes to end in March next year, the Australian cricket board is set to unveil former National Rug League Chief Executive Todd Greenberg as its next CEO. According to Sydney Morning Herald, 53-year-old Greenberg will be Cricket Australia’s next CEO after edging out two other candidates after an interview stage run global recruiting firm Spencer Stuart.
Greenberg, a former grade-level cricketer in Sydney, had worked with Cricket New South Wales before making his move to Australia’s National Rug League where he worked first as the chief executive of Canterbury Bulldogs and then became the league’s CEO replacing David Smith in 2016.
During his four-year tenure at National Rug League, Greenberg saw his share of controversies with the first being NRL side Parramatta Eels salary cap scandal which saw the club breaching the NRL Salary Cap for more than five years including breaching the salary cap more than 5,70,000 dollars in 2016 resulting in a 1 million dollars fine Greenberg and stripping the team of 12 points.
The official was also involved earlier with a referring technology The Bunker and it was introduced in NRL with his appointment as chief executive and the Sydney native would defend the decision as reported Fox Sports. He also drew criticism from the conservatives over the NRL decision to book US Rapper Macklemore to perform the anthem ‘Same love’, supporting marriage equality in Australia.
But his biggest challenge came in 2019-202 when Covid-19 meant the NRL season being suspended and broadcaster Nine calling out the CEO for squandering millions of dollars as per Fox Sports. In 2021, Greenberg became the Australian Cricketers’ Association chief and had termed the allegations of player power role in sacking of Australian coach Justin Langar as not true.
“I don’t subscribe to the theme of player power – I haven’t seen that and I certainly don’t feel that in cricket. The players should have a view, and they should be able to provide honest and open feedback. But ultimately we also understand our place. It’s not our decision to make, we’re just part of a bigger set of stakeholders. I know they’ve spoken to a number of our players, which is good, because players should have a view. But ultimately the players don’t make the sole decision on these things. They’re able to provide some feedback and ultimately these are decisions for the CA board,” Greenberg had told Sydney Morning Herald at that time.
Greenberg was also instrumental in getting a MOU for 66 percent increase in payments for professional female cricketers and 26 percent increase for professional players overall with Cricket Australia in 2023.
While Hockley, who was made the interim chief executive of Cricket Australia in June 2020, ran the board for more than four years. His tenure too was not short of controversies with his tenure seeing Langar departure as coach and resignation of then Australian men’s captain Tim Paine after his explicit messages exchange with a Cricket Tasmania became public according to The Guardian.

“The coach transition, and also Tim’s situation, they’ve really been the hardest, because I had such admiration and respect [for them], and also they’ve just been in really difficult situations. The former, we’ve had to make some tough decisions, but then the latter, where someone that you’ve worked really, really closely with is having a difficult time, that’s been the hardest part.” Hockley had told The Guardian in August this year.