Cricket, NRL investigate staffer amid CA redundancies

Cricket Australia is concluding an investigation following whistleblower allegations that a senior staffer, formerly employed by the NRL, commissioned contracts totalling more than $600,000 to a company they were personally associated with.

The whistleblower complaints, seen by this masthead, arrived amid a fresh round of redundancies at CA, with about 20 staff departing the organisation in March and April, after around 15 lost their jobs in July last year.

The staffer has also been investigated by the NRL integrity unit in relation to their former employment at rugby league headquarters.

CA confirmed an independent investigation of the complaints raised by the whistleblower in a statement: “We are aware of the claims and they are currently being independently reviewed.”

The NRL was contacted for comment.

The whistleblower report, first reported by Michael West Media, alleges that in March 2025, the staffer registered a company in NSW and listed themselves as director and shareholder.

Another company was registered in NSW in November 2025. A close associate of the staffer was named as a director. ASIC was informed that this associate resigned as a director and secretary of the initial company on February 16, 2026.

Two days later, on February 18, Cricket Australia made its first purchase order to one of the companies in question. The purchase order as approved by the staffer in question on February 19. The whistleblower alleges that these purchase orders now amount to more than $600,000 in payments.

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