Cricket NSW has put forward a radical expansion proposal to Cricket Australia, which includes playing Big Bash fixtures in Singapore, China and New Zealand.
Under the proposal, the Big Bash season would be extended, with the opening-round being played abroad in a developing market.
Cricket NSW Chief Andrew Jones told Fairfax Media it makes sense to play the early fixtures abroad, as it's difficult to get crowds in early December.
"It's harder to get crowds before Christmas in Australia for obvious reasons, kids are at school and people are busy with end of year stuff," he said.
"If and when Big Bash expands, the first stage of that would be to move to a full home and away season, rather than adding two teams straight away, which would give each team 14 games."
Cricket Australia will review it's expansion possibilities at seasons end, but is believed to be in favour of adding more teams or fixtures rather than playing overseas.
However Jones believes the two ideas could work together and Asia should not be ignored.
"The obvious locations would be Hong Kong, Singapore, possibly China – there's a cricket ground in Guangzhou," he said.
"It's premium quality sport so I think you'd have to develop the market. There isn't a market until you take games there and when you take games there people say 'Wow, maybe this is something we enjoy'."
The Big Bash has enjoyed it's most successful season to date, averaging crowds over 30,000 and massive TV ratings.
