Cricket NSW will leave Sydney's east for the first time in its 159-year history and take its headquarters to the west of the city as part of a new Centre of Excellence at Olympic Park.
With the organisation's Moore Park base being suffocated by the new developments at Allianz Stadium, a new $50-million base to open in 2022 was confirmed on Monday.
As part of the deal, Cricket NSW (CNSW) will take its operations and training to an existing site at Homebush for the next three years before the opening, with $30 million to be chipped in by the NSW Government.
"In our 159-year history we have never had a home that we manage and control," CNSW chief executive Andrew Jones said.
"We produce the best male and female cricketers in Australia and they deserve the best facilities, and now we will have them.
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"It will be the best high-performance cricket facility in Australia."
Included will be a gymnasium, recovery centres, a 10-lane indoor centre, 57 practice wickets, a full-size ICC-compliant oval, a junior field and an administration building.
"There have obviously been some issues for cricket lately, but they are one or two-year issues, this is a 100-year success story," Jones said.
"So this will set Cricket NSW up until 2118, so what happened in 2018 won't matter."
CNSW will then set up an extra base in Sydney's west, for Sydney Sixers administration and Big Bash League training.
The move is also a play to help attract talent from Sydney's western heartland, bringing junior academy programs closer to the core population.
"It goes from more than an hour drive for me to 15 minutes," young Blues player Arjun Nair said.
"For me personally I remember I wouldn't used do extra stuff because of peak hour, now I could spend extra time."
Breakers allrounder Naomi Stalenberg added: "Going to the SCG for a long time - pretty much my whole career - I have been travelling an hour-and-a-half in peak hour.
"I grew up and live in Windsor and I used to have to do all my study in the car as a teenager, it did used to impact my schooling a lot."
