Cricket Victoria says the Melbourne Stars are “alive” after a two-week dispute involving a proposed “merger” with the Melbourne Renegades. Cricket Victoria chief executive Nick Cummins confirms an unexpected resolution to the saga, which had raised uncertainty about the Stars’ future and their relationship with the Renegades. The reports describe the controversy as a “merger” process rather than a straightforward operational change, and focus on how the situation escalated and then ended within a tight timeframe. Across the outlets, the central development is Cummins’ confirmation that the Stars are revived, effectively putting an end to the uncertainty created by the earlier merger talks. While the coverage does not provide detailed operational terms in the provided summaries, it consistently frames the outcome as an extraordinary reversal after prolonged speculation. All three sources attribute the confirmation to Cummins and report that the two-week sequence concludes with the Stars continuing rather than being folded into a single entity.