DEXTER_REFUSES_TO_RESIGN_28JUL93

Defiant Dexter sits firm in chair - By Richard Bright Ted Dexter, the chairman of the England selectors, yesterday defied calls for his own resignation following the decision by Graham Gooch to stand down as captain. "I'm carrying on until I'm told otherwise," he said. "I make sure I don't hear the criticism. When the chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board picks up the phone and starts bawling me out, then I shall listen. That hasn't happened so far." Mr Dexter, whose term of office ends next March, was given a vote of confidence by the counties towards the end of last winter's disastrous tour of India and Sri Lanka. Since then, however, England's record has not improved. He has been criticised for not standing alongside his departing captain, but said: "I stayed in London on Monday to carry out my adminstrative functions while watching the Test on television." He went on to list a series of telephone calls he had made after Gooch communicated his intention to quit "just before start of play". "I wouldn't have been able to fulfil all these functions if I'd been wandering around a cricket ground," he said. The Daily Telegraph (July 28) Thanks to Vicky on r.s.c.