A game for the sporting bureaucrats
The Courier-Mail’s editorial focuses on Cricket Australia forcing Queensland Cricket to drop a sponsor’s signage or give up international games at the Gabba.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
The Courier-Mail’s editorial focuses on Cricket Australia forcing Queensland Cricket to drop a sponsor’s signage or give up international games at the Gabba.
It seems the game's national administrative body, Cricket Australia, believes our favourite summer sport exists solely at the pleasure of sporting bureaucrats and, more importantly, of major corporate sponsors.
Let's not vilify corporate sponsors themselves. Any number of sports – including cricket – have benefited from large injections of cash and other support from the business world … Instead, it is Cricket Australia which needs to be rebuked. No national sports body has the right to dictate such terms to a state counterpart, least of all over sponsorship vital to a sport's continued prosperity.
For Cricinfo’s coverage of the story go here.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo