Australian stalwart retires after half-century
Bob Merriman, the former Cricket Australia chairman, retires this month from the Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria boards
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Bob Merriman, the former Cricket Australia chairman, retires this month from the Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria boards. He sat beside Kim Hughes as he tearfully read his famous resignation statement, he toured India with the national team during Kerry Packer's peace settlement and was woken up once in February 2003 to be told Shane Warne had taken a banned diuretic. He talks to Chloe Saltau about cricket past, present and future in The Sydney Morning Herald.
"World cricket needs 10 very strong countries, it needs good governance," Merriman says. "[International Cricket Council chief executive] Malcolm Speed steps down next year. That is going to be a really testing time for world cricket."
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo