Are you good enough to work for the ECB?

With the new year fast approaching, thoughts invariably turn to fresh starts and career changes. If you fancy a challenge and own more than one property, why not apply for a job at the ECB? You'd be employed at Lord's alongside some of the game's most popular administrators, but do you have what it takes to fit in at the well-heeled family home of English cricket? Try the specially designed business psychometrics test below to see if you possess the right skills and ethos:

1) You notice one of the clocks in your office has stopped working. Do you…
a) Replace the batteries
b) Replace the batteries with Chris Jordan
c) Stand by the clock. Being right twice a day is a perfectly decent return and you're sure it will start working again by itself soon enough anyway

2) Some younger members of staff ask if they can travel to a few networking seminars in various corners of the world. Do you…
a) Let them go. This exposure to different cultures and strategies can ultimately only help your company in today's fast-moving global business environment
b) Let them go but replace their company cars with seaside donkeys while they're away to teach them a lesson about respecting English summer traditions
c) Get security to compile a dossier on said players, detailing anytime they've used the word "BOOM!" on social media

3) You notice some rude graffiti about your company chairman on the wall of the men's toilet. Do you…
a) Join in the fun by scrawling "...and Texans" underneath
b) Clean it off immediately
c) Ask Graeme Swann to conduct an inquiry into whether the graffiti is just "great banter"

4) Some employees complain that the staff canteen only serves "Big Cheese and quinoa lasagna". Do you…
a) Sack the cook
b) Discipline the employees in question for not executing their gratitude skill set
c) Under no circumstances sack the cook

5) A valued member of the sales staff becomes involved in an ugly confrontation with a rep from an Indian company during a meeting. Do you…
a) Accidentally spill coffee on the CCTV tapes of the incident
b) Appoint Ravi Shastri head of your HR department
c) Sell your entire business to the rep's company in exchange for a bag of crisps and a signed photo of Sunil Gavaskar

6) You catch a member of your marketing team staring out of a window on a beautiful summer's day. Do you…
a) Do nothing
b) Sack the window
c) Drop James Tredwell for being a bit baldy and unassuming

7) Your business gets some bad PR after an ex-employee makes allegations of bullying on Twitter. Do you…
a) Launch a wide-ranging investigation
b) Type "Twitter wiki" into google
c) Brief the Sun's cricket correspondent that the ex-employee in question eats live puppies dipped in jam for supper and wait for the story to appear tomorrow morning

8) You notice your customer numbers have dropped by 64,000. Do you…
a) Put up your prices
b) Put up your prices again
c) Conclude that those abandoning you were the wrong sort of customers anyway

9) Your favourite son is consistently underperforming in his role as leader of the accounts department. Do you…
a) Sack him without mercy. What matters are results, not family
b) Appoint Alex Hales in his place
c) Squeeze Alex Hales into the accounts team alongside your son but make him do all his calculations using some beans and a chalkboard instead of Excel

10) You are informed that 70% of your staff are set to strike over pay and conditions. Do you…
a) Get Ravi to sort it out (see Q5)
b) Show you sympathise with the disgruntled employees by employing Sachithra Senanayake to mankad anyone who tries to cross the picket line
c) Ignore them: 70 is a perfectly acceptable strike rate

How did you score?
Mainly As: The ECB's probably not for you.
Mainly Bs: You've got potential. What school did your father go to?
Mainly Cs: When can you start?