John Wright has right to be angry
Mark Geenty, writing for Fairfax NZ News , says John Wright stepped in at one of New Zealand Cricket's darkest hours and, in a cruel irony, walks away with the sport plunged back to the abyss of December 2010.
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Mark Geenty, writing for Fairfax NZ News, says John Wright stepped in at one of New Zealand Cricket's darkest hours and, in a cruel irony, walks away with the sport plunged back to the abyss of December 2010.
The former [NZC] chief executive Vaughan trumpeted Buchanan's signing as director of cricket a year ago ... Having finally snared the prized signature of Wright six months earlier, this was an awful message to send. Would Graham Henry or Alex Ferguson suddenly have to answer to a former rival coach installed above them in the pecking order? ... The minute Buchanan took his seat as second-in-command at NZC headquarters in Christchurch, Wright got jumpy. The two get on at a personal level, but are polar opposites with their cricketing philosophies.
David Leggat, writing in the New Zealand Herald, says for the next couple of years, it's Buchanan's way or the highway for those involved with New Zealand cricket.
... From Wright's perspective, if he felt his hands were being tied, his approach compromised by his boss, then he could not continue on that basis. You hope he won't be lost to the game. He is a good cricket man, whose heart, in terms of New Zealand cricket's welfare, is in the right place. You can also be sure that the person who replaces him will be on the same wavelength as Buchanan. For at least the next three years, New Zealand Cricket can't afford it to be any other way.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo