New Zealand Cricket in sorry state
Respected cricket writer Lynn McConnell, writing on sportal.co.nz , says that New Zealand Cricket is in a mess of its own making.
Martin Williamson
25-Feb-2013
Respected cricket writer Lynn McConnell, writing on sportal.co.nz, says that New Zealand Cricket is in a mess of its own making.
It is all to do with the administration of the game and the leadership style of chief executive Justin Vaughan.
In the years since the radical restructuring of the game that occurred as a result of the Hood Report which was produced in the aftermath of the centenary season, it is clear that morale among the administrative staff of NZC has never been lower.
Already a significant number of staff have left the organisation and an ongoing fiasco over the status of New Zealand team manager Lindsay Crocker is holding the organisation up to ridicule.
McConnell, never one to rock the boat unless it needs rocking, concludes by calling for change.
It is time for some real leadership for emerge in cricket or the game is doomed to suffer potentially irreparable damage, not so much at the upper levels of the game, but in those areas below which are so dependent on public support for their very survival.
The prospect of the fallout from that damage does not bear thinking about, but unless there is drastic change then it will be more than thinking that is required.
Martin Williamson is executive editor of ESPNcricinfo and managing editor of ESPN Digital Media in Europe, the Middle East and Africa