Plenty of talk, few answers
ICC have had their annual conference at Lord's this week with David Morgan named as the next president and various other issues being discussed ranging from Zimbabwe to the size of playing areas
Andrew McGlashan
25-Feb-2013
ICC have had their annual conference at Lord's this week with David Morgan named as the next president and various other issues being discussed ranging from Zimbabwe to the size of playing areas. However, in The Sunday Telegraph, Michael Atherton says that for all the talking the basic problem remains: the people who are running the game.
There were some important issues raised this week - none more so than the disgrace that has become cricket in Zimbabwe - but the most fundamental was ignored. Nobody saw fit to raise the question: What sort of governing body do we want to run the game? A small, independent and powerful decision-making group, with the game's best interests at heart and given proper executive control, or one overpopulated, as it is now, with some self-serving and narrow-minded administrators charged with agendas that are equally narrow-minded and self-serving.
Over in the Independent on Sunday, Stephen Brenkley says that although the bank balance looks healthy there isn't much else to smile about in the cricket world.
Zimbabwe may never play Test cricket again. West Indies are in a state of utter disarray. Bangladesh demonstrated again last week that they remain woefully uncompetitive. The recent World Cup, by common consent, was desperate. As was the Champions Trophy, the so-called mini-World Cup, that preceded it.
Andrew McGlashan is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo