Poor decision-making exposes Clarke
In the Independent , Mark Nicholas feels the call for Giles Clarke’s head is fair enough after the Stanford saga
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
In the Independent, Mark Nicholas feels the call for Giles Clarke’s head is fair enough after the Stanford saga. Political expediency was mentioned as a reason for the sudden tie up with West Indies cricket – votes count at the altar of the ICC – but the truth is that the chairman needed to appease restless England players, who were salivating at the riches available in the IPL and, even more urgently, he needed a trophy.
But he does not appear to have given the game at large the pastoral care it needs. How could the Pietersen/ Moores situation have been allowed to develop in the first place, never mind become so public? Why were the imaginative group of board constituents who drafted a model for an original and potentially lucrative English Premier League, not allowed a hearing?
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo