The harsh realities of life after cricket

Bevan Griggs, a regular for over ten seasons with the Central Stags, suddenly found himself unwanted and out of a contract at the age of 32. Griggs managed to pick up the pieces and establish a secure corporate career, but his story highlights just how easily and quickly cricketers can find their livelihood threatened, writes Mark Geenty in stuff.co.nz.

It still rankles for Auckland-based Griggs, who cut all ties with CD and barely took an interest in their results last summer. But he wasn't to be hurled on the career scrapheap. He had planned for that eventuality, slightly further down life's track, and took up a fulltime role in the ANZ Bank's commercial section, having decided five years earlier to get a foot in the door with a big company in the cricket off-season.