USA board hit by resignation

The internal squabbles that have blighted US cricket for several years resurfaced with the news that Polam Reddy, the chairman of the Southern California Cricket Association, has quit as a director of the USA Cricket Association board.

In an open letter to the board, Reddy revealed that his decision had been prompted by a "lack of communication within the governance of the day to day operations ... especially having a board meeting without an agenda or venue notification two days prior to the meeting date."

He was also angered, as were other senior board officials Cricinfo has spoken to, by a shambles which surrounded the organisation of travel arrangements for an Under-19 national tournament. While it was the responsibility of the USACA secretary, it only emerged on the eve of the event that nothing had been done. That particular mess was only resolved when Gladstone Dainty, the board's chairman, paid the fares himself.

"There is no point in being part of a group or organization that violates proper protocol on a consistent basis," he wrote. "Our positions as directors are clearly uninfluential (sic) in any of these decisions that are being made. As directors we would never allow such irregularities that occur if we were given the appropriate direction."

Cricinfo is aware that other directors are considering their positions in the light of continuing issues with the running of the USACA.