South African cricket’s plummet towards its current predicament of domestic mistrust and global insouciance suggests strongly that the wrong people have been in charge for too long, or that the ‘right’ people have been in charge for the wrong reasons.
Once again Manners, you display a deep understanding of the issues in SA Cricket. People like Dave Richardson, Mtutuzeli Nyoka and Norman Arendse need to be persuaded to make themselves available. And Jacques Faul should be permanently appointed as CEO. He's had 2 stints as a temporary CEO and worked out of the position because of his honesty and integrity, which never sat well with certain Board Members.
Independent board members are not the panacea people think they are.
I see the Board's role as being the watchdog for what the paid employees are doing, and to set and review strategy for the game - not the business (that's the CEO's job). Hence I believe the Board do need to be (at least in large majority) cricket people. Then your paid staff has to be a mix of corporates and cricket people.
My understanding of Australia's experience with independents on the Board has been that they have been mostly useless, just hitching their ride to whatever corporate bandwagon happens to be in vogue. But then you get the odd opposite issue - someone like David Peever who becomes interfering and controlling. His strategy and execution plan for the Player's Pay dispute was simply disastrous, bringing in his union-busting henchman to try and break-up the Players Association! A true cricket person would never treat professional cricketers like mine workers, but a former mining CEO would, and did!
Once again Manners, you display a deep understanding of the issues in SA Cricket. People like Dave Richardson, Mtutuzeli Nyoka and Norman Arendse need to be persuaded to make themselves available. And Jacques Faul should be permanently appointed as CEO. He's had 2 stints as a temporary CEO and worked out of the position because of his honesty and integrity, which never sat well with certain Board Members.
Independent board members are not the panacea people think they are.
I see the Board's role as being the watchdog for what the paid employees are doing, and to set and review strategy for the game - not the business (that's the CEO's job). Hence I believe the Board do need to be (at least in large majority) cricket people. Then your paid staff has to be a mix of corporates and cricket people.
My understanding of Australia's experience with independents on the Board has been that they have been mostly useless, just hitching their ride to whatever corporate bandwagon happens to be in vogue. But then you get the odd opposite issue - someone like David Peever who becomes interfering and controlling. His strategy and execution plan for the Player's Pay dispute was simply disastrous, bringing in his union-busting henchman to try and break-up the Players Association! A true cricket person would never treat professional cricketers like mine workers, but a former mining CEO would, and did!
Insouciance?
I think you've been reading too much Gideon Haigh!
Nicholson report over 10 yrs zippo sad indictment of who is in and who is out !!!
Hi Neil. Well said. Is Dave Richardson out of cricket totally? Just asking. Cheers.