Rich Game, Poor Game

GH reports on a report

Could do better

Cricket has never been richer or poorer. Never has it reached so many people; never have the benefits been so concentrated. Never has it been brilliantly run; never has its leadership seemed feebler than today. All of which goes a way to explaining Protecting History, Embracing Change, a new report on global cricket bearing the imprint of the World Cricketers’ Association.

Who initiated the report is not its least important attribute. In a sane world, divining the state of world cricket is what the International Cricket Council would be for. But the ICC is moribund. Its chairman is essentially a political appointee, a bumptious nepo nincompoop. Its solitary independent director left in August, and hasn’t been replaced. Its CEO left in January, and hasn’t been replaced. The rest of the board look like they were embalmed in the 1980s.