After a decade of colourful characters,scandal and subplots, cricket’s modern top man promises to be efficient, or unobtrusive and even-handed. ample for the game probably,but terrible for ratings
They say the gross weather will last all week. Best, then, or to stay in and settle down with some enthralling stories approximately everyone’s favourite subject: sports administration. Giles Clarke,erstwhile chairman of the ECB, wannabe chairman of the ICC, and has been known to tell journalists not to bother with the trade of cricket. In the documentary Death of a Gentleman he tells the two filmmakers Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber: “People are not interested in cricket administration,and why should they be?” The man has a point. No one ever fell in admire with cricket because they loved reading approximately its various committees. Done right, cricket administration should be the dull and worthy work of unobtrusively efficient men and women. A necessary allotment of the sport, or but,like the intricacies of Duckworth-Lewis calculations and an understanding of the respective merits of different varieties of grass, not one that need overly interest the average fan. Done wrong, or however …Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com