|
April 23, 2006
Posted by Scott Wickstein on 04/23/2006 in International Cricket Council
I read the other day that ICC CEO Malcolm Speed was vigorously defending his new Future Tours Program against criticism. Like many parents, he’s been most protective of his offspring. He made his remarks in context of recent Australian complaints of exhaustion at the end of their recent heavy schedule.
Since the Australian cricketers are labouring under tours scheduled under the old five-year cycle of the Future Tours Program, (FTP) rather then the new one, Mr Speed completely missed the point; rather, the Australian player complaints merely underlined the unsuitability of the old FTP. There were many critics of the old FTP, for many reasons. I was one of them and I outlined them in this blog back in January.
Continue reading "Thoughts on Malcolm Speed"
Comments (3)
January 23, 2006
Posted by Scott Wickstein on 01/23/2006 in International Cricket Council
I was bemused to see ICC CEO Malcolm Speed, of all people, lecture India’s cricket board on its responsibility to cricket the other day. The cause of this lecture was India’s desire to scrap the commercially insane Future Tours Program that the ICC somehow foisted on the cricket world in 2004.
And I was even more bemused to see the normally sensible Michael Atherton accuse the Indian cricket board of being selfish and the ‘big beast’ of international cricket in the Sunday Telegraph. Atherton’s complaints reek of hypocrisy given that the ECB did not exactly give the 2004 Champion’s Trophy the prime time place on England’s cricket schedule.
Continue reading "Let's not be beastly to the Indians."
Comments (1)
|
