As Monty Python’s laborer said of Lord Arthur and the Woman of the Lake, “unusual ladies lying in lakes conveying blades is no reason for an arrangement of government”. All the same, an obscure number of unidentified region managers expediting an arrangement with obscure individuals from the ECB top of the food chain is no real way to run English cricket. As ever with the ECB, the whole cycle is quick and transparent, disconnected from according to people in general. These individuals accept they own cricket, and they see no great explanation to let us know what’s happening.
The ECB’s assertion alludes to a “construction and technique meeting
That’s what we’re educated “different established changes” have been concurred, however not what they are, past the making of another job, ECB President. What is the reasoning for having an ECB President? For what reason is it a smart thought? They haven’t condescended to clear up this for us. Be that as it may, much we can derive. This is a frightful, ignoble arrangement which focuses on vanity and political practicality over the benefit of English cricket, and forecasts sick for Colin Graves’ chairmanship.
It’s a back-room cut up, explicitly intended to serve the individual interests of Clarke, Graves, the regions, and no other person. The understanding reminds us – as though we wanted it – that given the decision, English cricket’s grandees will constantly full for the cesspool of obscure confidential game plans over the detox of legitimate meritocracy and open rivalry. I’m okay, Jack. Take care of me and I’ll scratch yours. Handshakes and high pitches all over.
It likewise underlines, unmistakably, the medieval idea of English cricket
Power is employed in the way of a middle age ruler and his magnates wrangling an over area – the partitioning out of an individual fiefdom. “Give me Kent and Northumberland, and I’ll stay silent”. What’s happened is this. Giles Clarke wished to represent a further term as executive, yet a greater part of the districts spread the word they wouldn’t uphold him (and not before time). A great many people in Clarke’s position would then have done one of two things: taken their risks and represented political race at any rate, or understood the game was up, and resign. In any case, his huge self-importance and self-image wouldn’t allow a noble exit.
Clarke needs to become leader of the ICC, an objective which would have been obstructed had he either lost a political decision or left the stage into haziness. So he proposed a deal to the regions. “Make for me a new position, ECB President, in which I address English cricket universally and swagger all over the planet, glad-handing – and consequently I’ll allow Graves to have a free run at ECB seat”. To their disgrace, the province administrators concurred. Clarke’s grave violations against English cricket merit just disgrace, and the sack. Rather he’s been compensated with the ermine robes of ennoblement.