http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adrian-Roger-Kirshaw-Pierson-c42135 to the principles of good governance - Cricket News Update
Tim May, the former Australian spinner and incumbent Chief Executive of the Federation of International Cricketers’ Association (FICA), has advised the International Cricket Council (ICC) to follow the principles of good governance and show more honesty
and independence in its decision making. However, he has hailed the council’s declaration to review its governance this month.
Illustrating the FICA’s Player Survey 2011, he has revealed that only six percent of International cricketers believe in ICC’s decisions, while the rest consider them to be detrimental to the interests of the global game.
May argues that the world cricket governing body is not independent in making right decisions and implementing them. He opines that bad governance by the council is the major predicament in International cricket.
In a very harsh tone, May has churned out that the ICC lacks a system which can help it elect competitive and visionary administrators.
He said, “Its governance lacks independence, it lacks the perception of being independent, it lacks the ability to elect a healthy and pertinent spread of skills around the board table, and it even lacks the ability to elect members to its major decision-making
committees.”
Like other cricket experts and analysts, May too believes that the council protects interests of the powerful at the expense of the weak.
He told, “Too often, we see decisions made at ICC executive level being perceived as 'not in the interests of the global game', instead being perceived in the interests of the powerful or those who seek to ally themselves with the powerful."
This quote indirectly points figure towards the Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) which, many think, has a great say in most ICC decisions.
However, May has urged the ICC high-ups to undertake its review process fairly and honestly and make its results public so that all the member boards know the overt and covert policies of the body.
He is of the view that only transparency and independent decisions making can restore the trust of the council and perk up the standard of the game at global level.
May played 24 Tests and 47 ODIs for Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 before retiring in 1995.
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