Australian Cricket

Cricket Australia, formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket Matches. [1] It is incorporated as an Australian Public Company, limited by guarantee.

Cricket Australia
Image:CricketAustraliaLogo.png
Type Sports administration
Founded 1905
Headquarters Jolimont, Victoria Flag of Australia
Key people Creagh O'Connor (Chairman)
James Sutherland (CEO)
Industry Sports (Cricket)
Operating income ($AU) 72,000,000
Website

Cricket Australia operates all of the Australian national representative cricket sides, including the Australian cricket team, the Australia national women's cricket team and youth sides as well. CA is also responsible for organising and hosting Test tours and One Day Internationals with other nations, and scheduling the home international fixtures.

Cricket Australia is in charge of regional development of cricket in the Pacific region, under the International Cricket Council's development program.
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* 1 Overview
o 1.1 State representative sides
* 2 History
o 2.1 Name changes
* 3 Finances
* 4 Competitions
* 5 Honours
* 6 Principals of Cricket Australia
o 6.1 Chairmen
o 6.2 Secretaries/ Chief Executive Officers
o 6.3 National Selection Panel
o 6.4 Board of Directors
* 7 See also
* 8 External links
* 9 References
* 10 Notes

[edit] Overview

Cricket Australia is an administrative organisation responsible for the promotion, development and organisation of cricket in Australia. Cricket Australia has six member organisations that represent each of the Australian states. These organisations are:

* Cricket New South Wales
* Queensland Cricket
* South Australian Cricket Association
* Tasmanian Cricket Association
* Cricket Victoria
* Western Australian Cricket Association

The Australian Capital Territory Cricket Association and the Northern Territory Cricket Association are non-member associations, although they participate in lower level Cricket Australia tournaments such as the Cricket Australia Cup.

Each of the member organisations elects representatives to the 14 man Cricket Australia Board of Directors, and to the Senior Management Team, which consists of about 60 members of staff. For historical reasons, the states are not represented equally on the board. The membership of the 14 man board is New South Wales (three Directors), Queensland (two Directors), South Australia (three Directors), Tasmania (one Director), Victoria (three Directors),and Western Australia (two Directors). The board develops Cricket Australia's strategic plan, but the plan is implemented by the Senior Management Team and the Chief Executive officer.

Each of the state cricket associations that are members of Cricket Australia also selects a representative side to participate in Australia's major domestic cricket tournaments.

[edit] State representative sides
State Mens side Womens side
New South Wales New South Wales Blues New South Wales Breakers
Queensland Queensland Bulls Queensland Fire
South Australia Southern Redbacks South Australian Scorpions
Tasmania Tasmanian Tigers No womens side
Victoria Victorian Bushrangers Victorian Spirit
Western Australia Western Warriors Western Fury

Cricket Australia's organisational structure is designed to efficiently operate the game, and is divided into separate components focused on specific responsibilities, such as: Cricket Marketing Services, Cricket Operations, Finance and Business Services, Game Development, Legal and Business Affairs, and Public Affairs.

Cricket Australia also maintains a healthy but independent association with the Australian Cricketers' Association in order to provide proper player's rights and welfare requirements.

[edit] History

The first centralised authority for the administration of cricket in Australia was established in 1892 when representatives from the state associations of New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria came together to establish the Australasian Cricket Council, with the Sheffield Shield also established in that year. However the Australasian Cricket Council was disbanded in 1898.

What is now known as Cricket Australia was established in 1905 as the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket.[1] Before its establishment, tours by Australian teams to England were organised and funded by private groups or by the players themselves. Similarly invitations to English teams were made by private promoters or by individual clubs, such as the Melbourne Cricket Club.[citation needed] The predecessor organisation, the Australasian Cricket Council which had existed from 1892 to 1898 but was ineffective due to a lack of funding. Its one lasting action was to establish the Sheffield Shield, the major cricket competition between the Australian colonies.[2]

These early tours were lucrative for the players and promoters and cricket administrators looked to find ways to channel some of this money to the destitute clubs, through the State Associations. Formal discussions began in January 1905 in Sydney for the formation of a body to take control of tours from the players. A draft constitution was discussed by members of the New South Wales, Victoria, South Australian and Queensland associations.[3] The first meeting of the new board was held at Wesley College in Melbourne on 6 May 1905.

The foundation members were the New South Wales Cricket Association and the Victorian Cricket Association. South Australia's delegates refused to join the Board because the Board structure denied the players any representation. The Queensland Cricket Association was represented as an observer only.[1]

Queensland did decide to formally join the association with one delegate member the following year, and the constitution was amended in 1906, so that New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria would each have three permanant representatives, and Queensland one representative. In 1907 Tasmania was also permitted to send a single representative, and Western Australia did likewise in 1913. Changes to this structure were made in 1914 and 1974 respectively, when Queensland and Western Australia formally added to their representation to two each.

[edit] Name changes

Cricket Australia has had three different names since its foundation. They are:

* Australian Board of Control for International Cricket (1905 – 1973)
* Australian Cricket Board (1973 – 2003)
* Cricket Australia (2003 – present)

[edit] Finances

The organisation's revenue was AUD72 million in the year ended 30 June 2005 (AUD 83.8 million to 30 June 2004; this decrease reflects the fact that income streams vary greatly over a four year cycle depending on which teams/competitions Australia plays, rather than long term decline). Just over half of this came from media rights and just over a quarter from sponsorship.

[edit] Competitions

As well as responsibility for Australian international sides, Cricket Australia organises domestic inter-state cricket in Australia, including the three premier competitions in each of the major forms of the game. These are the Pura Cup in first-class cricket, the Ford Ranger One Day Cup, which is the domestic one-day competition, and the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, which is the domestic Twenty20 competition.

Cricket Australia's competitions:

* Pura Cup
* Ford Ranger Cup
* KFC Twenty20 Big Bash
* Cricket Australia Cup
* Women's National Cricket League
* CA Under-19 Cup
* CA Under-17 Cup

[edit] Honours

Cricket Australia also provides awards for various categories of players, including Test Players of the Year, One Day Players of the Year, Bradman Young Players of the Year, State Cricket Players of the Year, Women International Cricket Players of the Year and the Allan Border Medal for the overall best Australian cricket of the year.

Cricket Australia also honours players for exception service to the game of cricket in Australia by annually adding former players of great distinction to the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.

[edit] Principals of Cricket Australia

[edit] Chairmen

* Richard Teece (New South Wales) : 1892-1893
* Richard Best (Victoria): 1893-1895
* Mostyn Evan (South Australia): 1895-1896; 1910-1911
* John Gibson (New South Wales): 1896-1897
* Will Whitridge (South Australia): 1897-1900
* Lawrence Adamson (Victoria): 1905-1906
* Ernie Bean (Victoria): 1906-1907; 1912-1913
* George Barbour (New South Wales): 1907-1908
* George Foxton (Queensland): 1908-1910
* Charles Eady (Tasmania): 1911
* William McElhone (New South Wales): 1911-1912
* James Allen (Queensland): 1913-1914
* Harry Blinman (South Australia): 1914-1919
* Harold Bushby (Tasmania) 1919: 1925-1926
* Harry Gregory (Western Australia): 1919-1920; 1922-1923; 1926-1927
* Harry Rush (Victoria): 1920-1922
* John Hutcheon (Queensland): 1923-1924
* Bernard Scrymgour (South Australia): 1924-1925
* Aubrey Oxlade (New South Wales): 1927-1930; 1933-1936; 1945-1948; 1951-1952
* Dr Allen Robertson (Victoria): 1930-1933; 1936-1945; 1948-1951
* Roy Middleton (South Australia): 1952-1955
* Frank Cush (New South Wales): 1955-1957
* Bill Dowling (Victoria): 1957-1960
* Sir Donald Bradman (South Australia): 1960-1963; 1969-1972
* Ewart Macmillan (New South Wales): 1963-1966
* Bob Parish (Victoria): 1966-1969; 1975-1980
* Tim Caldwell (New South Wales): 1972-1975
* Phil Ridings (South Australia): 1980-1983
* Fred Bennett (New South Wales): 1983-1986
* Malcolm Gray (Victoria): 1986-1989
* Colin Egar (South Australia): 1989-1992
* Alan Crompton (New South Wales): 1992-1995
* Denis Rogers (Tasmania): 1995-2001
* Robert Merriman (Victoria): 2001–2005
* Creagh O'Connor (South Australia): 2005 - present

[edit] Secretaries/ Chief Executive Officers

* John Portus (New South Wales): 1892-1896
* John Creswell (South Australia): 1896-1900
* William McElhone (New South Wales): 1905-1910
* Colin Sinclair (New South Wales): 1910-1911
* Sydney Smith (New South Wales): 1911-1927
* William Jeanes (South Australia): 1927-1954
* Jack Ledward (Victoria): 1954-1960
* Alan Barnes (New South Wales): 1960-1980
* David Richards (Victoria): 1980-1993
* Graham Halbish (Victoria): 1993-1997
* Malcolm Speed (Victoria): 1997-2001
* James Sutherland (Victoria): 2001 - present

[edit] National Selection Panel

The National Selection Panel is the part of Cricket Australia responsible for team selections for each of the Australian national sides in every form of cricket.

Current members are:

* Andrew Hilditch (Chairman)
* David Boon
* Jamie Cox
* Merv Hughes

[edit] Board of Directors

Cricket Australia is governed by 14 Directors appointed by each of the state member associations. The Chief Executive Officer reports to the Board of Directors.

* Chairman: Creagh O'Connor
* Allan Border AO
* Jack Clark
* Wally Edwards
* Daryll Foster OAM
* Dr Harry Harinath
* Tony Harrison
* Robert Horsell
* The Hon Ian McLachlan AO
* Bryan Phelan
* Tony Steele
* Geoff Tamblyn
* Mark Taylor AO
* Peter Warner

[edit] See also

* Australian national cricket team
* Australia national women's cricket team
* Cricket in Australia

[edit] External links

* Cricket Australia web site
* Cricket Feature - Daily Telegraph

[edit] References

* Wisden Cricketers Almanack
* Pollard, Jack (1988). Australian Cricket: The game and the players. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 0 207 15269 1.

[edit] Notes

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1. ^ a b Pollard, p. 57.
2. ^ Pollard, pp. 49–50.
3. ^ Pollard, p. 56.

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