Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia
Sport Cricket
Jurisdiction National
Founded 1905 (1905)
Affiliation International Cricket Council (ICC)
Headquarters Jolimont, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Chairman David Peever
Other key staff James Sutherland (CEO)
Operating income Increase $99 million (2015 profit)[1]
Official website
www.cricketaustralia.com.au
Australia

Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), 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". It is incorporated as an Australian Public Company, limited by guarantee.[2]

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 programme.

Overview

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

Cricket ACT and Northern Territory Cricket are non-member associations, although the ACT participates in Cricket Australia tournaments such as the Women's National Cricket League and the Futures League, and previously briefly also competed in the domestic limited-overs competition.

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.

Domestic teams, playing national tournaments

  State Men's Side Women's 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 Tasmanian Roar
  Victoria Victorian Bushrangers Victorian Spirit
  Western Australia Western Warriors Western Fury
  Territory Men's Side Women's Side
  Australian Capital Territory Canberra Comets ACT Meteors
  Northern Territory Northern Territory Men's Division Northern Territory Women's Division

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 to provide proper player's rights and welfare requirements.

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".[3] 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. The predecessor organisation, the Australasian Cricket Council, 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.[4]

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.[5] 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.[3]

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 permanent 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 increased their representation to two each.

Name changes

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

Finances

The organisation's revenue was A$146.4 million in the year ended 30 June 2008 ($120.6 million to 30 June 2007). In its annual report, Cricket Australia attributes this increase to additional revenue from media rights.[6]

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 Sheffield Shield in first-class cricket, the Ryobi 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:

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 cricketer of the year.

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

Cricket Australia also run the Under 19 Male and Female National Championships and the Under 17 Male and Female National Championships.

Principals of Cricket Australia

Chairmen

Secretaries/ chief executive Officers

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.

The current four-man panel members are: Rod Marsh (chairman), Darren Lehmann, Mark Waugh and Trevor Hohns.[7]

Board of Directors

Cricket Australia is governed by 14 directors appointed by each of the state member associations as follows:

The chief executive officer reports to the board of directors. The current board members are:

Last update: 28 December 2009

See also

References

  1. ↑ Barrett, Chris; Hogan, Jesse (14 December 2015). "Big Bash League prizemoney tripled but players miss out". Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney). Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  2. ↑ http://search.asic.gov.au/cgi-bin/gns030c?acn=006_089_130&juris=9&hdtext=ACN&srchsrc=1
  3. 1 2 Pollard, p. 57.
  4. ↑ Pollard, pp. 49–50.
  5. ↑ Pollard, p. 56.
  6. ↑ Annual Report 2007–08: Cricket Australia.
  7. ↑ "Rod Marsh replaces John Inverarity as Australian cricket's chairman of selectors". ABC. 2 May 2014.

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