{"id":2451,"date":"2010-03-03T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2010-03-03T17:23:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:23:59","slug":"is-this-man-qualified-to-run-world-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/is-this-man-qualified-to-run-world-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this man qualified to run world cricket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/howard-cricket1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full  wp-image-2457\" title=\"howard-cricket\" src=\"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/howard-cricket1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/howard-cricket1.gif 470w, https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/howard-cricket1-300x172.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>The Kiwis are sputting chups this morning about John Howard being put forward for the spot of Deputy President of the International Cricket Council, with the likelihood he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take over the top job in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Will he keep his eye on the ball?Will he keep his eye on the ball?<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Herald this morning lamented: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cricket: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with no cricket experience gets top job.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The paper wondered what \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Australian heavying\u00e2\u20ac\u009d went on behind closed doors to secure Howard over NZC Chairman Sir John Anderson.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On AM this morning the former Prime Minister, now 70, mounted an understated defense of his credentials for the role.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that I have a lack of background in the game,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come to the game as having been a champion player or a previous administrator, but there aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too many champion players and I think most people know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing with my spare time up until now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I would have thought 12 years of diplomatic experience would trump a great batting average when picking someone to steer cricket through its current dramas.<\/p>\n<p>Between terror threats against players, barnies over who makes what cash out of the game and constant battles over coverage and access rights, being ICC President won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be all cucumber sandwiches in the Members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 stand.<\/p>\n<p>It hardly matters that Howard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no Don Bradman does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kiwis are sputting chups this morning about John Howard being put forward for the spot of Deputy President of the International Cricket Council, with the likelihood he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take over the top job in 2012. Will he keep his eye on the ball?Will he keep his eye on the ball? The New Zealand Herald this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[240,239],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket","tag-icc","tag-john-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}