Earl Eddings resigns as Cricket Australia chairman

Earl Eddings has resigned as Cricket Australia chairman and stepped down from the board simply 24 hours out from Thursday’s Annual Common Assembly.

Eddings were a director for 13 years and the chairman since 2018 following the resignation of the former chairman David Peever within the wake of the cultural opinions into Cricket Australia following the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa.

Eddings was once going through intense scrutiny in fresh weeks with states divided over his need to serve a 2d time period as chairman with New South Wales and Queensland having already antagonistic him. Eddings believed status down was once in the most productive pursuits of CA.

“It’s been an honour and a privilege as a way to serve the game I really like as a Cricket Australia director,” Eddings mentioned in a commentary. “In that point, and specifically throughout my time as Chair, we now have navigated one of the most recreation’s largest demanding situations, together with rebuilding the believe and recognition of Australian cricket after the Newlands incident and, extra not too long ago, the giant affect of the Covid-19 pandemic on home and world cricket.”

“I’m specifically pleased with our collective efforts to triumph over the demanding situations of Covid-19 to degree a massively a success Indian excursion ultimate summer time and make sure the Ashes can pass forward this summer time. It’s been terrific to be concerned within the expansion of the ladies’s sport lately, from the good fortune of the ICC Ladies’s T20 Global Cup and Ladies’s Giant Bash League to the continuing build up in women taking on our recreation. I’ve additionally been happy to beef up members of the family with the gamers during the Australian Cricketers’ Affiliation (ACA).

“It’s my honest hope that following my resignation the State and Territory associations can unite and paintings in combination in the most productive pursuits of cricket, permitting the point of interest to go back to the game forward of the 2021-22 season.

“I wish to prolong my due to all of those that have labored arduous to reinforce the game, and me in my view, throughout my time period as Chair – my fellow administrators and all of the Cricket Australia crew, the gamers and training personnel, the Australian Cricketers’ Affiliation, the State and Territory cricket associations, our industrial and world companions and each membership member and volunteer who assists in keeping the game thriving in the neighborhood.

“My pastime for the sport is undiminished and I sit up for cheering on our women and men, girls and boys on each degree – from the impending Ashes Assessments to weekend membership cricket – over the approaching summer time and past.”

Present director Richard Freudenstein has been elected because the intervening time chairman and can oversee Thursday’s AGM and can serve for a brief length till a brand new chairman is elected.

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