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y least in terms of balancing the needs of red and white ball priorities if you consider poor selection as an issue for the white ball teams particularly the reliance on underperforming veterans rather than trusting the younger players coming through then who outside those selection meetings could say who supported or opposed those picks if key is the most powerful person in that room the final arbiter then it would seem unfair to blame mott or wright for selecting cricketers who seem past their best key s image in the media is still that of a genius he s obviously a good communicator honed through his years as a commentator and he is widely credited for bringing bazball cricket to the test team on the other hand the england men s teams have a losing record in all three formats over the last eighteen months and have just crashed out of two successive world cups where they lost against 75 of the full icc members they faced if he wasn t as popular as he is across the english cricket establishment both within the ecb and the english cricket press he would probably already be gone this level of protection from english journalists is rare and not without limit if england lose in australia this winter typically the graveyard of english coaches and directors of cricket it seems unlikely he will survive no one apart from anything else firing matthew mott and hiring a new coach will cost a lot of money money which the ecb doesn t really want to spend he is halfway through a four year contract there may well be a sentiment within the ecb that it is worth letting everyone involved see their contracts through regardless of results on the field english cricket is increasingly run as a business which prioritises money rather than either a sports team or a governing body so this wouldn t necessarily be a surprise there is also the typical executive avoidance of admitting a mistake if rob key was the person who hired everyone in this post it was richards gould and thompson who hired key and signed off on everyone else if these people collectively failed in their jobs it could be argued that that it is those at the very top who are truly culpable in many ways it seems better for everyone if they just ignore the results and keep everyone in place for another two years after all it s only t20 no one really cares about that in england anyway thanks for reading if you have any comments please leave them below ecb england rob key t20 what went wrong with the ecb s balls mar 24 2024 dannycricket 3 comments the ecb has been encouraging children as young as five to play with their balls over the course of seven years and recently discovered that it may have been illegal to do so there s probably a better way to put that the ecb runs two large junior participation programmes all stars and dynamos cricket both of these schemes offer at least eight one hour sessions of cricket training based on a single centralised format children in either programme also receive their own personal kit which includes a bat stumps t shirt and other accessories clubs have also been encouraged to purchase their own all stars and dynamos branded equipment for their junior sections from an ecb hosted website the ecb announced last week that some items they provided for both all stars and dynamos cricket last year failed a safety check specifically all of the plastic cricket balls as well as batting tees and banners offered to the clubs which were hosting the courses were found to have levels of restricted pthalates above the maximum permitted in the uk it is important to stress that children who attended junior cricket last year or indeed in previous summers are not in immediate danger and this news should not be used to engender panic in children or parents regulations typically set limits on potentially dangerous chemicals far below the point at which they can actually cause harm the ecb have consulted trading standards and the office for product safety and standards neither of whom appear to think that there is a need to recall the items at the same time the ecb has rightly informed clubs and possibly parents of their critical mistake this has the potential to not only devastate the all stars and dynamos programmes but damage junior club cricket across the country many parents will think twice about sending their kids to sports clubs when they might be using equipment which does not meet basic safety standards the ecb s public statements are not helping in this regard for a start there is no ownership of the problem the ecb are the ones who contracted whichever factory made the plastic cricket balls and they are the ones who sold those balls to parents and clubs on the basis that they met the relevant uk safety standards it would seem a basic moral imperative that they should replace any affected equipment free of charge and i would be a little surprised if it wasn t a legal imperative too it would also have helped mollify club administrators many of whom i would guess are furious right now if the ecb had immediately committed to supplying alternative free cricket balls before the start of the season the press release is also confusing when it comes to the issue of the dangers and risks the balls pose to children on one hand the fact that neither trading standards nor the office for product safety and standards appear to believe that the test results merit a mandatory recall would imply that there is no significant danger posed by the chemicals on the other hand the ecb has advised that the plastic balls should no longer be used by either individuals or clubs which makes it seem like the risk may be higher than they are letting on this is either incredibly poor communication or a very inept cover up where did it all go wrong for the ecb the most obvious cause of this fiasco is having the kit produced in a country with different lower safety standards than the uk because it is cheaper it would be virtually impossible for this to occur in a uk or eu factory because the laws in these countries wouldn t allow any products with these plastics to be sold legally by saving some money and cutting corners they are now in a position where they may have to replace every all stars and dynamos ball they have ever sent to a club or kid at their own expense it bears saying that this is actually the second problem that contracting manufacturers on the other side of the world for all stars and dynamos has caused the ecb this year they had already announced a postponement due to experiencing some delays to the usual kit delivery process given recent geopolitical events it is not unlikely that a container ship with the ecb s equipment has been redirected away from the relatively quick route through the suez canal due to increased risk in that region this would not be an issue if it were being made closer to home on paper the plan looks great going with the lowest bidder for making the kit saves everyone money which can be spent elsewhere a just in time logistics setup where the equipment arrives just as kids are due to get their packs in the post means that the ecb don t have to shell out on storage if everything works as expected it is a cheap and elegant method of distributing kit to almost 100 000 children and their clubs if it clearly never crossed anyone s mind at least in a position of power within the ecb that any part of this masterplan could fail but it did and it has left not only the ecb but thousands of amateur cricket clubs in a real hole the situation is vaguely reminiscent of when covid 19 hit english cricket in 2020 the ecb had neither insurance to cover such a calamitous global event nor any reserves to speak of after having used them to bribe the counties to support the hundred in the previous years one issue that consistently dogs the ecb is a critical lack of diversity i don t mean in terms of gender race religion and so on at least in this particular case but of mindset there is a culture within the sport s governing body which seems to actively discourage dissent people in positions of power hire their friends or if they don t apply people with similar backgrounds and viewpoints to themselves experience professional standards and an extensive track record are seen as secondary to being loyal and fitting in the upshot is that the ecb has all of the characteristics of an echo chamber there are no questions raised about potential problems no outside views sought because there is no one in the decision making process who disagrees with what is proposed ecb employees tend to look alike sound alike and think alike no one at the ecb appears to have asked the questions if the deliveries are delayed by a week or two wouldn t that massively harm the hundreds if not thousands of clubs who rely on these programmes to launch their junior cricket season every year or is the reason why the the plastic kit is so cheap because safety has been compromised at the same time there seems to be no sense of individual accountability either this can partly be explained by the homogenous nature of the ecb no individual can be blamed if everyone agreed after all more broadly the simple fact is that club cricket is such a low priority within the organisation that a catastrophic failure leading to dozens or even hundreds of clubs disappearing probably wouldn t be seen as a reason to fire someone who was otherwise liked by their bosses the person currently in charge of the all stars and dynamos programmes is former cricket wales chief executive leshia hawkins she was in fairness only appointed last october which means that it would be unfair to hold her liable for the production issues which were certainly in place before she started her predecessor nick pryde has already left to work for an investment bank in their sports division the response from the ecb after they discovered their mistake which has somehow managed to be simultaneously fearmongering and totally ineffective does fall on hawkins shoulders one of the successes of the all stars programme was that it offered clubs with few members few volunteers and few resources a ready made kit for running a junior section it is more or less the only aspect of club cricket which is well advertised by the ecb with its own website its own social media accounts and a plethora of both physical and digital marketing materials made available to clubs this means that many of the clubs who will be most affected by the delays lack of equipment and negative publicity are the ones which are least able to absorb these blows and the ecb appear from the outside to be doing nothing to help them which brings us to the place we almost always end up in articles about the ecb their failures don t really affect anyone within the organisation as they shrug it off and claim they tried their best but cricket fans across the country end up suffering the consequences it really would be great if we could try something different 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