Posts Tagged "John Howard"

With the Ashes now lost, thoughts turn to the future and where Australian cricket is heading. Cricket in this country is now under severe pressure.

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There was a statement by the ICC on Monday about the match-fixing allegations in the Sydney Test between Australia and Pakistan early this year that puzzled me. According to the ICC. its officers were fully involved in scrutinising this Test, during play and after it was finished, and they came to the conclusion that it [...]

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The political quagmire Australia finds itself in following Saturday’s federal election masks the undisputed result; that Australia is fundamentally a conservative country – and this is evident in its sports as well as its politics.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed New Zealand’s Alan Isaac as its vice-president on Monday.

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Cricket Australia banged its head against a brick wall one last time on Friday by declining to name a replacement for John Howard as ICC vice-presidential nominee.

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New Zealand Cricket (NZC) chief executive Justin Vaughan says it is regrettable that John Howard was ever nominated for the ICC vice-presidency.

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The search for a new head of world cricket took a step backwards Saturday when leading candidate and respected New Zealand administrator John Anderson said he was not available.

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Fears of an Australian-Indian confrontation were reignited again last month after John Howard’s bid for Vice President of International Cricket Council, as an Oceania candidate, got rejected.

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Admonished across the Indian subcontinent as a hawk unsuited to cricket administration, John Howard has made his first attempt at playing the dove.

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The way forward is to have a former Test cricketer to head the ICC. Alex Brown in the Sydney Morning Herald has a perfectly suitable candidate in Mark “Tubby” Taylor. This is an altogether more palatable suggestion, and a stark contrast to the piece by Malcolm Conn in The Australian in support of John Howard.

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Asian and African countries believed to have denied former Australian Prime Minister John Howard the vice president position of the International Cricket Council should reconsider their decision and not base it on political grounds.

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And John Howard thought politics was rough. After being deftly swept aside in a world cricket power play, the former Australian prime minister can be excused for thinking politics is a doddle.

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John Howard’s bid for the ICC presidency remains alive in the minds of Australian administrators, despite his unprecedented rebuff by cricket’s Asian bloc in Singapore on Wednesday.

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Politics a dirty game? Politics all about power? Consider the following quotes from Finance Minister Tanner, speaking with ABC TV on Wednesday: “I am comfortable with the Labor Party making majority decisions about its leadership. It’s a tough game. We all sign up to it knowing that sometimes things are not going to go quite [...]

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The ICC has become a puppet for the Indian politicians and money men, some of them deeply corrupt, with the unprecedented opposition from the Afro-Asian bloc to the nomination of John Howard as its vice-president.

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World cricket’s governing body has insulted Australia by rejecting John Howard’s bid for vice presidency in move which has “gutted” Cricket Australia (CA).

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Former prime minister John Howard appears to have failed in his bid to become president of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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John Howard faces his moment of truth on Wednesday in his bid to be appointed the next vice-president of the International Cricket Council.

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ICC vice-presidential nominee John Howard was due to meet cricket officials in Zimbabwe later on Wednesday in an attempt to ease tensions ahead of next week’s ICC annual conference.

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John Howard is discovering the controversy that often dogged him as Australian prime minister is undermining his potential future as head of the International Cricket Council.

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