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UPDATE: David Peever resigns as Cricket Australia chairman

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1st November, 2018
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UPDATE: David Peever has officially resigned as chairman of Cricket Australia, with Earl Eddings set to take over as interim chairman.

Original story follows

Multiple news outlets are today reporting that maligned Cricket Australia chairman David Peever is set to resign from his position later today.

Cricket writer at The Australian, Peter Lalor, was the first to break the news. He tweeted just after 3pm (AEDT) that there was “black smoke” coming out of Cricket Australia, with Peever’s resignation potentially having already happened this morning.

Similarly, The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that a meeting is set to take place soon that will see the embattled chairman resign.

The move comes just days after a review into the governing body’s culture labelled it “arrogant”, critising a supposed “win-at-all-costs” attitude that was deemed largely responsible for March’s ball tampering scandal to have eventuated.

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The findings immediately cast doubt on the tenure of Peever who decided to contest for re-election barely a week prior to the release of the findings, only to then claim he accepted “full responsibility” once they’d been made public.

Despite him being re-elected unanimously prior to the release, calls for Peever to resign subsequently came thick and fast, even more so as the chairman defended his position.

Former executives Malcolm Speed and Bob Merriman were some of the most high-profile figures calling for his head, although Peever remained defiant.

“I serve as chairman at the pleasure of the board and I serve as a director at the pleasure of our owners, the states,” he told Channel Nine’s Wide World of Sports.

“Everyone is jumping the gun in terms of wanting to make widespread changes.

“Let’s wait for things to settle down in the coming weeks, see how the dust settles and work out what’s best for the game,” he said.

It was previously understood that, as he had been re-elected at the body’s annual general meeting, his removal would require one state calling for an extraordinary general meeting and two thirds of state delegates voting to have him ousted.

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It is unclear at this stage, however, as to whether this has actually taken place.

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