New direction for Cricket Australia with election of new chairman

David Peever, a Director of Cricket Australia since 2012, has been elected as the new chairman of the national governing body, replacing the retiring Wally Edwards.

Peever becomes the first chairman in Cricket Australia’s history to be elected to the position independent of state interests, taking over the position following Edwards’s four-year term during which the dynamics of Australian cricket altered significantly, including changes to the game’s governance and national financial model.

Peever is a non-executive director of the Melbourne Business School, and a member of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council and the Department of Defence Gender Equality Advisory Board. He is also a director of the Australian Foundation Investment Company.

Commenting on his appointment, Peever stated “this is a key time for Australian cricket. A lot of significant change has occurred for the better on and off the field. But in an ever changing world, I believe we have to work harder than ever before to maintain cricket’s privileged place as the Australia’s traditional summer pastime.

“For me, top of that list is encouraging more people to play the game. That means engaging young people, females and Australians of all of our nation’s diverse cultural backgrounds. I am keen that South Asian and other overseas-born fans who packed Australia’s grounds during the recent World Cup are able to maintain their passion for cricket as part of their adopted Australian lifestyles.”

Meanwhile, Cricket Australia Chief Executive James Sutherland has again defended the use of the controversial pink ball in the face of players’ criticism and is adamant it will prove a success ahead of the sport’s landmark day-night Test match next month.

Australia and New Zealand will face off in the day-night encounter at the Adelaide Oval from 27th November to 1st December, with the game concluding a three-match series for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. The match will be the first in cricket’s longest form to take place partially under floodlights and has been designed as a means to reinvigorate a format that has come under pressure from the competing attractions of one-day internationals and Twenty20 games.

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