According to cricinfo, Australia will relieve one of its five selectors from his duties. The official reason given is that with the appointment of Cricket Australia's national talent manager, Greg Chappell, to the selectors' committee the number of selectors is now higher than the ideal number of four. There are, you see, at the moment, five selectors. Exactly why Cricket Australia appointed an additional selector in the first place if five is considered one too many is not entirely clear to me.
Our very own jester Hilditch is quoted as saying: 'I think all the selectors have performed really well.' Really? Managing to bring a cricket team from the number 1 Test XI in the world down to the number 5 position is executing your duties 'really well'?! Gosh, I hate to think what would have happened if our Australian selectors had performed badly. Whitewashed by Zimbabwe?!
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I understand the point is to bring in a selector with a full-time "performance management" role. I don't really know how a selection committee opreates, but it seems interesting that introducing a single "professional" selector is meant to make a difference...
I understand the point is to bring in a selector with a full-time "performance management" role. I don't really know how a selection committee opreates, but it seems interesting that introducing a single "professional" selector is meant to make a difference...
I would so love it to be Hilditch himself, but as chairman I imagine he will look after number one.
@ Jonathan
'I understand the point is to bring in a selector with a full-time "performance management" role'
Yes, but that is the role of the new appointee, Greg Chappell, right?! And I think it's a little bit funny that they chose to appoint him first, instead of either appointing one of the 'existing' selectors to this role or relieve themselves of one of them before appointing an additional one if four is such an ideal, holy number.
@ Sidthegnomenator
I would so love it to be all of them. Well, with the possible exception of Greg Chappell, who is, after all, so new that I'm not sure he has had much of an impact on anything just yet.
Doesn't the article state that Hilditich's contract is about to expire after the World Cup 2011 and that therefore, somehow, he won't be the one to get axed?! This time around. I don't know whether this is supposed to imply that there is some tacit agreement between Hilditch and CA that he will serve out his contract, but won't seek to have it renewed or what. Apparently, nobody at CA has balls enough to fire him. Which they should have done. Several times. Or he should have the decency to resign. But as you say, he prefers to look after number one ...
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