Which is the most professional and pro-active cricket board nowadays in your opinion?

[Nil Dhumrojal]

My serial is

1. Aus
2. Eng
3. SA
4. NZ
5. IND
6. BAN
7. SL,PAK
8. IRE
9. AFG
10. WI,ZIM

What's your opinions ? Discuss with reasons.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

ECB

 

[street cricketer]

Ecb

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

ECB followed by NZC

 

[saeed5646]

from Asia : Bangladesh

From outside Asia : England

 

[Donal Cozzie]

Ireland and Afghanistan should be way higher considering they work theyve done with barely any funding.

 

[Rayyman]

Professional- ECB
Proactive- CSA

 

[Syed1]

If you make a list based on professionalism and you have PCB anywhere above number twenty or thirty then your list is a farce.

 

[Executioner]

BCB is one of the most professional board in the world




But in terms of proactivity it's probably as proactive as Somalian Cricket board and I am not kidding

 

[Rayyman]

BCB is one of the most professional board in the world




But in terms of proactivity it's probably as proactive as Somalian Cricket board and I am not kidding

Yea OP made a mistake combining professional and proactive.

 

[Nil Dhumrojal]

Yea OP made a mistake combining professional and proactive.

That's why bd is so down in the list,else it would be in top four

 

[Bachi]

BCCI is very professional in terms of making money and maintaining decipline inside team.
But BCCI is not proactive becz of politics and ego.
Anyway finally my vote goes to ECB

 

[MMHS]

I think, OP has clubbed 2 different qualities in one package hence, it's difficult to answer.

In very short, I understand professionalism is - doing things in right way, as it should be, &
Pro-active is doing right things as per situation demands in foreseeable future (but not necessarily going by book). But at the same time, we'll have to consider two limitation attached with it - Countries overall administration & financial muscle of the board. Even the best Pro organization can't function properly if PM's drivers' nephew directly contacts with Board Chairman, as the same time I can sketch Taj Mahal in my paint-book; but it won't help if my pocket doesn't have the depth to print that page.

Now, in terms of Professionalism, ECB is ahead by some margin, which is expected actually. British system is the mother of every modern management - be civil administration, military ranks, political culture, sports management. Queen has lost almost everything to Yanks & now to the East as well, but their Management style is still the most polished; BUT might not be most effective, where ECB loses in pro-activeness. I find them extremely rigid, often too much polished & allergic to change management. It took an Aussie to fix Poms ODI team, otherwise we could have still seen Cook & his partner taking the shine off from white ball & a specialist WK batting at 8 - a format they introduced 50 years back first.

In terms of pro-activeness, I think it's a tough call between AUS, NZ & SAF - BCCI as well, but I understand their limitation in any change management. India is big in cricket, which gives BCCI the muscles, but heavy body mass as well to carry. If I am to pick one, I actually will pick ACB (CA) - they introduced many, many innovations in cricket - but at the same time ACB had the maturity to accept changing culture as well. I am sure ECB (TCCB) won't have settled with Packer so smoothly, which itself was a paradime shift of Cricket landscape. SAF, to their credit kept cricket alive for 2 decades & they introduced technology to modern game (In fact, if I am not wrong - Stlenbosch ground had flood light even in late 60s) - but oblate politics has pulled them behind, hence they are losing out.

Among Asian blocks, to everyone's surprise, I believe PCB is lot more pro-active than they are credited. There are several innovative ideas were taken by PCB. In fact, till 90s (more specifically before Jaghmohan Dhalmiah took over BCCI & PCB was Chaired by ad-hoc pros - AH Kardar, Air Marshal Noor Khan, Shahid Rafi, Arif Abbasi, later Gen. Zia ...) PCB did take some excellent initiatives. What I find is their failure of the highest order in terms of execution & management - which is pure lack of professionalism. Even now, probably a year back I argued with lots of posters that the planned changes (after WC 2015 disaster) are just eye wash, as I had seen better plans & programs before - haven't seen anything from Mudassar & his team in this regard. I don't think pro-activeness in any issue with PCB, rather it's about house-keeping, which was exposed by PSL - first time an event by PCB actually impressed me (since WC 1996, when Abbasi was in charge) & so ironic that it was managed by working committee outside PCB.

BCB is extremely professional that I can say, more than most institutions in BD. One of the main reason is that, the organization structure was laid from scratch with external advice, first CEO/MD Maqbool Dhudhia laid the foundation well - but also because of the charismatic leadership of Papon. To his credit, he is highly competent, professional & passionate about his role & his political background helped him to keep vultures away. Pro-activeness is there for sure - BCB has appointed professional coaching set-up, groundsmen, academies, domestic structure, youth investment, school cricket, central contracts at FC level, transition from Club based cricket to Regional FC system ...... but, they are limited with financials as well. In total BCB has 6 or 7 grounds in a country of 170 mn - just one example; still they have installed artificial light in 4/5 grounds, improved the out-field, wicket, stands & now running couple of countywide FC tournaments.

BCCI has done wonders with Indian cricket, considering the size of the country & the population that they are to cover, it's near impossible to function better in that political environment. Also, bigger purse encourages corruption, groupings everywhere. My only complain for BCCI is, with bigger power, it comes bigger responsibility - to the development of the game, BCCI not doing much, at least what they could have done. The role BCCI is now playing, had ECB (TCCB) & CA (ACB) did that in their time, probably after 100 years, we would have been stuck with 2 teams still.

SLCB is the biggest failure to me - not for their management or pro-activeness (in that regard they are quite proficient actually) - and they managed/groomed their cricket by themselves, unlike PCB, for whom without Counties, PAK's history would have been behind SRL/NZ. Biggest failure for SLCB for me is that after 100 years, they couldn't spread the game outside Greater Colombo. For a country of that size, it's incompetence of the highest order that, 90% of SRL is from Moratua to Colombo & may be couple of matches every year at Gale, Kandy (And that polarization is mother of every corruption, nepotism - we suffered the same when whole BD was 5 ton, Dhaka it-self was 4.5 of it) .... May be it has changed now, a bit, but it's such a beautiful country & the Srilankans are such nice, polite but hard working people that you have to be in real bad mood to dislike them - fun loving people with great heart beyond color, race or religion - if only could SLCB launched a FC system with Jafna, Hambantota, Trincomali, Batticola, Puttalam, Anuradhapur ........ in it.

 

[Buffet]

Most proactive is CA
Most professional is ECB

 

[Big Mac]

The Oirish get my vote

 

[Suleiman]

BCB is surprisingly good.