Post by Bazpan on Feb 5, 2018 23:54:54 GMT
I doubt even Cricket South Africa would argue that their T20 Global fantasy league deserves its own thread just yet. (Hence me posting this here). But they have at least started thinking about it again. This is from Cricinfo's report of their board meeting over the weekend.
www.espn.com/cricket/story/_/id/22298397/cricket-south-africa-consult-further-fate-glt20
"CSA will adopt what it has termed a 'three-tier' approach to deciding on the future of the tournament. The first step will be for a task team ... to 'interrogate the concept' of the T20 Global League ... Once the team have compiled a report, they will hold a workshop with all Member presidents and CEOs and all board members of CSA. Then, the Members' Forum will take a final decision. 'I envisage that the whole process will be completed in a couple of months as there is an obvious urgency to get the matter completed', CSA President Chris Nenzani said".
Nothing says 'obvious urgency' quite so much as talking about setting up a task team to compile a report to be discussed at a workshop before passing the matter on to a forum.
This is as far as CSA have got, four months after the 'postponement' of the inaugural event. And was that ever some monumental screw-up?! I wonder for how long they knew it wasn't a goer before they could bring themselves to admit it, and by how much the losses mounted as a result of their delay in confronting the unpalatable truth. (Ultimately the postponement seems only to have saved them $11m of the $25m they expected to lose by going ahead with the tournament). People like CSA wouldn't take a humiliating decision like that without first running it through a comprehensive series of forums and workshops. These things often start out with some mistakes being too big to own up to, until the terrible realisation dawns that the consequences of the mistake will be so destructive that it would actually be preferable to forgo the short-term comfort of illusory professional dignity.
Anyway it'll be very interesting to see how this plays out. The Cricinfo article says "several employees were tasked with drawing up new business models for the tournament following its postponement, but the last three months appear not to have presented any viable solutions". It doesn't sound very hopeful. Never mind interrogating the concept - at this point I'd be waterboarding the T20 Global League until it gave up all its secrets. And as is said to be frequently the case with acts of torture, it could well be that the concept has no useful information left to give.
Any news on our one? Or in the absence of actual news, any hearsay or conjecture? I wouldn't go so far as to suggest there's trouble in paradise, but last I heard (late last year) the likely host counties and the bystanders seemed to distrust the ECB even more than they did each other.
www.espn.com/cricket/story/_/id/22298397/cricket-south-africa-consult-further-fate-glt20
"CSA will adopt what it has termed a 'three-tier' approach to deciding on the future of the tournament. The first step will be for a task team ... to 'interrogate the concept' of the T20 Global League ... Once the team have compiled a report, they will hold a workshop with all Member presidents and CEOs and all board members of CSA. Then, the Members' Forum will take a final decision. 'I envisage that the whole process will be completed in a couple of months as there is an obvious urgency to get the matter completed', CSA President Chris Nenzani said".
Nothing says 'obvious urgency' quite so much as talking about setting up a task team to compile a report to be discussed at a workshop before passing the matter on to a forum.
This is as far as CSA have got, four months after the 'postponement' of the inaugural event. And was that ever some monumental screw-up?! I wonder for how long they knew it wasn't a goer before they could bring themselves to admit it, and by how much the losses mounted as a result of their delay in confronting the unpalatable truth. (Ultimately the postponement seems only to have saved them $11m of the $25m they expected to lose by going ahead with the tournament). People like CSA wouldn't take a humiliating decision like that without first running it through a comprehensive series of forums and workshops. These things often start out with some mistakes being too big to own up to, until the terrible realisation dawns that the consequences of the mistake will be so destructive that it would actually be preferable to forgo the short-term comfort of illusory professional dignity.
Anyway it'll be very interesting to see how this plays out. The Cricinfo article says "several employees were tasked with drawing up new business models for the tournament following its postponement, but the last three months appear not to have presented any viable solutions". It doesn't sound very hopeful. Never mind interrogating the concept - at this point I'd be waterboarding the T20 Global League until it gave up all its secrets. And as is said to be frequently the case with acts of torture, it could well be that the concept has no useful information left to give.
Any news on our one? Or in the absence of actual news, any hearsay or conjecture? I wouldn't go so far as to suggest there's trouble in paradise, but last I heard (late last year) the likely host counties and the bystanders seemed to distrust the ECB even more than they did each other.
