Michael Kasprowicz leaves the Cricket Australia Board

Kasprowicz did not return The Herald Approach for a comment on Thursday evening.

The Queenslander’s term in office should end next year, but with several state associations requesting more meaningful representation on the CA board, directors are under pressure to maintain their positions.

Kasprowicz’s departure means that there is no male test player left on the eight-member board.

States and actors have argued with CA about what they believe is the organization’s poor handling of the pandemic and its claims of a money crisis.

Fears about CA’s financial future prompted Jolimont to fire 80 percent of his employees in April with a 20 percent wage. Jolimont cut 40 jobs last month to save $ 40 million on cost-cutting measures that affect national men’s coaching equipment. Around 200 jobs have been lost nationwide in the top country.

CA was forced to turn its financial forecasts back to the players and agreed to return to its rating before COVID, but not before another public spat on the Australian Cricketers’ Association.

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The headquarters also struggled to convince states to cut grants by 25 percent. The revised offer by interim chief Nick Hockley, which limited the cuts to 25 percent, was not well received by the disenfranchised state associations.

Kasprowicz’s home state was one of the loudest critics of the CA board.

“The centralized model or giant that CA has turned into has consumed all aspects of cricket and has assumed the role of master of all cricket affairs,” said Queensland Cricket chairman Chris Simpson, members at a general meeting last year Month.

“The states accept this – while we live and breathe at the base and do daily cricket. The states procure and support the volunteers, the lifeblood of the game and the most valuable asset of cricket. In my opinion, states are in control lost about cricket. We are told from Jolimont Street how to do cricket and we don’t believe in many of these ‘systems and processes’. “

Kasprowicz, a veteran of 38 tests in one of Australia’s most successful periods, became director in 2011 and replaced his fellow countryman Matthew Hayden before the governance model of the board was restructured.