The Australian Cricketers' Association called on Cricket Australia to give its new CEO a "mandate for change to enact the recommendations from the ongoing reviews into the game." Just days before the start of the domestic season, ACA President Greg Dyer "warned the governing body there are no short cuts out of the game's current woes" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 9/12).
Eddie Jones was ordered to pay consultants himself.GETTY IMAGES
England's Rugby World Cup preparations are "being undermined" by the Rugby Football Union's state of "financial turmoil," with Manager Eddie Jones ordered to pay consultants himself -- and forced to intervene to protect England senior team Manager Richard Hill’s job. Amid a "savage" round of enforced redundancies within the RFU, the "fall-out is being felt at senior national-team level." Firm assurances that the cost-cutting measures "would not have any direct impact on the England set-up appear to have been misleading" (London DAILY MAIL, 9/11).
Pakistan PM Imran Khan on Tuesday decided to constitute a task force for the revamping of the country's sports sector. The task force will be headed by Pakistan Cricket Board Chair Ehsan Mani. Khan, while chairing a meeting on sports at the Parliament House, "expressed his annoyance" that despite funds from the government and other national and int'l sources, the sports federations and sports organizations "have failed to deliver" (DAWN, 9/12).
In response to criticism over transparency and other "pressing problems in the sport," South Korea's professional and amateur baseball organizations have agreed to form a new cooperative body. Korea Baseball Organization Commissioner Chung Un-chan said that the KBO and the Korea Baseball Softball Association will establish "KBO-KBSA Council for the Future of Korean Baseball" (YONHAP, 9/12).
