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Pat Howard now working for Cricket Australia

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Rocky Elsom (76)
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A FORMER Australian rugby international has been chosen to spearhead Australia's cricket revival.

Pat Howard will this afternoon be announced as Cricket Australia's new general manager of team performance, a position that was impressed on CA by the Argus review.

At 37 — he turns 38 next month — he is just 13 months older than CA's oldest centrally contracted player, Ricky Ponting.

Advertisement: Story continues below Howard will have a major role in the selection of Australia's next head coach and also the full-time selector.

Both positions will report to Howard, as will national team captains Michael Clarke and Cameron White, team manager Gavin Dovey and Centre of Excellence (COE) head Belinda Clark.

Troy Cooley, Australia's interim coach on the tour of South Africa, will report to Howard in that job capacity but will report to Clark in his role as CEO head coach.

Howard's position was deliberately the first filled among the Argus review's recommendations, as it was believed essential the successful applicant be able to work constructively with both the new coach and chief selector.

According to the Argus plan, Howard will be the "single point of accountability within CA for Australian team performance" and also the "principal spokesman" for the team. Furthermore, he will be required to execute CA's "agreed plans in coach, team leadership, culture and selection".

Howard had a brief spell as the Australian Rugby Union's high-performance manager in 2007-08 but quit because the travel demands were too onerous considering his young family. The new CA role is based in Howard's home town of Brisbane.

In between the ARU and CA, Howard was a senior executive for a Brisbane-based property trust, Cromwell Group.

He played 20 Tests for the Wallabies between 1993 and 1997.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...or-key-role-20111013-1lmcj.html#ixzz1adnI4kEW

If the brief was to get an experienced, intelliegent cricket-outsider who will come in without pre-existing relationships and biases and prepared to make the touch call, then this is a great appointment.

Shall be interesting to watch.
 

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Chilla Wilson (44)
Didn't he have a lot to do with Deans becoming Wallaby coach? Now he's appointed another foreigner for the Cricket side which I'm not crazy about as I think we have some of the best rugby & cricket coaches in the world & we should start rewarding them with the national positions.

I would have preferred Lehman as national coach. It's a real shame the Hookes passed away so tragically he would have made a great national coach.
 
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