CHAROTAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY (CHARUSAT)
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (FMS)
INDUKAKA IPCOWALA INSTITUTE OF
MANAGEMENT
(I2IM)

Professional sport industry Australia

Australia men's national cricket team

MBA Programme

Batch 2021-23

Semester – I

NAME – PRAJAPATI VISHAL R

ID NO – 21TMBA130
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 INDEX

PROFESSIONAL SPORT INDUSTRY ............................................................................................ 3

ABOUT......................................................................................................................................... 3
HISTORY OF CRICKET AUSTRALIA ....................................................................................... 4
NAME CHANGES ....................................................................................................................... 4
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.................................................................................................. 5
NAME OF CEO ............................................................................................................................ 5
AUSTRALIA MEN'S NATIONAL CRICKET TEAM ...................................................................... 6
COACHING STAFF : ................................................................................................................... 8
NATIONAL SELECTORS PANEL .............................................................................................. 8
SPORT ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR: CRICKET AUSTRALIA .................................................. 9
ISSUES IN AUSTRALIAN SPORTS ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR .................................... 9
MANAGEMENT ISSUES IDENTIFIED DURING THE CRICKET AUSTRALIA ........................................ 9
DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF THE ISSUES ..................................................................................... 9
PRIORITIES OF THE ISSUES ....................................................................................................... 10
ETHICAL ISSUES IN CRICKET AUSTRALIA TEAM: ........................................................................ 12
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................ 13

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 PROFESSIONAL SPORT INDUSTRY
ABOUT
Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket
Board (ACB), is the governing body for professional and
amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the
'Australian Board of Control for International Cricket'. It is
incorporated as an Australian Public Company, limited by guarantee.
Cricket Australia operates all of the Australian national representative
cricket sides, including the Men's, the Women's and Youth sides. CA
is also responsible for organizing and hosting Test tours and one day
internationals with other nations, and scheduling the home
international fixtures.
Cricket Australia is an administrative organization responsible
for cricket in Australia. Cricket Australia has six member
organizations that represent each of the Australian states. These
organizations are:

 New South Wales – Cricket NSW

 Queensland – Queensland Cricket
 South Australia – South Australian Cricket Association
 Tasmania – Tasmanian Cricket Association
 Victoria – Cricket Victoria
 Western Australia – Western Australian Cricket Association
Cricket ACT and Northern Territory Cricket are non-member
associations, although the ACT participates in Cricket Australia
tournaments such as the Women's National Cricket League and
the Futures League, and previously briefly also competed in the
domestic limited-overs competition.
Cricket Australia is governed by eight independent directors, who
work collectively in the national interest of Australian cricket.The
chief executive officer reports to the board of directors.

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HISTORY OF CRICKET AUSTRALIA
The first centralised authority for the administration of cricket in Australia was
established in 1892 when representatives from the state associations of New
South Wales, South Australia and Victoria came together to establish the
Australasian Cricket Council. However the Australasian Cricket Council was
disbanded in 1898, and what is now known as Cricket Australia was established
in 1905 as the "Australian Board of Control for International Cricket". Before
its establishment, tours by Australian teams to England were organised and
funded by private groups or by the players themselves. Similarly, invitations to
English teams were made by private promoters or by individual clubs, such as
the Melbourne Cricket Club. The predecessor organisation, the Australasian
Cricket Council, had existed from 1892 to 1898 but was ineffective due to a
lack of funding. Its one lasting action was to establish the Sheffield Shield, the
first-class cricket competition between the Australian colonies.
These early tours were lucrative for the players and promoters and cricket
administrators looked to find ways to channel some of this money to the
destitute clubs, through the state associations. Formal discussions began in
January 1905 in Sydney for the formation of a body to take control of tours
from the players. A draft constitution was discussed by members of the New
South Wales, Victoria, South Australian and Queensland associations. The first
meeting of the new board was held at Wesley College in Melbourne on 6 May
1905.
The foundation members were the New South Wales Cricket Association and
the Victorian Cricket Association. South Australia's delegates refused to join the
Board because the Board structure denied the players any representation.
The Queensland Cricket Association was represented as an observer only.
Queensland did decide to formally join the association with one delegate
member the following year, and the constitution was amended in 1906, so that
New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria would each have three
permanent representatives, and Queensland one representative. In 1907
Tasmania was permitted to send a single representative, and Western Australia
did likewise in 1913. Changes to this structure were made in 1914 and 1974
respectively when Queensland and Western Australia formally increased their
representation to two each.

NAME CHANGES
Cricket Australia has had three different names since its foundation.

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NAME YEARS
Australian Board of Control for 1905-1973
International Cricket
Australian Cricket Board 1973-2003
Cricket Australia 2003-PRESENT

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Name Of CEO Years
John Portus 1892-1896
John Creswell 1896-1900
William Mcelhone 1905-1910
Colin Sinclair 1910-1911
Sydney Smith 1911-1927
William Jeanes 1927-1954
Jack Ledward 1954-1960
Alan Barnes 1960–1980
David Richards 1980–1993
Graham Halbish 1993–1997
Malcolm Speed 1997-2001
James Sutherland 2001-2018
Kevin Roberts 2018-2020
Nick Hockley 2020-Present

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 AUSTRALIA MEN'S NATIONAL CRICKET
TEAM

The Australia men's national cricket team represents Australia in

men's international cricket. As the joint oldest team in Test cricket history,
playing in the first ever Test match in 1877,the team also plays One-Day
International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket, participating in
both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season and the first T20I,
against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season,winning both games. The team
draws its players from teams playing in the Australian domestic competitions –
the Sheffield Shield, the Australian domestic limited-overs cricket
tournament and the Big Bash League.

The national team has played 834 test matches to win 394 matches and losing
226 matches, drawing & tying 212 matches.

The team has played 958 ODI matches, winning 581, losing 334, tying 9 and
with 34 ending in a no-result. As of January 2021, Australia is ranked fourth in
the ICC ODI Championship on 111 rating points. Australia is the most
successful team in ODI cricket history, winning more than 60 per cent of their
matches.
The seven match appearances(1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015)
and have won the World Cup a record five times: 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and
2015. Australia is the first (and only) team to appear in four consecutive World
Cup finals (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007), surpassing the old record of three
consecutive World Cup appearances by the West Indies (1975, 1979 and 1983)
and the first and only team to win 3 consecutive World Cups (1999, 2003 and
2007).

The team was undefeated in 34 consecutive World Cup matches until the 2011
Cricket World Cup where Pakistan beat them by 4 wickets in the Group stage

The national team has played 146 Twenty20 International matches, winning 73,
losing 68, tying 2 and with 3 ending in a no-result.] As of January 2021,
Australia is ranked second in the ICC T20I Championship on 272 rating points.
Additionally, the team made the final of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, in
which they lost to England.

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On 12 January 2019, Australia won the first ODI against India at the Sydney
Cricket Ground by 34 runs, to record their 1,000th win in international cricket.

For Test matches, the team wears Cricket Whites, with an

optional sweater or sweater-vest with a green and gold V-neck for use in cold
weather. The sponsor's (currently Alinta for home matches and Qantas for away
matches) logo is displayed on the right side of the chest while the Cricket
Australia emblem is displayed on the left. If the sweater is being worn the
Cricket Australia emblem is displayed under the V-neck and the sponsor's logo
is again displayed on the right side of the chest. The baggy green, the Australian
Test cricket cap, is considered an essential part of the cricketing uniform and as
a symbol of the national team, with new players being presented with one upon
their selection in the team. The cap and the helmet both prominently display the
Australian cricketing coat-of-arms instead of the Cricket Australia emblem. At
the end of 2011, ASICS was named the manufacturer of the whites and limited
over uniforms from Adidas, with the ASICS logo being displayed on the shirt
and pants. Players may choose any manufacturer for their other gear (bat, pads,
shoes, gloves, etc.).

In One Day International (ODI) cricket and Twenty20 International cricket, the
team wears uniforms usually coloured green and gold, the national colours of
Australia. There has been a variety of different styles and layouts used in both
forms of the limited-over’s game, with coloured clothing (sometimes known as
"pyjamas") being introduced for World Series Cricket in the late 1970s. The
Alinta or Qantas logo is prominently displayed on the shirts and other gears.
The current home ODI kit consists of green as the primary colour and gold as
the secondary color. The away kit is the opposite of the home kit with gold as
the primary colour and green as the secondary colour. The home Twenty20 kit
consists of black with the natural colours of Australia, green and gold strips.
However, since Australia beat New Zealand at the MCG in the 2015 Cricket
World Cup wearing the gold uniform, it has also become their primary colour,
with the hats used being called 'floppy gold', formerly known as 'baggy gold', a
limited-overs equivalent to a baggy green. Until the early 2000s and briefly in
early 2020, in ODIs, Australia wore yellow helmets, before using green helmets
as in test matches.

Former suppliers were Asics (1999), ISC (2000–2001), Fila (2002–2003) and
Adidas (2004–2010) among others. Before Travelex, some of the former

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sponsors were Coca-Cola (1993–1998), Fly Emirates (1999) and Carlton &
United Breweries (2000–2001).

COACHING STAFF :
Position Name
Head coach Justin kanger
Senior assistant coach Andrew McDonald
Batting coach Michael Di Venuto, jeff Vaughan

NATIONAL SELECTORS PANEL

Position Name

National selector (Chairman) Trevor Hohns

Head coach Justin Langer

National selector George Bailey

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 SPORT ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR:
CRICKET AUSTRALIA

The study will discuss the different issues with its categorical anatomy and the
effectiveness of those in the cricket team. The different theories and its
application will also be mentioned with respect to the problems. Diagram
depicting workplace deviations is also mentioned in the following study. Some
good ethical approaches to a different section of the cricket will also be
mentioned in the given study. Immediate and future consideration will also be
highlighted in this study.

Issues In Australian Sports Organizational Behavior

management Issues identified during the Cricket australia

Serial Numbers Issues

1 Sandpaper Gate Issue
2 Integrity Issue
3 Staffing Issue
4 Gender, Diversity and Workplace Issue
5 Issues related to the players
6 Interns Issues

Different categories of the issues

Issues Categories
Sandpaper Gate Issue Leadership and management
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 issues
Integrity Issue Cultural issue
Staffing Issue Ethical issue
Gender, Diversity and Workplace
Morale issue
Issue
Issues related to the players Organizational issue
Interns Issues Ethical issue

Priorities of the Issues

Issues Priority
Sandpaper Gate Issue Moderate
Integrity Issue Critical
Staffing Issue Minor
Gender, Diversity and Workplace
Minor
Issue
Issues related to the players Moderate
Interns Issues Critical

Sandpaper Gate Issue

The first identified issue was related to the Sandpaper Gate Phenomenon, which
occurred during the test match series held between Australian Cricket Team and
South African Cricket Team in 2018. The problem aroused when the
international cameras caught the actions of the newcomer to the Australian
Cricket Team, Cameron Bancroft.

The accused aspect was tampering the match ball during the match, which is an
illegal action according to the rules of the cricket council. Apart from that,
Captain Steve Smith and Vice-captain Steve Warner were also accused in this
case.

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In order to mitigate the problem, the Implication of the great man theory is
appropriate. According to this theory, a leader or the captain of a team must fill
with some necessary characteristics like confidence, management skills and
intelligence. This theory is beneficial in giving the proper training to a leader to
become successful in the respective field.

Integrity Issue

He was aware of the previous issue of the cricket board, but after entering and
researching the different files, he found that the illicit substance programs have
been exercising inside the Board. Many members of the Board were engaged in
doping, match-fixing and other activities, which is not ethical with respect to the
rules and regulations of the ICC. Moreover, the distribution of power has been
concerned in the central part of the Board, where the CEO made the decision.
The other active staff, in most of the cases, has opposed the decisions. He
founded that this issue has generated due to the lack of distributional power of
the cricket council (O'Brien, Parent, Ferkins&Gowthorp, 2019).

The social power theory can be implemented in this case as it describes the
division of power among the staff with related fields. This theory has explained
that the power distribution helps in making the right decision by reducing the
working pressure among the staff. The right decision and proper respect can
alter the practices of illegal activities like doping and match-fixing among the
officials.

Staffing Issue:

The staffing issues are considered as a minor issue where the promotional event
is stagnant. It has been seen that some of the millennials have captured the
senior post, and most of the experienced persons are staying in the same post.
The management has not given a promotion to the experienced persons, which
leads to a lack of motivation in the working field. One of the staff has
mentioned the cricket council as "old boys" club as the promotional campaign is
stagnant here, and the capable persons are always overlooked despite the
capacity. Patrick has also seen that the performance meter is not shown in the
annual report. After discovering the staffing issues, he has implemented the
rating system among the staff and which will be published in every annual
report (Wade, 2019). Based on the performance and the experience, the
promotional event will be constructed. The fair decision in the field of

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promotion can motivate the staff, which can mitigate the ethical problems inside
the working area.

Gender, Diversity and Workplace Issue:

The ratio of the male to female staff was 4:1, and it has also been seen that
despite the same qualification, the recruitment of the female staff is less inside
the Cricket council. Moreover, the management responsibilities were not given
to the female staffs, and this kind of gender discrimination has affected the
ethical norms identified during the Cricket Australia case study research. In
order to fulfill the needs of the female candidate, the Workplace Gender
Equality Act has been enacted. This act helps in describing the equality of the
genders inside the workplace (Waite, 2019).

On the other hand, despite the option of work from home facility, a staff coming
back from the maternal leave was not considered to take a work from home
facility though her work is not the front-office job. The lack of flexibility in the
working environment has reduced the morale of the cricket council.

The other issue was the lack of diversification of staff inside the workplace. The
loss of diversified staff has cost the lack of morale in the working environment.
In order to maintain the gender gap, the Gender Pay Gap Theory can be
implemented in this field as it helps in developing the awareness of the
importance of the female staff in the workplace. It has also described that the
female staff are as worthy as the male ones (Casey,Fowlie, Charity,
Harvey&Eime, 2019).

ETHICAL ISSUES IN CRICKET AUSTRALIA TEAM:

Ethics in sports has played a great role in building sportsmanship. The ethics of
sports contains two different aspects, such as gamesmanship as well as
sportsmanship. Gamesmanship refers to winning everything at any cost putting
everything online. The athletes and the officials can bend the rules and
regulation in order to achieve the goals that have been set. Some of the practices
are taking advantage of the opponents and paying less attention to the safety and
regulations of sports 9Brown, Butt&Sarkar, 2019). The major aspects of the
gamesmanships are
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 The main objective is to win everything
 Cheating is considered as cheating when someone is caught
 Finding out of the illegal activity is the responsibility of the referee, not the
responsibility of the players as well as the coaches.

Four key virtues are mentioned in order to maintain the ethics of the sports,
which are mentioned below

 Fairness: The ethics of sports have mentioned the fair play should be the
main goal in sports events. Taking advantage of the ground as well as the
crowded, is considered as the unfair playing in the sports section. The
scarcity of personal integrity and violation is related to against fairness.
The ethics can only be maintained by playing the game with fairness
(Harper, 2019).

 Integrity: Taking advantages through giving fake observations can

decrease the integrity of the sportsmanship. This is considered as a
violation of the sportsmanship.

 Respect: Respect is the basic criteria for sportsmanship. All athletes

should respect the opponent players in order to maintain the sustainability
of the sports (Braham& Small, 2018).

 Responsibility: The responsibility should be taken the coaches, the

captains as any kind of illicit activity are regarded to the management of
the team, and the coach sat on the top of that queue.

REFERENCES

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_Australia
#Background
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_national
_cricket_team

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