ECB Vows To Survive Cut
By Paul Bakel
April 5 2003
The England and Wales Cricket Board assessed their £4million budget cut for 2003 and vowed: "English cricket is strong enough to cope."
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The England and Wales Cricket Board
assessed their £4million budget cut for 2003 and vowed: "English cricket
is strong enough to cope." The cutbacks were sparked by the
International Cricket Council's decision to withhold England's £2.3million
cut of World Cup profits because of their refusal to play in Zimbabwe. The ECB's appeal is being delayed by the ongoing haggling with the
Zimbabwe Cricket Union over the final compensation figure due to the
Africans for the cancelled fixture. Lamb's tightening of the purse strings will hit the sport at every
level from the local amateur teams right up to the England team. But ECB spokesman Andrew Walpole said: "We're a £60million-a-year
business - that's our annual turnover - so it's a significant cut but
something cricket as a business can cope with. "The shortfall will be spread across the different areas of the game
and shared by everyone. "The cuts range right across the spectrum, from the grass-roots through
to first-class cricket and the international side." Outlining the ECB's optimism over their forthcoming appeal against the
ICC's move, Walpole added: "We're facing the shortfall because the ICC
withheld our share of World Cup profits because we didn't fulfil our
fixture in Harare. "However, we intend to challenge their move and feel we have a strong
case, so it may be possible to claw some of that money back. "The ICC are withholding the money pending a legal process which is
ongoing at the moment and likely to take several months."
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