NZ Cricket Players\u2019 Association (NZCPA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"All]()
All of six of the major NZ Cricket associations are supporting a bid for a new privately-funded T20 league. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
However, several senior cricket figures told RNZ while a proposed private Twenty20 franchise league has been a flashpoint for tensions, the crisis runs far deeper.<\/p>\n
According to one source, concern around Weenink\u2019s leadership has been simmering for several months, culminating in a letter sent to the NZ Cricket board on October 16 following a series of meetings between the six major associations.<\/p>\n
In that letter, the major association chairs warned the board that the relationship with the CEO had become \u201cirretrievable\u201d, stating the network had lost \u201crespect, trust and confidence\u201d in Weenink.<\/p>\n
The source said concerns about Weenink were also raised directly with the NZ Cricket board chair Diana Puketapu-Lyndon and later by follow-up letter in July \u2013 well before the concept of NZ20 was first pitched to the national body.<\/p>\n
It is understood the major associations have obtained independent legal representation from high-profile employment lawyer Stephen Langton, who has gone through a process of formally documenting the concerns of each of the regions.<\/p>\n
Asked about the issues raised by the major associations over a period of several months, Boock responded: \u201cNZC wouldn\u2019t comment on that type of speculation.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Martin Snedden, a former CEO of NZ Cricket, was part of a group alleging a “campaign to remove” Weenink as CEO. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
Plea to stop \u2018playing the man\u2019<\/p>\n
While the major associations and NZCPA are keen to divorce the NZ20 from the conversation over Weenink\u2019s leadership, there is a feeling among some in the cricket community that his lack of support for the concept has led to a \u201ccampaign to see the CEO removed\u201d.<\/p>\n
Last week, a group of four NZC life members wrote to the board chairs and directors of the national body, each of the major associations, the NZCPA and the NZ20 establishment committee to express their \u201cdismay\u201d at the damage caused to cricket\u2019s reputation and leadership of the game as a result of the \u201cgrowing dysfunction within New Zealand\u2019s cricket family\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently it appears that the focus on NZ20, and other T20 opportunities, has been somewhat sidelined, as the dysfunction within the NZC board, NZC\u2019s troubles with the MAs and with the NZCPA, and a campaign to see the NZC CEO removed, is publicly laid bare day after day,\u201d said the letter, signed by Sir Richard Hadlee, Lesley Murdoch, Stephen Boock and Martin Snedden.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply saddened by and worried about the resulting damage already impacting cricket\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge all those involved to stop \u2018playing the man\u2019 and, instead, focus solely on \u2018playing the ball\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019s taken some time off to be with his family at the start of the school holidays,\u201d Boock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[806,3500,16558,56266,8559,12514,111,139,69,90,8139,6380,213,103295],"class_list":["post-174212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-as","tag-ceo","tag-cricket","tag-escalates","tag-governance","tag-leave","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-scott","tag-spat","tag-sports","tag-weenink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}