{"id":400696,"date":"2026-04-28T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400696\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:12:09","slug":"next-nz-cricket-ceo-ex-black-cap-geoff-allott-named-new-chief-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400696\/","title":{"rendered":"Next NZ Cricket CEO: Ex-Black Cap Geoff Allott named new chief executive"},"content":{"rendered":"

A founding board member of the New Zealand Cricket Players Association in 2002, he later served on the Canterbury Cricket board (2011\u20132013) before joining the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) board in 2013 and serving as a director for eight years, before retiring by rotation in 2021.<\/p>\n

He was awarded NZC Life Membership the following year.<\/p>\n

Allott will be NZC\u2019s sixth chief executive, following Chris Doig, Martin Snedden, Justin Vaughan, David White and Scott Weenink, who resigned in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Allott is no stranger to NZC management, having previously held the position of general manager of cricket from 2008 to 2010.<\/p>\n

As an NZC director, Allott played a key support role in Sarah Beamon\u2019s influential 2016 Cricket and Women report and remains a strong advocate for the growth and development of the women\u2019s and girls\u2019 game in New Zealand and internationally.<\/p>\n

He has a deep understanding and appreciation of all facets of the game, from long-form test cricket to white-ball ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is), as well as franchise cricket \u2013 and maintains strong working relationships across the cricketing world.<\/p>\n

Allott said he was genuinely excited and honoured to be returning to NZC, this time as chief executive.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving worn the silver fern as a player, served as general manager of cricket, and contributed for over eight years as a board director, I have a deep connection to this organisation and our game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to working collaboratively with the board, players, staff, member associations and our commercial partners to build strong relationships, foster a positive and constructive culture and deliver outstanding results both on and off the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GeoffGeoff Allott celebrates the wicket of Shane Warne during a pool match at the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

Allott said his focus would be on teamwork and unity across all areas of New Zealand cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy strengthening relationships through all levels of the game here, we can ensure New Zealand cricket remains competitive, sustainable and thriving at every level.\u201d<\/p>\n

NZC chair Diana Puketapu-Lyndon noted Allott was extremely well-credentialled.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeoff brings a rare and highly-relevant combination of attributes to the role: deep cricket expertise as a former New Zealand representative, invaluable experience within NZC as former general manager of cricket and board member, and strong commercial leadership as executive director of his company QualityNZ,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re confident his playing background, institutional knowledge, business acumen, and international outlook make him exceptionally well-placed to lead NZC through the next phase of growth and development.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of the board, I welcome Geoff and wish him every success. We\u2019re confident he\u2019ll be a strong, collaborative leader who will work closely with all stakeholders to deliver an exciting future for New Zealand cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A founding board member of the New Zealand Cricket Players Association in 2002, he later served on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[206795,696,1558,7022,158822,4464,42574,3500,3937,16558,152208,3938,222,2740,115736,10136,117,111,139,1536,69,213,80],"class_list":["post-400696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allott","tag-announced","tag-been","tag-black","tag-bowler","tag-cap","tag-caps","tag-ceo","tag-chief","tag-cricket","tag-exblack","tag-executive","tag-fast","tag-former","tag-geoff","tag-named","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400696","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=400696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}