\u201cThis hasn\u2019t been an easy decision,\u201d Mills told followers and supporters in March.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NZCPA has been a huge part of my life for more than 25 years, and the experiences, opportunities, challenges, people and relationships I\u2019ve encountered along the way have shaped me profoundly. In many ways, the association feels like a part of who I am as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n
The association is a powerful force in cricket, as evidenced by its support for the new NZ20 T20 domestic league, which will be launched in the 2027\/28 summer.<\/p>\n
Mills\u2019 support of the proposed league saw him and NZ Cricket\u2019s major associations come up against then NZ Cricket chief executive Scott Weenink, who was backing a thorough review of that option alongside three others.<\/p>\n
Weenink eventually stepped down from his own role in December – essentially, he was ousted because of the breakdown in relationships with those parties, and members of his own board.<\/p>\n
At one stage, Porter was being touted as a possible new chief executive of NZ Cricket. <\/p>\n
Porter has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n
Outgoing NZ Cricket Players’ Association chief executive Heath Mills.<\/p>\n
Mills said in March that he would continue in his role as executive chairman of the World Cricketers\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will also be joining a new advisory business, Strata Collective, which will undertake some work in sport. I\u2019m very excited about this next phase.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mills said in his announcement that he had been \u201cincredibly fortunate that the game\u2019s best players have trusted me to serve you in this role\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy life is unquestionably richer for that experience. I\u2019m deeply grateful to all of you who have allowed me to do my best to represent and support you, and I hope I\u2019ve been able to contribute in a way that justifies the trust you placed in me.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the time felt right to move on, and for the association to begin its next chapter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I step back and look at the NZCPA today, it\u2019s remarkable how far the association has come since those early days in 2001, when I had no idea what a players\u2019 association really was.<\/p>\n
\u201cA generation of players have built an organisation with support programmes and services that will care for players long into the future. It has been humbling to see the way you have looked after one another, treated the game with respect, and set ambitions for your organisation. I\u2019ve simply been fortunate to play a small role in helping you achieve them.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour greatest strength has always been your unity \u2014 standing together for one another and for the players who will follow. As the game continues to evolve, never lose sight of those collective values and that sense of togetherness. As our byline says, Players Better Together \u2014 and I believe that will always be true.”<\/p>\n
Editor-at-large Shayne Currie is one of New Zealand\u2019s most experienced senior journalists and media leaders. He has held executive and senior editorial roles at NZME, including managing editor,NZ Heraldeditor andHerald on Sundayeditor and has a small shareholding in NZME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Porter was appointed chief executive of Halo Sport in 2017. The company has almost 60 big names on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25429,696,3110,5195,3937,16558,3938,2082,302,13489,117,111,139,69,10702,17216,1551,2022,213,61,11548,10119,80],"class_list":["post-443774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-announce","tag-announced","tag-association","tag-be","tag-chief","tag-cricket","tag-executive","tag-for","tag-its","tag-leader","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-players","tag-powerful","tag-set","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-voice","tag-within","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443774","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=443774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}