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On Tuesday CA boss Todd Greenberg spoke with former player, broadcaster and Cricket NSW board member Stuart Clark about his comments, which he felt were \u201cpersonal\u201d.<\/p>\n
Clark questioned national selector George Bailey and CA head of cricket James Allsopp while commentating for the ABC, believing they were not willing to stand up to Australia\u2019s coach and captain on selection issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cJames Allsopp who runs cricket in Australia, the head of cricket, community cricket, is a grade club cricket coach that throws underarm balls to kids,\u201d Clark said on the ABC.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what his background is. He\u2019s a lovely guy, don\u2019t get me wrong. But he now runs the whole of cricket. He can\u2019t tell (coach) Andrew McDonald or (captain) Steve Smith what to do.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Ben Oliver) runs high-performance cricket, but I\u2019m not really sure what he does now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you have George, who is the chairman of selectors. Does he have the gravitas or the leadership skills to tell Andrew McDonald and Steve Smith or Pat Cummins what to do? He should do, 100 per cent, but I don\u2019t think he does.\u201d<\/p>\n
The role of Smith in Australia\u2019s decision-making was raised after they again snubbed a strike spinner, for the fourth time in six Tests.<\/p>\n
Ashes Icon! Smith scores SCG century | 01:03<\/p>\n
Greenberg told reporters the comments were \u201cout of order\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I see criticism of him (Allsopp), I think it touches on the personal criticism. I thought that was unwarranted,\u201d the CA chief said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was made very clear to me that they were not comments attributed to Cricket NSW. They were comments attributed to Stuart personally.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to get into a war of words with Stuart because I\u2019ve got very high regard for him, but when I think that someone\u2019s got it wrong, I\u2019ll say it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cOn this occasion, I thought he overstepped the mark by talking not just about the decisions, but individually about people. I thought that was personal. I said that to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allsopp was a first-grade wicketkeeper and represented NSW at the under-19 level, and before joining CA was the chief executive of Cricket ACT.<\/p>\n
Aussie selector George Bailey and Stuart Clark in his playing days.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cWe spoke about it cordially. We obviously don\u2019t agree and that\u2019s cool,\u201d Clark said on the ABC about his discussions with Greenberg.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will probably see him later tonight at a function and we will probably have a laugh about it. From my point of view there is no point in having a war of words about this, other than to confirm that I went and found Todd.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not going to get into a public spat with Todd. I have known Todd for 20 odd years. We worked together at the NRL. We are friends. We played golf together. We have done all of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had disagreements. We will continue to have disagreements. We obviously don\u2019t agree (on this).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other think I wanted to say was when they got it right in Adelaide I commended them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are different times and different stages when we have been very complimentary … that has been missed.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
ABC caller and Fox Footy commentator Corbin Middlemas criticised the decision to limit their access.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is extremely disappointing from the fact that people in the regions and people who listen to ABC radio right across the country obviously at this time don\u2019t get the chance to hear from the Australian cricket team,\u201d he said on air.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Australian team is a public good. It is not a private team, not private enterprise. They are the custodians of the game as it sits at the moment and is a team all Australians have a stake in it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket Australia banned the ABC from interviewing an Australian player after day three of the fifth Ashes Test…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-356457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}