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Brydon Coverdale
October 13, 2011
Pat Howard has conceded he will have to earn the respect of Australia's players and coaches after being brought in from outside the game to become Cricket Australia's new head of high performance. A former rugby international, Howard, 37, has been handed the powerful job of general manager of team performance, a newly-created role recommended by the Argus review and a position in which Australia's captain, head coach and full-time selector will report to him.
A Wallabies player who represented Australia in 20 Tests during the 1990s, Howard beat several candidates with strong cricket backgrounds to win the new position, in which he will play a key part in appointing Tim Nielsen's replacement as head coach as well as the new selection panel. Howard said while he would join Cricket Australia with a clean slate and fresh ideas, willing to "ask those dumb questions" about why things are the way they are, he could not take his new authority for granted.
"Leadership and management of all forms," Howard said after the meeting on Thursday. "Make sure you understand the group and the group mentality. I have to get my head around the culture of cricket and personalities involved. This is a process in time. No matter what your title is, you have to earn respect and that takes time, I will not give everything you have to win -.. "
Howard has presented at the Cricket Australia headquarters in Melbourne, where he showed such confidence and balance waiting for a man who played the sport at the highest level, and forged a successful career off the field. To explain why Howard would be a key figure around which the reconstruction process would begin in Australia, Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland has shown its strong experience in various fields, including his time as CEO of high-performance unit ' Australian Rugby Union.
"His credentials are very, very strong, even though the sport in mind, rugby," said Sutherland. "It 'important to note however, that he played at the highest level, which he coached, was a national selector -.. he knows and understands high-performance E' was General Manager of the role of high-performance, along with everything else, He brings a lot of other identifying information, is very interesting.
"And 'pharmacist by profession, originally, and that lends itself to something very important for high performance sports, sports medicine, a part of the performance. In addition to this, recently had a career in industry and expanded its offer, and gave him a very attractive candidate. "
Howard will assume his new role in mid-November, giving you time to finish his current position as Director of Operations Cromwell Property Group, and hopes to squeeze in a trip to South Africa to meet with the team in Australia in the current series, which begins with a Twenty20 on Thursday. He will be based at the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane and will work closely with the heads of state cricket in the country in an effort to coordinate the development of national players.
Appointment of Howard means Australia can now begin to develop the search for a new coach, the expanded role, which is controlled by a strategy of elite cricket coach for the whole country, as well as a full-time national selection and two part-time independent selectors. For these sites, like Howard, had recommended the review Argus, which he believes was a "turning point", the Australian cricket.
"The review Argus is a fantastic platform to build from, being able to dissect, at all levels, at all levels to participate," said John Howard. "The fact that Australia is not on the it means that there are some real head, I think. Mandate for change and growth is not always possible when you're No. 1. ARGUS survey was a great turning point, and I think it has a high opportunity.
"One of the things rugby and cricket, which is similar is that the fate of the game rely heavily on the performance of the national team. Other sports can rely on national and domestic livestock losses. Cricket and rugby can not. The Wallabies need to win the Australia test team needs to win both the Australian public will not accept anything less, so it's a great challenge "..
After a decade of domination that led to the retreat, the champion players like Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, Australia has slipped to fifth place in the ICC test, although they have risen to fourth place after the victory of the series last month in Sri Lanka. Although Howard brief is to oversee the resurgence of Australian cricket, other areas such as management of the competition, referees will be programming, anti-corruption, security, logistics and industrial relations team is the kingdom of Michael Brown, CEO of Cricket Australia's operations.
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