da mrbet： Board chiefs, prime ministers, former executives and journalists have weighed in on John Howard’s rejection as ICC president

da bwin： Cricinfo staff02-Jul-2010″We were single-heartedly behind John Howard. NZC is held up as a model of good governance in terms of having independent directors who do what is best for cricket… but that obviously doesn’t apply to the ICC and that is a shame.”
“I saw John on TV saying he’s going to hold his ground, and I think he should. He really could do the job and he could eat it up for breakfast.”
“John Howard – passionate, passionate cricket fan. I share some of the concerns he’s voiced publicly about the kind of factors that are influencing this decision.”
“In any business model where a company has 75% of the income, it’s not an ideal model. But that is not India’s fault they do that… it’s a powerful bloc but it’s a reality of life.”
“By voting with an anti-colonial bloc instead of upholding the process it helped put in place, India has, once again, abused its power, just as it has by demanding the sacking of umpires and threatening to abandon tours if things did not go its way. In the end, cricket will suffer.”
“The fact is, Sri Lanka oppose Howard because they’ve had a belly-full of their own politicians, Pakistan because they feel strongly that a man with no history of cricket administration has no place in the top job in the game, South Africa because they believe it is hypocritical of an organisation which proclaims to be ‘apolitical’ to have an inherently political animal at its head and Zimbabwe because Howard advocated years ago that Zimbabwe Cricket be thrown onto the scrap heap of boycott and sanction because of the abhorrent behavior of the ruling regime.”
“Howard has been rejected because his strong leadership would have thwarted the ambitions of several administrators to downgrade and devalue the ICC’s role. The ICC board is as political as any political party. The countries that voted him down want a compliant figurehead.”
“A group of 10 cannot afford to be at war with each other, cannot take up strident positions. There must be other ways. Acceptance and cooperation can open the doors to those.”
“The mess is not about politics, or principle, or anything but power. The worst elements at the ICC were scared of Howard and found a reason to stop him before he became strong.”
“If CA and NZC didn’t see this embarrassment coming, they were seriously caught with their pants down.”
“Ultimately in any democratic organisation, there has to be support from the majority but that was not there in his case.”