Shane Bond is absolutely right to fight the cartel that is NZ Cricket and the ICC. The ‘loss’ of his talent should be a rude reminder to the NZ Cricket authorities that they have drifted from their mission.
NZ Cricket are there to ensure we have the best cricket team, along with a great state and development program, and ever-increasing participation in the game.
Instead their website is a homage to several sponsors,
and they seem more interested in clothing sponsorships than retaining one of their greatest players:
Right now there are just under 100,000 players and yet just 200,000 match attendees each year. Losing Shane Bond isn’t going to help with either building participation, or with that RFP for clothing.
It’s obvious – there is not need to lose Bond. Let Bond have his very reasonable and ethically pure goal of playing in India only when it does not interfere with NZ commitments. Not only is there no harm in that, but the Indians will be paying Bond money that you can’t.
