Mens high performance review report

SEPTEMBER 2022 THE PROCESS Independent Expert Panel: to define the principles behind high performance, which have guided the recommendations of this review Independent data analysis: to objectively understand the game’s performance against the high-performance principles. Broad insights: to gather game-wide insight and experiences, including from: • Players (current and past) & the PCA • Supporters, hearing from over 10,000 fans and members (through surveys by the Cricket Supporters Association and We Are England Supporters • Directors of Cricket, Head Coaches and Science and Medicine Staff • FCC Leadership (including CEOs and Chairs) Consultations: to gather views from, and utilise the skills and experience of leaders in the game. In particular we conducted extensive formal consultation with Chairs, Chief Executives, and Directors of Cricket from every First-Class County, the MCC, National Counties and the PCA. A collaborative process: We established a professional game working group comprising of county, ECB, and PCA representatives, as well as a sub-group of six First-Class County chairs that have met each month to input and advise Between May and September 2022, this review has undertaken a thorough process to reach its final recommendations. We have not considered junior cricket and the county talent pathway, although the link between high performance and these areas of the game is being considered through a separate piece of work This process has culminated with a final set of recommendations, the majority of which are for ECB to decide upon and implement, with those on the domestic structure for the approval of the domestic game. Independent Expert Panel Sir Andrew Strauss (ex-England Captain, Chair of ECB Performance Cricket Committee) Dan Ashworth (Sporting Director, Newcastle United Football Club) Kate Baker (Director of Performance, UK Sport) Sir David Brailsford (Director of Sport, Ineos) Penny Hughes (Chair IQ Student Accommodation, ex chair of Aston Martin and The Gym Group) Daryl Mitchell (Chief Operating Officer, Professional Cricketers’ Association) Marcus North (Director of Cricket, Durham CCC) Simon Timson (Performance Director, Manchester City) ECB Members: Rob Key (Managing Director, England Men’s Cricket), Mo Bobat (England Men’s Cricket Performance Director), Vikram Banerjee (ECB Director of Strategy), Neil Snowball (MD, County Cricket) HIGH-PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF MEN’S CRICKET IN ENGLAND AND WALES 6