POSTED: Saturday February 7th 2009
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ICC President and Chief Executive meet Cricket Australia to start process of stakeholder meetings

ICC President David Morgan and Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat this week met with Cricket Australia (CA) officials

ICC President David Morgan: “We want all our stakeholders to know what we’re doing”
 
“Once we understand each other’s challenges we can start tackling them together for the good of the global game”
 
“It’s about moving away from a perception of ‘them’ and ‘us’ to a culture of ‘we’”
 
ICC President David Morgan and Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat this week met with Cricket Australia (CA) officials in the first of what is planned to be a series of meetings with stakeholders around the world.
 
Taking advantage of being in Australia for the recent ICC Board meeting, the duo flew to Melbourne to present an overview of ICC activities to CA’s Board of Directors and senior management staff and then took questions in a session spanning 90 minutes on Tuesday.
 
Explaining the thinking behind the idea, Mr Morgan said: “What Haroon and I are seeking to do is to establish as close a working relationship with our Members as possible.
 
“One way of doing that is to meet key stakeholders in their own environments, put names to faces on both sides and open a dialogue.
 
“We want all our stakeholders to know what we are doing and why we are doing it and we also want to understand their challenges and be available face-to-face to answer any questions they may have.
 
“Once everyone has a better understanding of our challenges then we can start exploring solutions together. This is the best way for us to tackle those challenges together for the good of the game.
 
“It is a case of moving away from any perception that may exist of a ‘them’ and ‘us’ mentality between the ICC and our Members and instead fostering a culture of ‘we’.
 
“The ICC exists because of our Members and we need to know how we can serve them better.
 
“At the same time our Members need to understand the role we play in sustaining the game through the global events we run which generate significant income for them through broadcast and commercial agreements.
 
“We enjoyed the interaction, it was a thoroughly positive experience and it highlighted the real value in these broad participative discussions.  I’m extremely grateful to CA Chairman Jack Clarke for allowing us the time to come together.
 
“I believe we parted with enhanced knowledge of each other’s issues and how we might work together to deal with them.
 
“Now, as we move around the globe, we’ll be taking the opportunity to schedule further meetings with our Members so that, together, we can ensure our strong sport grows even stronger.”
 
Further meetings between senior ICC officials and Members will be announced in due course.

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