Graves says
Cricket would have ‘died’ without executives’ work‘They saved English cricket last summer during the pandemic’Colin Graves has offered a staunch defence of the £2.1m payment set to be shared by senior executives at the
England and Wales Cricket Board next year, saying the sport would have “died” but for their hard work last summer.
Graves was the ECB chair in 2017 when a five-year “long term incentive plan” was put in place to ensure employees such as Tom Harrison, the chief executive, and Sanjay Patel, then commercial director, were not poached while English cricket embarked on a new direction with the launch of the Hundred.