A cricket-loving geneticist from Otago and a double international from Auckland – these are the two new additions to the board of New Zealand Cricket following its annual general meeting today.
Anna Campbell, a geneticist and the Managing Director of AbacusBio, and former WHITE FERN and Football Fern Rebecca Rolls, were elected to the Board during NZC’s first-ever AGM-by-Zoom conference today.
The two new directors replace outgoing board members Liz Dawson and Don Mackinnon on the eight-strong board, with Diana Puketapu re-elected for a further term.
Ms Campbell has been heavily involved in community cricket, in which she has three children playing, and was formerly on the board of the Otago Cricket Association.
She also holds governance roles on the boards of Otago Innovation (the University of Otago commercialisation arm), Genomics Aotearoa, and Otago Boys High School.
Ms Rolls, formerly a member of the WHITE FERNS side which won the World Cup in 2000, also played for the Football Ferns at the London and Rio Olympics and has had a long career in the public service, holding a number of senior leadership roles.
The meeting heard NZC’s budgeted loss for the year of $2.4m had been turned into a surplus of $1.5m, partly due to a significant reduction in activity because of the onset of COVID-19, along with widespread operational savings across the organisation.
Chief executive David White said NZC had continued to perform well, financially; focussing only on those activities critical to the sustainability of cricket: maintaining support to the cricket community, maintaining team performance, and meeting commercial obligations.
“It was important to close out the year strongly because we understand we will be impacted by the additional costs linked to the pandemic; costs that have been unavoidable if we are to continue delivering international cricket in today’s environment”.
Photo credit: Linkedin profile photo of David White
Mr White said this impact was reflected in the budgeted $3.5m loss for the 2020-21 year.
The other main item on the agenda was an amendment to the NZC constitution to strengthen NZC’s position in relation to anti-doping requirements, and to ensure the organisation’s stance is in line with governance best practice.
The recommendation was adopted unanimously.
Greg Barclay was returned as chairman at the new board’s first meeting immediately following the AGM formalities.
NZC Board: Greg Barclay (chair), Geoff Allott, Anna Campbell, Jackie Lloyd, Kevin Malloy, Diana Puketapu, Rebecca Rolls, Martin Snedden.
NZC President: Debbie Hockley.
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The New Zealand national cricket team, known as the Black Caps, made their Test debut in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth nation to play Test cricket. After waiting 26 years for their first Test win against the West Indies in 1956, they also played their first ODI in 1972–73 against Pakistan. New Zealand are the inaugural World Test Championship champions (2021) and have won the ICC Champions Trophy (2000). They have reached the Cricket World Cup final twice and the T20 World Cup final once.
