“I feel a bit uncomfortable about this, because … it’s not about me,” Nick Hockley says. The outgoing Cricket Australia chief executive has just five months left in the sport’s most demanding role yet he continues to avoid the limelight. “I know I’m nearing the end but I’ve still got quite a lot to do.”
The Birmingham-born son of a doctor father and optometrist mother turned 50 three weeks ago. By the time he leaves CA in March, it will be almost five years since he was the somewhat surprising appointment as interim, then permanent, CEO. “I didn’t want to do a big party,” he says of his birthday. “Maybe in March, or an end-of-season celebration.”
