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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Simon Burnton

Wisden calls on ECB to return £2.1m bonus pot after ‘annus horribilis’

Tom Harrison was criticised for presiding over job losses, the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal and failure on the pitch while receiving a lavish bonus.
Tom Harrison was criticised for presiding over job losses, the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal and failure on the pitch while receiving a lavish bonus. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Wisden has suggested that the senior executives of the England and Wales Cricket Board who are due to share a £2.1m bonus pot should return or refuse to accept the money after an “annus horribilis” for English cricket.

Cricket’s annually published reference book says in its latest edition that the “ethics of the bonus scandal were as bad as the optics” amid job losses and a variety of sporting and administrative failures.

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