THE PROCESS IN WHICH CRICKET AUSTRALIA CHAIRMAN DAVID PEEVER COULD POTENTIALLY BE FORCED OUT:
*State associations (voting before they'd read The Ethics Centre report) unanimously re-elected Peever at last week's annual general meeting, asking him to serve another three-year term as chairman.
*Those same states have the power to call an extraordinary general meeting (EGM).
*Any one of CA's nine directors (including chairman Peever) can be removed if voted out by two-thirds of state delegates.
*The chairmen of state organisations are: NSW's John Knox (Credit Suisse chief executive), Queensland's Sal Vasta (judge), South Australia's Andrew Sinclair (tax and superannuation specialist at law firm Cowell Clarke), Tasmania's Andrew Gaggin (senior litigation partner of Murdoch Clarke), Victoria's Paul Barker (chairman of WorkSafe Victoria) and Western Australia's Ken Michael (former WA governor).
*State chairmen have a say in the process of selecting CA's directors via a nominations committee.
*CA's governance underwent significant changes at an EGM in 2012 (after a review recommended a smaller board). There are now nine directors, with state bodies effectively akin to CA's shareholders.
"Peever noted on Monday he serves "as chairman at the pleasure of the board and I serve as a director at the pleasure of our owners, the states".
*Players' union chairman Greg Dyer was recently critical of the present model, suggesting it "is neither in any way representative nor genuinely independent".
