December 1st, 2007

Grass wicket announced for vancouver and montreal.( h'mmmm) both of which have a culture of playing cricket on grass. not. see
bcmcl news west van cricket club.

Canada to host under 19 world cup of cricket in 2012

Ben sennik re-elected president of c.c.a. 1st v.p. howard petrook
resigns to be replaced by the former president of the o.c.a. the
reason for the resignation appears unclear but conjecture is that
Ajuha, the new c.e.o., got the job petrook coveted. petrook the
insider probably didn't have a chance anyway. Ajuha has the
connection to satyam and wisden and was probably the i.c.c hand
picked candidate for the job.

2nd vice president Ramesh Jagoo from Ontario defeated by a nominee from Alberta. The c.c.a. press release indicates that the income and expense statement shows a loss of $17,000 for fiscal 2007 with a plus $35,000 loss attributed to the single item of currency
conversion. Look for the loss number to become larger, the word
projected was used to qualify the amount of the loss.

November 17th, 2007
With the election of Mr Sihota to the b.c.m.c.l presidency, Mr.
Sennik's election prospects become more sanguine.

Update: Mr. Sennik was elected President of the CCA by acclamation. Mr. Sihota’s huffing & puffing amounted to naught. The newly elected Mr. Sihota was brushed aside by the well organized Mr. Sennik who unceremoniously had Mr. Atul Ahuja confirmed as CEO and Canada was awarded the licence to host the 2012 Under 19 World Cup by the ICC.

Cricinfo Website - 9/20/2007
The Canadian Cricket Association has appointed its first chief executive following a four-month search. Atul Ahuja, an Indian-born Canadian citizen with extensive business experience, will take up the role on November 1.
Ahuja has held senior level executive positions with several international companies in India, the United States and Canada, most recently with Satyam Computer Services and Intelligroup Inc., both in the information technology field.

Our Response:
Ben Sennick clone appointed as Canada’s new cricket CEO.
The press release of the CCA heralds the appointment of Atul Ahuja but we suggest the appointment moves Canadian cricket further in the direction of the oligopolies that control the game. We predict that if the appointment is confirmed. Mr. Ahuja will move to get rid of the independent CCA webpage as a cost saver measure.

Mr. Ahuja’s intecedents like Mr. Sennik are corporate. Not that there is anything wrong with that. In an article titled “Now There is a Good Bet” in March of 2007 we reported that Satyam listed on the NASDAQ, and a company to which Mt Atul Ahuja seems to have a close connection, was a joint owner of “cricinfo” with Wisden. Wisden sold its interest in Cricinfo to Disney, a NYSE listed company in the spring of 2007. Canadian Cricket then moved to appoint a former Satyam executive Mr. Ahuja as CEO in September, 2007.

Among the job prerequisites of the CEO of Canadian cricket was “bi-lingual French and English.” In apparent rejection of the job description the CCA appoints as its CEO a non French speaker. The main qualification of the new CEO appears to be that he moves in the rarefied air where community values are sacrificed to the almighty dollar. Is this the type of individual we want as CEO of Canadian Cricket? A Ben Sennick clone with the mindset to make the same errors in judgment.

We have the following questions. When it was determined that no candidate fulfilled the bi-lingual language requirement or the language requirement was discarded, why was the job not reposted? What is Mr., Ahuja’s solution to the present difficulties wish the Ontario government and auditor general? Will the CCA continue to accept money for Ontario only projects or personnel from either the Ontario government in the ICC? How are the financial requirements the various CCA trust to be kept separate from CCA operations?