NZ coach Hesson on ICC board

Mike Hesson has replaced Darren Lehmann as the coaching representative on the International Cricket Council’s cricket committee.

The role effectively became vacant when Lehmann resigned as Australia’s coach after the balltampering affair in South Africa, and the decision was confirmed by the ICC yesterday.

Hesson was appointed with former Australian women’s captain Belinda Clark and Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer.

They join the committee for an initial three-year term each and next week’s annual meeting in Mumbai, on May 28-29, will be their first.

The committee is charged with advising the ICC’s chief executives on issues such as the laws of the game, playing conditions, the use of decision-making technology and regulations surrounding illegal bowling actions.

It is chaired by former Indian captain Anil Kumble and includes former test players Tim May and Clark (Australia), John Stephenson and Andrew Strauss (England), Rahul Dravid (India), Shaun Pollock (South Africa) and Ranjan Madugalle and Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka).

Hesson will continue with the Black Caps and is contracted to New Zealand Cricket until the end of the 2019 World Cup in England.

In 2010 a pub down the road from work was moved about 40m. A year later it was moved back. It is believed to have cost the taxpayer more than $2.5 million to move the brick building about 90m in total and 4m from its original position.

I’ve been to that pub once I believe, twice at a pinch. It’s called the Birdcage, though it was once the Rob Roy and was, by all accounts, notorious back in days when Freemans Bay was a waterfront slum.

Most Aucklanders will never sup from its taps. The city has plenty of pubs, plenty of old pubs, too.

But the Birdcage, nee Rob Roy, survived by dint of its historic designation and that’s great. Despite the fact the vast majority of New Zealanders will never frequent the place