Former NSW premier secures top cricket job

Former New South Wales premier Mike Baird has been announced arsenic the caller president of Cricket Australia.

The governing assemblage connected Sunday confirmed Lachlan Henderson volition measurement down from the relation successful February, but volition stay connected the board.

Henderson is leaving Melbourne and volition beryllium based successful Perth owed to a caller job, starring to his determination to relinquish the relation of chair.

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Baird - who led the NSW Liberal enactment from 2014 to 2017 - is based successful Sydney and has been endorsed unanimously by Cricket Australia directors, arsenic good arsenic authorities and territory chairs.

Former NSW premier Mike Baird volition beryllium the caller Cricket Australia chair. (SMH)

"Lachlan has made a large publication arsenic seat and I'm delighted helium volition proceed to supply his sizeable concern and cricket expertise connected the CA board," Baird said.

"It is an honour to instrumentality specified an important relation successful Australian cricket astatine a clip erstwhile truthful overmuch breathtaking enactment is being done to turn our nationalist athletics and instrumentality it forward.

"I'm pleased to person the accidental to enactment adjacent much intimately with CEO Nick Hockley and his squad and each those moving crossed Australian cricket."

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