https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/24/englands-cricketers-privately-query-21m-bonus-for-ecb-executives

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/23/senior-ecb-executives-to-share-21m-bonus-despite-covid-job-cuts

Senior ECB executives to share £2.1m bonus despite Covid job cuts

CEO Harrison and Hundred MD Patel among recipients
Body says it is a ‘retention tool for key senior leaders’
The ECB chief executive, Tom Harrison, was paid £512,000 last year despite taking a voluntary pay cut.

The ECB chief executive, Tom Harrison, was paid £512,000 last year despite taking a voluntary pay cut. Photograph: Getty Images
Exclusive by Ali Martin
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Mon 23 Aug 2021 19.01 BST
Tom Harrison and a group of senior executives at the England and Wales Cricket Board are poised to share a projected £2.1m bonus pot despite making 62 job cuts last year in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The most recent ECB accounts show that a five-year Long-Term Incentive Plan is due to be settled in cash in 2022, with the Guardian having learned that Harrison, the board’s chief executive who was paid £512,000 last year despite a voluntary pay cut, and Sanjay Patel, managing director of the Hundred, are among its intended recipients.

The ECB has declined to confirm which executives are included and how many will share the final dividend, citing confidentiality surrounding employee contracts. One senior county official has claimed that “six or seven” individuals could benefit from a scheme that was set up in 2017 and initially forecast to be worth more than £3m.

The governing body has stressed that the LTIP – established under its previous chair, Colin Graves – is not linked directly to the success or otherwise of the Hundred’s launch; the new tournament would be two years old in 2022 but for the inaugural edition last summer being postponed as a result of the pandemic.

Where the ECB money goes - see https://www.ecb.co.uk/about/what-we-do/finance

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