By MIKE KEEGAN, CHIEF SPORTS REPORTER
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Beleaguered Lancashire has cancelled its finish of season awards get together – as a disastrous marketing campaign heads in the direction of a depressing conclusion.
On Saturday, Day by day Mail Sport revealed a damning particular report on the staggering decline of one in every of English cricket’s main forces, highlighting a list of spectacular behind-the-scenes failures and a membership seemingly at battle with its members.
On Monday, it introduced that director of cricket efficiency Mark Chilton, who has presided over an period of underachievement for the lads’s group, could be leaving the county, together with director of girls’s cricket David Thorley.
With one sport of the season remaining Lancashire discover themselves seventh in Division Two of the County Championship and will find yourself with the wood spoon for the primary time ought to outcomes go towards them and so they find yourself backside.
The awards night was scheduled for this Sunday at The Level, one of many conferencing services at Previous Trafford.
Over a drinks reception and three-course meal visitors had been as a result of obtain a welcome from under-fire Chair Dame Sarah Storey.
Clouds have been gathering over Lancashire and Previous Trafford for a while with the group struggling in Division Two of the County Championship
Paralympic legend Storey, as our piece highlighted, has raised eyebrows with a few of her resolution making, together with her look on Strictly Come Dancing, amid a backdrop of a county in turmoil.
An advert for the occasion on Lancashire’s web site has since been eliminated.
Apart from Chilton and Thorley, controversial chief govt Daniel Gidney may also depart after 14 years within the position. Gidney has obtained searing criticism amid accusations that cricket has fallen by the wayside throughout his tenure, because the enterprise improved its business standing due to the transformation of the bottom into an events-hosting and live performance facility.
He shall be changed by Richard Kenyon, the previous Nottinghamshire CC and Everton exec.
Lancashire declined to remark.
