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Lancashire chief govt Daniel Gidney is being investigated by the Cricket Regulator for dismissing those that have referred to as a vote of no confidence within the membership’s board: ‘Previous, entitled white males.’
Gidney was the topic of an official grievance to the regulator after referring to a gaggle of Lancashire vice-presidents – together with Michael Atherton, Neil Fairbrother, David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd and Paul Allott – with the outline in a Sunday newspaper. The Cricket Regulator declined to remark whereas Day by day Mail Sport additionally contacted Lancashire and the ECB.
It’s the newest tempestuous twist in a saga that has seen the eminent assortment of former England internationals with lifelong associations with the membership marketing campaign for better focus to be positioned on the cricket aspect of the 162-year-old county.
They’ve campaigned for extra data of the game to seek out its method into govt considering at Previous Trafford and narrowly failed final month with a Particular Basic Assembly petition to extend illustration of former workers on the board from two to 4. Lloyd, 79, later had an software to hitch the board rejected with out supply of an interview, leaving him ‘flabbergasted’ and ‘embarrassed’.
The ‘insurgent’ faction at the moment are pushing for the membership’s AGM – which has been squeezed right into a 90-minute hole between T20 Blast fixtures for Lancashire’s males’s and girls’s sides on the bottom subsequent Financial institution Vacation Monday – to be adjourned. They imagine that along with its difficult positioning within the season’s calendar, it supplies inadequate time for what’s considered as a key assembly for the membership’s future.
It has been introduced ahead from its authentic date subsequent Friday, which might have post-dated the SGM had Lancashire accepted the petition of no confidence reasonably than dismiss it as non-compliant.
Daniel Gidney (proper) is being investigated by the cricket regulator
Gidney had dismissed a gaggle of Lancashire vice-presidents – together with Michael Atherton (left) and David Lloyd (proper) – as ‘previous, entitled white males’
Additionally they say that the membership’s Nominations Committee has exceeded its remit in not interviewing appropriate member candidates and in making most well-liked decisions.
Members, they argue, ought to have a alternative of candidates for all positions, and that opposite to present membership coverage, balanced arguments for member resolutions must be despatched out with each AGM and SGM notices. Quite than members being urged by the membership, undemocratically, to vote in opposition to resolutions with out being provided knowledgeable alternative.
Gidney, 56, is retiring on the finish of the 2026 season, after 14 years on the helm, having overseen a complete growth of the bottom, large strides being made in girls’s cricket – Lancashire have been double cup winners final 12 months – and a windfall recouped from the 70 per cent majority stake sale of the Manchester Hundred franchise to the RPSG group.
Nonetheless, additional evaluation of the membership’s latest accounts means that the £29.2million money injection masks what was successfully a lack of just below £3.5m for 2025.
On the pitch, Lancashire are 10 factors off the promotion spots in Division Two after being relegated in 2024.
