About the Author

After a three-year period of establishing his own sports management consultancy, looking after 30 different sports, Malcolm Speed was appointed the chief executive of the Australian Cricket Board in 1997. Then in 2001, he was appointed chief executive officer of the International Cricket Council, holding the role for several years before it came to an abrupt end in 2008 after a highly publicised falling out with the ICC president. He now lectures and consults from his home in Melbourne.