Restructure could lead to redundancies at Surrey 27/09/2010 |
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Surrey County Cricket Club chief executive Paul Sheldon has revealed that the club may be forced to make redundancies as part of a restructure designed to plug the gap left by reduced revenues from ticket sales.
He told BCC Surrey: "We want to get the club structured so we can cope for what we expect to be much worse times next year. This is in-keeping with a global response to difficult times."
The news comes with the England and Wales Cricket Board expected to endorse plans to cut the number of group games in next year's domestic Twenty20 competition from 16 to 10.
Most counties faced lower attendances at individual games this summer and there was widespread dissatisfaction among players at the amount of fixtures on the domestic schedule.
"Two summers ago, we played 10 group games – five home and five away,” said Sheldon. “That worked very well. This summer, we increased the number of games and the same number of people came to watch eight home matches as came to watch five. We've spread the audience across the board and I hope we learn from that.
"Last year, we had the Ashes, which was a fantastic experience and made us a lot of money. This summer was the first time for 25 years that our Test match has not sold out and it is my responsibility as chief executive of the business to make sure that we react to that."
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