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Sydney, Dec 6 (IANS) Cricket Australia’s century-old governance system could be in for an overhaul when a secret report to the CA board is submitted Wednesday.

“It is understood that the report recommends the 14-man board of elected state delegates be replaced by a nine-man independent commission. Each state will be asked to nominate one board member who has no state or club ties and the six new delegates will then appoint three further independents with specific expertise,” according to a report in the the Herald Sun.

David Crawford, who re-designed the Australian Football League hierarchy in 1992, will present the report Wednesday recommending sweeping changes, it said.

“CA will be left with little alternative but to sack itself.”

Implementing such dramatic change in CA’s century-old governance structure will create considerable angst at the state level, where reforms have been opposed in the past.

“Maybe our governance review, it’s getting close, might even see me the shortest-serving chairman in Cricket Australia’s history,” new CA chairman Wally Edwards said.

“But if we end up with a better system, that will not worry me at all.”

“Since I’ve been on the board, we’ve had three attempts to look at our governance and none of them has got this far.”

“We have too many people on the board. I don’t think Cricket Australia needs 14 directors,” he said.

Three attempts over the past two decades to reform CAs antiquated board structure have failed due to a lack of political will.

The board has recently appointed new selectors, a new coach, created the new position of team performance manager and endorsed Michael Clarke as the new Test captain. The only relic now is the CA board itself .