Date-stamped : 23 Mar95 - 14:33
Players seek to instigate conduct code - Richard Bright

ENGLAND`S county cricketers are trying to install their own  code
of  conduct  in time for the forthcoming season. Lord`s officials
are to be asked to rubber-stamp the initiative, which is  a  pro-
duct  of  the new-look Cricketers` Association under David Grave-
ney.

The former Gloucestershire and Durham captain, now general secre-
tary  of  the  players`  union,  presented a copy of the freshly-
drafted code to Alan Smith, the Test and County Cricket   Board`s
chief executive, at Lord`s yesterday.

Graveney said English players felt strongly that domestic cricket
should be more self-regulatory in areas of discipline.

"We feel we should strive to get cricket more in line with  golf,
where  the players set the rules of conduct and etiquette and ad-
minister that code themselves. Standards in golf are high and  we
must  try to emulate that. Captains are the key people in cricket
and they must also have a sensible relationship with umpires."

Carter to leave Northamptonshire

Bob Carter, Northamptonshire`s chief  coach  since  1987,  is  to
leave the club at the end of the coming season. The news comes as
the county await the outcome of Warwickshire`s interest  in   re-
cruiting their director of cricket, Phil Neale.

Carter, 34, was offered another long-term contract but turned  it
down  in  favour of a three-year deal as senior coach to Welling-
ton, the New Zealand side he has been helping for the last  three
winters.

"It will be a wrench," Carter said. "I first came to  the  county
in 1976, and Allan Lamb and I are the two longest-serving members
of the playing staff. But times move on."

A row between Kerry Packer`s Channel  Nine   Network   and   Aus-
tralis,  the new pay-TV operator, is threatening to prevent Brit-
ish viewers from watching Australia`s tour of  the  West  Indies.
Australis,  which  began  transmission  in late January, claim to
have the rights to the Caribbean series. But Packer`s free-to-air
network,  the major cricket broadcaster, will not budge on simul-
taneous coverage with its fledgling rival.

Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
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