Greenberg was chief govt of the NRL earlier than resigning final 12 months

The ACA has been with no everlasting CEO since Alistair Nicholson resigned late final 12 months and has been led by interim Joe Connellan whereas the sport has navigated a summer time impacted by Covid-19.

Greenberg had been tipped for both the ACA place or the identical position at Cricket Australia which is at the moment being led by Nick Hockley who changed Kevin Roberts final June.

He resigned from the NRL final April amid the fallout from the pandemic.

“I want to thank the ACA board and the gamers for the chance to advocate for them. I’ve an extended historical past with cricket – it is the sport I first fell in love with – and am trying ahead to the chance to work carefully on their behalf in partnership with Cricket Australia and the state associations for the nice of the sport,” Greenberg stated.

“This can be a position that comes with nice accountability and I’m very a lot trying ahead to assembly and chatting with as many gamers and members as I can over the approaching months.”

Hockley, who has steered CA by means of the pandemic with a full males’s and girls’s worldwide season happening in addition to two Large Bash tournaments, welcomed the appointment.

“The position of CEO on the Australian Cricketers’ Affiliation CEO is an extremely essential one, and on behalf of Cricket Australia, I would prefer to congratulate Todd Greenberg on his appointment,” he stated.

“Todd’s expertise in administering the Nationwide Rugby League will convey invaluable insights that can undoubtedly profit cricket. We welcome Todd again to cricket, the place he each performed first grade cricket for Randwick and labored at Cricket NSW, and I stay up for working with him as we full this summer time of cricket and sit up for 2021-22, which is able to characteristic males’s and girls’s Ashes sequence.”