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ARTICLE: TCCB's new dress code for SL tour. (M.Selvey)-11 Mar 1993




The Guardian 11 March 1993 - Dexter  unscathed  as  TCCB  worries
about dress code - Mike Selvey.

 Ted Dexter sat behind a table in the Lord's  pavilion  yesterday
and  faced  the assembled media. His head was still firmly on his
shoulders.  Predictions  that  Dexter,  as  chairman  of  England
selectors, would be given a rough ride by the members of the Test
and County Cricket Board at their spring meeting this  week  were
wide  of  the  mark.  He was, he said, treated courteously. There
were no suggestions of abdication or hara-kiri, and all they  now
wanted to do was to look forward to next summer and the Australi-
ans.
 Perhaps this was because the board members, dapper  to  a  fault
and  sensitive  to  such things, gave considerable discussion in-
stead to the sartorial standards of the team.
 Although the  assembled  were  apparently  less  concerned  with
results  than  forward  planning, Dexter, wearing a simple light-
grey two-piece suit, felt able to offer some crumbs of comfort.
 For starters there was a copper-bottomed reason for the loss  of
all three Tests: the Indians played better than us. But there was
more. ''I was able to give them some encouraging news,''  he  re-
vealed.  Resignation?  India  fielding  under-age players and the
matches declared null and void?  None  of  it.  ''Specifically,''
Dexter  continued, ''there was the advancement of Chris Lewis and
Graeme Hick in particular, and also  Neil  Fairbrother  and  Paul
Jarvis, and I perceive a better balance than for some time.''
 In other words, if Lewis can bat at six there will  be  no  need
for  a batsman-wicketkeeper - a strategy that went horribly wrong
this winter when England fielded a player capable of  doing  nei-
ther.  This will be good news for Jack Russell and any bowler ca-
pable of getting the ball past the bat.
 The TCCB's chief executive Alan Smith - fittingly attired  in  a
traditional blue pin-stripe - said discussion of the team's stan-
dard of dress was precipitated by news photographs taken  at  the
presentations  after  the  third  Test  in  Bombay.  These showed
players sporting a variety of T-shirts, shorts,  hats  and  shoes
instead of something more corporate.
 ''We have been asked to reconsider the matter of  dress  code,''
said Dexter, had slipped from their usual good standards on occa-
sions.''
 Dexter mentioned the  difficulties  associated  with  trying  to
please  different sponsors - the Nigel Mansell hat-swap syndrome.
Then there were the problems of attending  functions,  travelling
the sub-continent and playing a game that, Dexter pointed out, is
both hot and dirty.
 He failed to say exactly who in the party -  the  team  manager,
tour  manager  or  captain - was responsible for allowing the de-
cline. ''Of course we will do all we can to ensure that the  team
look as good as they can at all times,'' he said, ''but ultimate-
ly it's what you do on the field that matters.''  Perhaps  Gianni
Versace should be co-opted on to the committee just in case.

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