Cricket Ireland confirm salary cuts and furlough

“The Board recognised that with major impacts upon our operations, revenue shortfalls through loss of broadcast and sponsorship revenue, and uncertainty about when we will be able to restart, prudent measures were required to buffer the organisation through at least the next two months,” stated Deutrom. “Preserving jobs and ensuring Cricket Ireland will be in a fit position to commence operations when we return to normal were central to those deliberations.

“We will continue to support all employees as they work from home, maintaining all operational, IT and human resources support to ensure the work can continue.

“However, starting this month all non-playing staff will see a 20 per cent reduction in their salaries for April and May - I shall take an additional 5 per cent cut which will apply to the end of 2020.

“In addition, employees based in the North will be furloughed until the end of May, in line with the UK Government’s job retention scheme.

“In relation to our contracted players, the Board recognised that the players were already losing out significantly through loss of match fees from a number of already-postponed, and possibly to-be-postponed series, and that to ask them to take a further cut to their base remuneration – with no guarantee that all cricket might be rescheduled – would be unreasonable.”

Mandatory leave will apply, with the statement confirming “as an organisation we will support our people as best we can, and will endeavour to keep the interests of the sport, our people and the many businesses across Ireland who rely on our operations first and foremost”.

Deutrom also described as a “wait-and-see holding pattern” in relation to international fixtures and how the Board will prove pragmatic at domestic level “on the great jigsaw puzzle of fixture scheduling that lies ahead”.