CricketNext reported on September 6 about a female staffer writing multiple emails and letters to the International Cricket Council (ICC) top bosses alleging harassment at workplace. While the ICC top-brass has failed to give the staffer, who has now resigned, a hearing, shocking details have emerged from her letters and emails.
In her letters, the staffer made serious allegations against ICC’s Alex Marshall who is simultaneously in charge of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) and Human Resource (HR) department too.
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The staffer wrote emails to ICC chair Greg Barclay and CEO Geoff Allardice, sharing details of her trauma and made a single-point request to give her a fair hearing.
Neither Barclay nor Allardice wrote back to her.
“I have continuously raised concerns about treatment by Alex Marshall during and after Manu’s (Sawhney) regime. I was subjected to unfair, unprofessional, and biased treatment with an intention to harm me professionally and personally by Alex and I request you to please set an inquiry committee consisting of neutral/independent members with whom I can share the evidence, examples, and incidents to prove my claim,” says the letter to Barclay.
In another attempt to get a hearing from ICC’s top bosses, the female staffer shared more details and alleged Marshall was “causing mental harassment and professional harm”.
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“Taking a huge risk, I am hereby sharing my official complaint with you against Alex Marshall for causing me mental harassment, using his authority and power of being General Manager HR to cause me professional harm, and spreading rumours to cause reputational harm to me,” the staffer wrote to Allardice on Marshall.
It is reliably learnt that this wasn’t the first time allegations like these have been made against Marshall, who is a former British policeman.
“There are claims that more instances like these have happened in the past but there hasn’t been any word from the bosses on it yet. Even all the mails/letters written by the female staffer, no one from the ICC has responded yet. The only response she received so far was from Jonathan Hall, who is the General Counsel and Company Secretary at ICC. Even in that reply, there was no acknowledgement of the complaints/concerns raised by the female staffer, one of their own employee, and only issues like insurance and work visa were addressed,” said a source tracking developments.
A spokesperson of the global cricketing body finally responded after CricketNext’s newsbreak on September 6 but didn’t give out any details on follow-up, if any, by the senior management.
“The ICC does not comment on employee issues however we have fair and thorough policies and procedures in place to ensure any issue raised is dealt with appropriately,” the spokesperson told CricketNext.
We reached out to the ICC again after getting few excerpts from the female staffer’s allegations and categorically asked them about Marshall’s role. Marshall happens to be the head of ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) and simultaneously also heads the organisation’s HR department.
How can one person perform two very important duties which are completely different and require a completely different skillset? While Marshall’s past career as a policeman allowed him to work as ACU head, there’s no known employment record of him working in HR at any other time.
“Technically, being a policeman is a tough job and heading HR requires you to show concern towards your colleagues. Both are diametrically opposite roles,” say those tracking developments.
Sources add that Marshall gets paid “more” at the ICC than his usual salary because he performs dual roles, a practice that has never been questioned. Although this could not be verified separately.
Additionally, we asked the ICC whether they acted on any of the complaints, both in the past and the current one, against Marshall, especially considering the federation says they have fair and thorough policies and procedures in place to address any issues raised.
Further, we have also asked ICC whether both Barclay and Allardice have taken/suggested any action on female staffer’s allegations.
The wait for response continues and the story will be updated moment we get one.
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