Cricket followers must have been left scratching their heads with the events that unfolded ten days ago around the sacking of Tassie Tigers coach Dan Marsh.

Cricket Tasmania’s decision to terminate the contract of the state coach was the correct call but the way the matter was handled left a lot to be desired.

Many fans would have been of the opinion that Marsh’s exit was well overdue given his unflattering results since appointed to replace Tim Coyle as Tigers coach after Tasmania won its third Sheffield Shield title in 2012-13.

His record  – eight wins, 22 outright losses and seven draws from 37 matches in charge –and Tasmania finishing fifth, fifth and last.

Marsh insisted right until the end that he believed he was the right man to lead the Tigers despite the side reaching crisis point after another nine-wicket rout to Western Australia in their last Shield game.

That result left Tasmania in last place on the Shield table and headed for consecutive wooden spoons and seems to have been the straw that broke the camel’s back as far as the CT board was concerned.

The board decided that it would terminate Marsh’s contract immediately rather than let him see out the remainder of the season as head coach.

That was despite the fact that they had given him a two-year contract extension in March last year. CT chairman Andrew Gaggin was quoted at the time as saying that Tasmanian cricket was on a journey and it would take time and patience to rebuild the Tigers’ squad and identify the right players.

Obviously, time and patience ran out in handing Marsh his marching orders – a decision that reportedly left him in shock.

In announcing the decision to end his three and a half year tenure and replace him with interim coach Richard Allanby for the final three games, Gaggin said the performance of the team had not been up to the standard expected and the time had come for a” fresh approach and coaching structure”.

He said the decision to act was made to enable the process of finding a new coach to start immediately alongside the search for a new Hobart Hurricanes coach to replace the sacked Damien Wright.

Gaggin denied that their previous decision to extend Marsh’s contract left the board with egg on their faces despite now facing a pay out for the final 12 months of that contract.

According to some reports, rumours of Marsh’s sacking were leaked and circulating in cricket circles the day before the coach had been told, which if true, is hardly a good look for the CT administration.

Reports that a boys’ club culture is operating inside the organisation were also aired which is concerning and suggests that all is not well in the state of Tasmanian cricket.

Gaggin denied those claims in his press conference saying: “If there is a boys’ club then my invite got lost in the mail. I don’t know what a boy’s club culture is – whether that means people get favours – if it exists then I haven’t seen it. If it does then the flip side of that if you have new people coming in then that is going to change.”

Despite axing both of its highest-profile coaches in Marsh and Wright in the past month, the Tigers in last place on the Shield table and the Hurricanes missing the finals of the BBL for the third year in a row – Gaggin insisted the organisation was not at rock bottom.

But he did advise that CT is to undergo a full independent review of its cricket operations following Marsh’s sacking which has to be a good thing if conducted properly and by the right person.

Such a review certainly appears overdue and more than warranted and should include all levels of the organisation.

New Cricket Tasmania chief executive Nick Cummins takes over the reins from David Johnston in April and his record in helping turn around the Sydney Thunder’s BBL fortunes suggests that hopefully will be the right person to help Cricket Tas clean up its act.

Cummins will oversee an independent review into CT’s structures, pathways and culture and apparently is keen to seek input from the likes of Ricky Ponting, to get him involved in the review and the search for Marsh’s replacement.

That would be a wise move and a step in the right direction.

Ponting would make a great state coach as Marsh’s replacement but apparently has ruled himself out of both jobs, which is a pity.

He has however suggested that his former Tasmanian teammate and Australian assistant coach Michael Di Venuto would be an “obvious replacement” for the sacked Marsh.

Di Venuto left his post as Australia’s batting mentor last year to take on the head coaching role at English county outfit Surrey and Ponting believes he would be a perfect fit for the Tigers.

“There’s an obvious one coaching in England at the moment,” Ponting told cricket.com.au. “Michael Di Venuto would be a good replacement.”

What is imperative is the fact that CT must get the right person to take over the coaching job.

Tasmanian cricket fans deserve better results from their state teams in all formats of the game.

If CT want fans to engage, attend matches and support the Tigers and Hurricanes then the onus is on them to get their act into gear both on and off the field.

At the moment that does not appear to be happening.