Cricket Tasmania expects to appoint a chief executive soon from an unprecedented number of candidates.
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The feverish search to find a replacement for outgoing Nick Cummins whose term winds up in late November has attracted 56 applicants.
Cricket Tasmania chairman Andrew Gaggin said the lucrative position has caused a stir from not only within Tasmania and Australia, but "all across the world".
"There's 56 and there's at least a dozen of those that could easily be the next CEO of Cricket Tasmania," he said. "They're high-quality candidates. I think we'll get a good CEO out of the next one."
A new precedent for the state game has been set since Cummins took over in 2017.
The 46-year-old came into Tasmania with a big reputation, having turned around the Sydney Thunder quickly from also-rans to Big Bash champions under his watch.
"When we went through the process back then, there wasn't the interest there is now in the role," Gaggin said.
"There had needed to be a lot of changes and we have worked closely with Nick to make a lot of them in the past two and a half years. That has resulted in our teams being a lot better than they were."
Cummins has also turned around its financial position through the promotion of the Hobart Hurricanes.
The BBL side has increased its Launceston content up to two games amid the biggest drawing Tasmanian crowds of the Canes' home season.
Gaggin is calling on the new chief executive to "continue and expand" the work of Cummins, who will return to Melbourne to head several roles up for Cricket Victoria.
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"Our financial situation has certainly improved under Nick," Gaggin said.
"So now we don't see the big CEO as such a big change agent as we did when Nick came in. We see the new one as continuing on a good trajectory for the association."
Cricket Tasmania will be acting on the Hussey Report it commissioned from the Australian batting great.
"The thing that Hussey said was the key is to get the best people and put them in the right roles," Gaggin said.
"That's all you need to do - it doesn't matter where they are from like [rower] Drew Ginn. Even if that's Mars."
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