The pair follow chairman David Peever and long serving board member Mark Taylor out of the organisation since the release of the report, while James Sutherland left two weeks ago after announcing his resignation in June.
Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft are serving suspensions from the Newlands scandal while Darren Lehmann quit as coach in the days afer.
Amarfio had helped engineer the record $1.182 billion TV deal but there was disharmony over CA’s negotiation tactics with stakeholders. He had copped criticism for having his PA cook him hot breakfasts at work.
Howard, who joined CA in 2011, implemented many of the recommendations outlined in the Argus review, which was commissioned to address the declining performance of the national men’s team after the heavy Ashes defeat in 2010/11.
Many slammed Australia’s “win at all costs” culture after the events in South Africa though the review found slightly differently but was also damning.
“In our opinion, CA’s fault is not that it established a culture of ‘win at all costs’. Rather, it made the fateful mistake of enacting a program that would lead to ‘winning without counting the costs’,” the review said.
“It is this approach that has led, inadvertently, to the situation in which cricket finds itself today –
for good and for ill.”
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