Cricket: Vaughan tipped for seat on NZC board

Former test player Justin Vaughan is expected to be appointed to the board of New Zealand Cricket at today's annual meeting in Christchurch.

The Auckland doctor and businessman has been tipped to fill one of the seats vacated by Peter Sharp and Terry Jarvis and, at 38, become the youngest member of the board.

The Herald understands the second vacancy will be filled by former Canterbury board member Steve Riddell.

Vaughan is a member of the Auckland board and chairs the finance sub-committee, but will have to step down from those duties.

His day job is chief executive of fledgling Mt Wellington company BrainZ, which develops, manufactures and sells brain monitoring equipment.

A long-serving player for Auckland, Vaughan made his test debut on the bomb-stricken 1992 tour of Sri Lanka, when he was one of the replacements for the five players who returned home on compassionate grounds.

He was recalled by Glenn Turner to play two tests against the West Indies in 1996 and retained when Steve Rixon was installed as coach a year later, playing two tests in Pakistan and the first test against England in 1997.

Today's meeting will also ratify NZC's net deficit for the past financial year of $6.15 million, up from last year's $3.62 million.

In his report, chief executive Martin Snedden said the abandonment of Sri Lanka's tour because of the Boxing Day tsunami was a major factor.

He hoped Sri Lanka's rescheduled tour in December and January would recover most of the lost earnings.