Paul Downton still regrets the unfinished business he had to leave behind when he was sacked as managing director by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Downton was preparing to travel to the West Indies to join England during their Test tour in the spring of 2015 when he was told his employment was about to end.
His 18-month tenure had been eventful, and occasionally fraught - including the axing of controversial record-breaking batsman Kevin Pietersen in the aftermath of England's whitewash defeat in the 2013/14 Ashes.
Added to that, he oversaw Alastair Cook's sacking as one-day international captain in late 2014, less than two months before the start of a World Cup campaign which resulted in an embarrassing early exit for Eoin Morgan's team instead.
A new era, in limited-overs cricket especially, was nonetheless about to begin - but it transpired Downton would not be part of it.
In content from an interview with The Cricketer magazine, published by the Daily Mail, the 59-year-old former England wicketkeeper recalls the sequence of events.
"Two days before I was due to join the side in Antigua, I got an email request from Tom (Harrison, the ECB chief executive) to see him.
"I was told my job was being restructured, that I was being made redundant and that an announcement would be released on Sky within the hour.
"It was a huge blow. there was so much more I wanted to do."
Source: PA
