Chaos for ECB?

This article is entitled "Chaos for Yorkshire" and there's no doubt that they've contributed heavily to the problems they now face, having failed to register Azeem Rafiq properly. But I wonder how the ECB have managed to deflect the blame solely on to Yorkshire.

Afterall, the game in question was played on 27th June and yet the quarter-final was only called off, with all the spectators assembled, on the evening of 7th July. What had been happening in all that time. Even the amateur league that I play in on Saturdays, who use computers as infrequently as possible and consequently make the admin procedures a bit more laborious than they need to be for the cricket teams that play in the league, manage to keep tabs on who is qualified and who isn't in less than a week. Once the team sheet had been submitted, it should have been the simplest job in the world to cross check the team against a list of registered players. The league I play in must do this manually - I'd expect a professionally run body like the ECB to be able to do a cross-check automatically and raise an exception if necessary.

Whatever the system used, it failed and the supporters were let down. There seems to be a hint of cover up about the fact the various different parties say the issue came to light at different times, according to reports. But none of the reports suggest that whether the issue came to light on Friday 4th, over the weekend or Monday 7th, all of those are incredibly late considering that the game in question was played on 27th June. And I still can't get a grasp of why a captain of England at under 15 and under 16 might still have to be considered an overseas player in county cricket - what was he doing playing for England in that case?

An equally appropriate heading for this Cricinfo article would have been "ECB in chaos".