Xtra Time Web Desk: The forthcoming England cricket team’s tour to South Africa looks to be in serious doubts following chaos in Cricket South Africa’s administration. Eoin Morgan led England side will not travel to the rainbow nation if the Cricket South Africa board do not sort out the internal issues. The England side was supposed to leave for Cape Town on Monday and will now have to wait for the developments.
Yacoob, a former Constitutional Court judge, was appointed by sports minister Nathi Mthethwa to lead the proposed interim board on October 30. But Cricket South Africa’s Members Council, comprising the 12 presidents of the cricket unions, refused to recognise the interim board and said they were seizing back control despite an express order from the Minister of Sport Nathi Mthethwa.
‘I have no doubt that if the Members Council doesn’t take a proper decision, England will be discouraged from coming,’ Yacoob said . ‘The Members Council and the executive have been uncooperative, unresponsive and rude in their dealings with us. They broke their promise to ratify the interim board made two weeks ago. There is no chance of them self-correcting, barring a miracle.’
If the tour gets cancelled, CSA will take USD4.2-million revenue hit from TV rights. It could also prompt the ICC, on receipt of a complaint from the members council, to suspend CSA on the grounds of outside interference.