Cricket SA's mess

Those of us who love cricket will be terribly distressed at the events surrounding Cricket South Africa.

When I was involved in administering cricket at the UCBSA, admittedly on the fringes as Cricket Annual editor and statistician, I was amazed to see how small the management team at the Wanderers was. It was effectively Ali Bacher and a small team. Prior to that it was Charles Fortune and no team.

Positions, if not ex gratia, were certainly accompanied by small payments. Having said that, of course, Ali did get paid handsomely for his subsequent work.

Now President Mthuthuzeli Nyoka has been turfed in a vote of no confidence engineered by Gerald Majola, who paid himself a bonus of R1,8m for orchestrating the IPL two seasons ago.

It took huge amounts of effort for various media to uncover the mess, and it is still not uncovered, but two things stand out:

* Majola was paid R1,8m, which he is not giving back and is not being asked to
* Nyoka did not get such benefits

In addition, Majola incurred R771 000 travelling expenses, and let's not mention the R28 000 he took to move his family around.

So, Majola earns millions. Nyoka is fired.

And we'd like to win the World Cup!

Strewth. More to come


This shows that they have yet to update their website:

http://www.cricket.co.za/csa_articles.aspx?id=6

This shows what Gerald Majola says he believes in:

As CEO, he has applied many business and sports principles to the administration of the game.  These include strategic development plans, high performance programmes for players, strict financial controls and good corporate governance measures.

http://www.cricket.co.za/csa_articles.aspx?id=5