Naidoo promises a new start

Logan Naidoo, the newly elected president of the KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union, has spoken of his embarrassment with the behaviour of some of the province's administrators.

Months of bitter infighting culminated with the election of Naidoo at Friday's AGM. "It's an embarrassment how different officials, and I'm not saying I'm excluded, have conducted themselves, we need to overcome that and move forward," Naidoo told South Africa's Supersport channel. "One would normally feel excited at being elected president, but I don't feel that. I don't feel good about all this."

Naidoo spoke of the fantastic reception he had received following his election, telling reporters that "the black African workers actually started dancing ... it's almost as if they have been in a cage. You need to run the place as a business, but not at the expense of human feeling. I need to balance the business side and the workers' interests."

Naidoo told Supersport that his primary aim was to spread the game into the black community. "If we look at the Dolphins, there isn't one [black African player] you can talk about. With the money we have we would be able to do something about that."