South Africa yet to commit to Afro-Asian series

The Afro-Asian Cricket Cooperation might have made great plans to stage cricket matches between teams representing the two continents in August, but the South African cricket board is yet to commit itself to it. Gerald Majola, the chief executive of the UCB said that no decision has been taken so far about the series.

"We haven't confirmed anything, we haven't received any formal invitation yet," Majola was quoted as saying as saying in the SuperCricket website. "When you agree to something like this you need guarantees, and nothing has come to our table for us to be able to say it's on or off."

The planned series consists of three one-day matches between the cream of Africa and Asia, and will be played either in India or South Africa on August 17, 19 and 21. On July 16, Peter Chingoka, president of the African Cricket Association, and Jagmohan Dalmiya, president of the Asian Cricket Council, will meet in Kolkata to discuss details of the series. Majola said that a decision would be taken following the meeting. "They will discuss the matter and come back to the individual countries after that," Majola said.