SuperSport final may be shelved

Cricket South Africa may discard the final of the SuperSport series because of complaints over the format of the competition. The board will consider a proposal on Wednesday where each team plays five home matches and five away matches and the one with the highest points will win the championship.

"Tame draws are not what we're looking for. We're looking for a result and it hasn't happened in the last two finals. Things have now got to the stage where we wonder whether there's any point in having a final," Brian Basson, the general manager of cricket affairs, told SuperCricket. "All the sides will play five home matches and five away matches, they each will have played each other home and away. So no particular side has been favoured and the team with the most points at the end of it all should be the champions.

"There needs to be some objective for teams to be playing towards even if they are out of contention for the title by the halfway stage," said Basson. "So we are also proposing that there be financial rewards - the team finishing fifth will earn more than the side finishing sixth, and so on. Rather than questioning their keenness once they have no chance whatsoever of winning, the ranking order in the competition will see teams rewarded according to a sliding scale."