Who moved my ground?
Wanderers' international status has been restored after Cricket South Africa and the Gauteng board came to an agreement but by stripping a major venue of its matches, rescheduling them to other venues, and then miraculously restoring them again to
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
Wanderers' international status has been restored after Cricket South Africa and the Gauteng board came to an agreement but by stripping a major venue of its matches, rescheduling them to other venues, and then miraculously restoring them again to the original one shows little respect for the people who pay to attend matches, writes Rodney Hartman on Independent Online.
... the Members Forum is Cricket South Africa's 20-person committee that largely comprises the presidents of all its affiliates. They are a bunch of, shall we say, members, and apparently should not have been involved in the first place in CSA's fight with the Gauteng Cricket Board. In fact, there is a strong suspicion that some of these members couldn't organise a push-up in a gym, but there they were a month ago casting what Dr Nyoka calls the mecca of South African cricket into the wildnerness. On Wednesday, by all accounts, the Members Forum was nowhere to be seen when CSA announced that the issues with the GCB had been amicably resolved. It raises the question of the actual role of the Members Forum and, more precisely, of who pulls their strings.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo