The crisis in South African cricket deepened on Tuesday when it was revealed that the country’s sports minister had been asked to get involved in the administrative problems affecting the sport.
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has written to sports minister Nathi Mthethwa claiming that it had met with “serious resistance” from Cricket South Africa over an attempt to investigate the issues in cricket.
The letter asks the minister for assistance to launch legal proceedings against CSA or “to take whatever action in your powers you deem necessary to restore the dignity of the game”.
The latest move could put CSA’s membership of the International Cricket Council in jeopardy because the ICC’s constitution forbids government interference in its member bodies.
The latest revelation came a day after CSA announced that the Mzansi Super League,…