Beleaguered Cricket South Africa (CSA) has been given until the end of April to meet sponsor Momentum’s demands for changes in the game’s national management.
The lists of demands was handed to CSA this week, days after major sponsor Standard Bank announced it was ending its long association with the national body.
Sport24 reported that Momentum – which sponsors one-day cricket in South Africa, and other events, including schools cricket contests – is seeking sweeping changes by the end of the current season on 30 April next year.
The company wants the resignation of the CSA board (alternatively the resignation of the current president and vice-president); an independent forensic audit of the financial affairs of CSA, including management of expense accounts; a four-year ‘going concern assessment’ by independent auditors; the appointment of a ‘lead independent director to the CSA Board with relevant experience’; the appointment of an independent director to the CSA Board ‘with on-field cricket experience’; and the active engagement with South African Cricketers’ Association ‘with a view to positively resolving outstanding issues of dispute (given that they are a critical stakeholder in the game)’.
Momentum said it hoped ‘CSA will act decisively and with transparency so that cricket in South Africa can move forward’.