CSA tackles 'vested interests and manipulation' with non-aligned chairman

The next chairman of Cricket South Africa's (CSA's) board will be one of the new independent directors and will not be drawn from the ranks of the provincial presidents, as has hitherto been the case, BDlive reports.

In that way, CSA plans to avoid what acting president Willie Basson described as the "vested interests and the manipulation behind the scenes that normally takes place."

A nominations committee formed of independent members and chaired independently is set to name, by the end of the month, candidates for the five non-aligned directors' positions, but according to BDlive the move, approved by a CSA board in the midst of sweeping restructuring efforts, is causing rumbles in the underbelly of cricket administration and elsewhere in South African sport.

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