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ANALYSIS | Cricket SA's new constitution could be sport's governance template … if allowed

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Rihan Richards. (Sydney Seshibedi/Gallo Images)
Rihan Richards. (Sydney Seshibedi/Gallo Images)

The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) will likely keep up its fight against Cricket South Africa's (CSA) amended constitution, even in a vacuum.

There was scant resistance to the memorandum of incorporation (MOI) change from within cricket at last Saturday's annual general meeting to allow an independent majority board to control CSA, the company.

The members' council, the "turkeys" who have held CSA hostage to an amateur ethos, also fell in line, going a step further by distancing their elected president (Rihan Richards) and vice (Donovan May) from being CSA directors.

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