Cricket South Africa

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yeah bite size content on youtube about the msl and literally someone at cricket south africa picked me up and gave me a call

Simple as that.

And what did they ask?

But can you talk about how much it's changed South African cricket when the SA20 started? And it's mainly built on Indian money.

Yeah, it's entirely built on Indian money with a little bit of investment from the broadcaster and from Cricket South Africa.

But the SA20, I would probably stick my neck out and say it's probably the reason that South Africa won the World Test Championship.

And I know that that sounds really crazy because they sent a really fourth string side to New Zealand.

Yeah, give us your money and you can have what you like.

You know, the share distribution, the share percentage is absolute nonsense because If only one of three parties, you know, you've got Super Sport, your broadcaster, you've got the SA20 and Cricket South Africa.

But if only one of them, the owners, are putting in money, well, they own it.

They run the show.

And teams were sold really cheap because there was no negotiating, there was no bargaining chip for Cricket South Africa.

They had the facilities.

They said, we can...

The league obviously stands of its owners.

You're 100% right.

I mean, I think it's one thing if Cricket South Africa have been guilty of anything over the past four or five years.

We've had a very poor test cricket sort of schedule arranged.

And for various reasons, some of them, I guess, sit at their desk.

Is that partly because of who shows it? If they're at home, they're shown by the SABC.

Yeah, SABC absolutely.

I mean, you know, Cricket South Africa doing a deal with the SABC, I think it was late last year, where they reinstituted that deal for home international cricket.

And it's been a massive boon.

And finally, Proteas Land first test shirt sponsor in five years ahead of Australia Series.

Cricket South Africa announced a multi-year partnership with Johnson Workwear, giving the Proteas men's test team a headline shirt sponsor for the first time since Standard Bank walked away in 2020.

SAFM's Sportdesk broke the news ahead of Friday's first test against Australia at Kingsmead in Durban, where the side will debut the new kit.

The deal lands at a buoyant moment for SA Sport, with the IOC also confirming South Africa among seven countries interested in hosting the 2036 Summer Olympics.

So without

understanding those exact elective pathways, I would say that what you need is, and Cricket South Africa did this a while ago.

I've served Cricket South Africa for 27 years, and they went through some rocky roads, but there's none of this chaos going on in cricket.

What did they do in cricket? They got rid of the majority of the board members being executive, and they got independent board members elected.

in the majority of the board were independent board members that weren't attached to a province.