YOU are cricket’s transformation watchdog, and you have the power to bring lapses in Cricket SA’s (CSA’s) efforts to make the national team look more like the country to the notice of the highest authorities. In fact, you have already done so. And you would be forgiven for thinking the authorities have taken enough notice of your proactiveness to hand you a responsibility you considered theirs.A ministry statement on Tuesday, after a meeting between Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula and Cricket SA’s board on Monday, said there was "general agreement that glaring gaps and inadequacies in the policy that are in conflict with the sports barometer and transformation charter" were being seen in cricket.Asked what those gaps and inadequacies were, sports department spokesman Esethu Hasane said: "In most cases these are raised by the public in terms of a Proteas team that is still not as reflective (of the demographics of the population) and that transformation is slow."What the minister mean...
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