CRICKET RUMPUS
Cricket SA slammed for keeping players in dark over future
London — SA’s cricketers say administrators are ignoring worries about the state of their profession despite attempts to find out what is going on. They said that even though Cricket SA had made wider announcements about mounting losses and hatched measures to try and stop the bleeding‚ which the SA Cricketers’ Association (Saca) said would lead to job losses and pay cuts. "Saca has formally written to Cricket SA twice in the last six weeks to express its concerns relating to Cricket SA’s financial position‚" Saca president Omphile Ramela was quoted as saying in a release issued by the organisation on Tuesday. "To date we haven’t received any reply at all to those letters. "It is critical to know the extent of the financial challenge facing cricket and to be comfortable on how that challenge is being dealt with. "The players’ livelihoods depend on cricket’s financial sustainability but this is not only about the players. It is also about the future of the entire game in our country....
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