Cricketers’ chief Tony Irish barred from CSA meeting
The players association CEO earlier said they had not been consulted by the CSA which plans to implement austerity measures and redesign the domestic game to break even
London — Relations between administrators and players crashed to a new low on Thursday when Tony Irish was barred from attending a Cricket SA meeting. As CEO of the SA Cricketers’ Association (SACA)‚ Irish is a regular figure at the CEOs’ meeting — which is held two or three times a year and involves the affiliate CEOs‚ Cricket SA’s executive and SACA. But Irish is not at the current meeting‚ which started at a Sandton hotel on Thursday and will continue on Friday. Independent sources told Business Day that Irish had been barred‚ which he confirmed adding: “SACA will make a fuller statement on that at the appropriate time.” Asked why Irish had been excluded‚ a Cricket SA spokesperson said that “those reasons will be flashed out to the media at [Friday’s] press conference”. Cricket SA said on Saturday they would implement austerity measures and redesign the domestic game to try and alleviate the effects of what CEO Thabang Moroe told parliament in October could amount to losses of ...
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