Crickets great leap forward Luke Alfred BL Premium | Business Live | 17 June 2021 Does Saturdays
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Cricket’s great leap forward Luke Alfred BL Premium | Business Live | 17 June 2021 Does Saturday’s landmark AGM suggest a ”new dawn” for the sport? At one minute to midnight on Saturday, the interim board of Cricket South Africa (”CSA”) left the stage. That board had arrived when patient cricket was close to organ failure, and left after easing it onto its feet. At the moment SA cricket is shuffling unsteadily towards the future, on crutches. It might yet sprint as it once did, but that would be a premature diagnosis. On Saturday morning, at CSA’s first AGM since 17 September 2019, the interim board oversaw the transfer of power, its final act. Supported by a new constitution, a new board of 15 was elected, with a majority of eight independent directors. Much has been made of the independents’ role, some of it legitimate, some hot air, but suffice it to say that the eight are now cricket’s governance guardians. Whether they will be able to wrestle the sport’s endemic culture of mediocrity into shape remains to be seen. These eight new independent directors are Lawson Naidoo, Steven Budlender, Simosezwe Lushaba, Muditambi Ravele, Mark Rayner, Andisa Ntsubane, Norman Arendse and former opener and convener of selectors, Andrew Hudson. As befits SA cricket’s love of grandstanding, the election of the eight – appointed by a nominations committee of six headed by the Institute of Directors SA’s Muhammad Seedat – wasn’t without drama. Applications ran into their hundreds and the members of the nominations committee, which included former CSA president Ray Mali and former Test bowler David Terbrugge, were hard-pressed to complete their work before the AGM itself. Neither was the AGM without incident. Objections arose from the floor about Arendse’s fitness to be board chair. Boland’s president, Angelo Carolissen, implied – he didn’t mention Arendse by name – that given Arendse’s role as past CSA president, he was unfit for the current role. And Arendse was indeed around when now disgraced former CSA CEO Thabang Moroe was appointed. For a moment, the AGM stalled. Attending the virtual meeting as a member of the media, you got the sense that this was a moment of potentially far-reaching consequences. After Michael Katz, the architect of CSA’s new constitution, had been called and Seedat had dealt with being blind-sided by Carolissen and others’ objections, the impasse was deftly handled by Stavros Nicolaou, the chair.
Discuss the function of the nomination committee in light of the objection raised regarding the fitness of Norman Arendse to hold office as board chair.
CSA had held its last AGM two years previously. Explore the reasons why the delay was problematic, especially given the issues it has been facing.
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