CSA shocked by Richardsons Big-3 comment
CAPE TOWN: Cricket South Africa has taken strong exception to a comment made by ICC chief executive David Richardson during his recent visit to Sri Lanka, where he said the Big-Three takeover of the ICC in 2014 was partly due to the inability of CSA among other boards to stand up to India, England and Australia, according to cricinfo.
If he is indeed correctly quoted, his remarks come as a complete shock to us, CSA chief executive, Haroon Lorgat said in a statement. For someone who was actually party to the 2014 resolutions to now make such a disparaging remark to CSA is frankly nonsense and insulting to us.
The CSA Board had from the very outset realised how damaging the original proposals would have been to the global growth of the game and together with Pakistan and Sri Lanka had strongly opposed it. This included CSA making a significant written submission to the ICC Board which had resulted in a number of the original proposals being amended. Thats in fact the reason why we are where we are now. The CSA Board will always stand up for what it believes to be right for the game.
While in Sri Lanka, Richardson had said during a press conference: The international game has gone through a period of turbulence, where the governance, the financial model, the playing (of the game) was in turmoil by the resolutions passed by the ICC in 2014 () what happened in 2014 took place really because unfortunately countries like South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand were not able to stand up to the big boys. I dont think that will happen again.
