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Graeme Smith in the running to become South Africa’s first director of cricket

Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith is in the running to become the country’s first director of cricket, a post for which he has been interviewed by the Cricket South Africa board, according to a report on ESPNcricinfo. The interviews were conducted by a five-member board panel, which included the CSA chief executive officer Thabang Moroe. The new position, which was created following the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019, will see Smith competing with Corrie van Zyl, who was originally appointed to the position, albeit in an interim capacity, before being suspended, and former national selector Hussein Manack. Along with the world of experience of having played the sport at the international level, Smith also brings some corporate experience, having served in the corporate social responsibility team of the financial services firm Momentum, who are also the sponsors of the domestic one-day competition. Van Zyl and Manack present strong candidacy credentials themselves. While the former has been Cricket South Africa general manager since 2009 and was even their head coach during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2011, Hussein was a national selector from 2012 until the conclusion of this year’s edition of the…

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Cricket units ready appeal to CoA

Several affiliated associations of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have decided to write to the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) pointing out various discrepancies in the implementation of the Justice Lodha Committee reforms and that election cannot be held till the apex court decides on the pending applications. This has been necessitated by an advisory issued by the CoA clarifying certain aspects of the disqualification rule and cooling-off period that have cast a cloud over voting rights of several members in the BCCI and its member associations. The elections have to be completed by September 28 but the state units want a change in schedule after the CoA asked them to ensure that the six-year tenure cap for officials included the time spent by them in the working committees of their respective bodies. At least 15 units were part of a teleconference on Tuesday evening and included the likes of former BCCI president N. Srinivasan and Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) chief Sourav Ganguly. On Wednesday, the CAB decided to defy the CoA directive. “We won’t go by the latest CoA directive… We’ll abide by the Supreme Court order,” Sourav…

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