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- Cricket South Africa has filed a formal dispute with the International Cricket Council regarding the canceled Australian tour.
- Australia was supposed to tour South Africa, but chose to exit the trip citing concerns about Covid-19.
- The canceled trip is expected to have huge financial implications for CSA.
Cricket South Africa (CSA) tense relationships with Cricket Australia (CA) regarding the canceled test tour, they will undergo further testing after CSA has filed a dispute with the International Cricket Council (ICC) dispute resolution council on Tuesday.
Australia announced earlier this month that its three-test tour of South Africa, which was expected to begin in late February, would not take place over concerns around the safety of the coronavirus.
CSA has been openly frustrated by the decision ever since and has written to CA and the ICC to express that frustration, but it emerged on Tuesday that the matter has now been raised further to the ICC in the form of a formal request for intervention.
In a letter to ICC Executive Director Manu Sawhney that Sport24 As you’ve seen, CSA Acting Executive Director Pholetsi Moseki asked the game’s governing body to determine the validity of whether Australia’s reasons for canceling the tour were acceptable.
“Based on both our correspondence with CA and recent media reports, it is also obvious that the respective parties disagree on whether cancellation amounts to ‘Acceptable Default,'” Moseki wrote.
This step comes after CSA first approached the ICC on February 4 to consider whether the cancellation of the tour that was supposed to take place next month by CA was reasonable, in good faith and whether the action (cancellation of the tour) was an “acceptable default”. or “unacceptable breach” in terms of the 2019-2021 World Trials Championship ”.
Now CSA is pressuring the ICC to act in accordance with the rules (terms of competition) applicable to the World Testing Championship (WTC), of which this series was to be a part.
Moseki, in the last letter to the ICC, refers to the following clause of the WTC:
“In the event that a notification is made in accordance with Clause 7.1 and the relevant Parties cannot reschedule the Tour, Series or Match (s) in question within the Competition Window, and subsequently cannot reach an agreement on if the failure to comply with the obligation to participate in the Tour, Series or Match in question constitutes an Acceptable Default within thirty (30) days after the receipt by the ICC of a notification in accordance with Clause 7.1 above , then the ICC will request a Security Report in accordance with the process established in Annex 4. “
The letter adds that if the ICC considers that the decision could be an ‘unacceptable compliance’, it should:
1. Immediately appoint an independent security consultant from the ICC roster (or more than one such consultant if the issues raised require reports from consultants with expertise in different fields) to review and investigate the issues cited by the relevant Party with regarding said Match or Series.
2. The consultant or consultants appointed pursuant to paragraph 3 shall conduct a full and thorough investigation (including consultation with the host country’s security authorities and consideration of any security advice received by a visiting member of their government agencies. , to the extent that such information is provided to the ICC for consideration by the consultant or consultants) and will prepare a detailed report (“Security Report”).
3. Unless the ICC agrees otherwise, the Security Report will be submitted to the ICC within five (5) days after the appointment of the consultant or consultants.
CSA Member Council Acting Chairman Rihan Richards confirmed that the organization wrote to the ICC to seek clarity regarding what could happen to CA regarding the canceled tour.
“For certain specific reasons, you are allowed to cancel games and there are regulations on this and Covid-19 is one of them. It also says that it should provide the basis for why it is canceling, ”he said.
“It will have an economic impact on us, but we can bounce back if we have another tour that could become mandatory for them regardless of the outcome of it, as long as it is in our four-year cycle.
“The perception that has been created is that SA cannot do its Covid-19 task and we cannot create a biosecure environment. It has a great impact on affiliates and can affect everything within their structures.
“We were very discouraged by the action.”
