Cape Town – The board of Cricket SA (CSA) had “failed to exercise leadership”, members of Parliament’s sports portfolio committee heard on Wednesday.

Briefing MPs on the recommendations of the Nicholson Report, following the bonus and administration scandal that has rocked the cricket body, board member Chris Nenzani said there had been a “lack of oversight” by CSA.

The report, compiled by retired judge Chris Nicholson, found among other things, that now suspended CSA chief executive Gerald Majola had “surreptitiously negotiated the payment of bonuses” totalling R1.8 million, after the hosting of the Indian Premier League in South Africa in 2009.

Nenzani said on Wednesday that the CSA had accepted the Nicholson Report and was committed to sorting out the problems in SA cricket management.

“We made a public commitment… to fix the mess that we have created… I believe the board might, to some extent, have failed to exercise leadership.

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