CSA request ICC Intervention After Australia Pull Out of Tour
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Cricket South Africa (CSA) wrote to the International Cricket Council (ICC) seeking redress for less wealthy countries, after the withdrawal of Australia from the three-test tour of the country.
Cricket Australia (CA) said that the team will not move on the recommendation of medical experts, despite the fact that the government of South Africa has removed restrictions on Covid-19 and a sharp drop in the number of cases in the country.
CSA said its dissatisfaction resulted from the fact that they had acknowledged all the tourists' safety demands still the guests made the unilateral decision of not to tour.
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"There's got to be some understanding of how we manage the impact to less-wealthy nations," Stavros Nicolaou, the chairman of CSA's interim board told ESPNcricinfo.
"Unilateral decisions of this nature are punitive to less-wealthy cricket-playing nations and there has to be some discussion around redress."
CA chief executive Nick Hockley last week defended the decision to postpone the South Africa trip, saying that "weight of medical advice and our duty of care to players and staff meant we were really left with no alternative".
