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Like the rest of the sports world, the South African cricket team has not been spared from the financial impact of the Coronavirus outbreak. On the 16th of March, all cricket in South Africa was cancelled for the next 60 days, which saw the cancellation of the One Day Cup as well as the Four Day Cup. On an international level, the men's tour to India was called off without a single ball being bowled, while the women's inbound tour of Australia has already been cancelled. Sri Lanka are the second nation due to tour the country for the women's tour and even that series is on the line, with a final decision only to be taken six weeks before the tour. Fortunately, however, Cricket South Africa president, Jacques Faul has announced that as of now there are no plans in place to cut the players' salaries, at any level of the game. He warned that this could change in future, but at the moment, the players can rest easy. "For now we've budgeted for the amount. It...

Cricket South Africa announced sweeping new measures for the 2020-21 cricket season, ostensibly to cut costs spent on domestic cricket. The biggest change will see the First Class and One Day Cups adopt a rather strange format where there will now be two groups of three teams, instead of the old round-robin format. Having seen how unpopular the Conference system proved to be in Super Rugby, CSA has decided that it would serve as the ideal format for their restructured domestic system. Essentially, each team plays the teams in their conference or group twice, once at home and once away. Then they face the team in the opposing conference one. Presumably, the home/away will alternate every year, for cross-conference matchups. One advantage this system has over the Super Rugby equivalent is that teams will still face each team in the competition. Largely due to the fact there are so few teams in the domestic set-up. Another advantage is that with the conferences likely to be set accord...