Cricket South Africa Members' Council - the highest-decision making body within the organisation, which consists of the 14 provincial affiliate presidents - will not appoint the interim board imposed on them by sports minister Nathi Mthethwa, leaving the game in limbo. The Members' Council have written to Mthethwa to raise "material concerns," over the interim board and stressed that they "are not prepared" to let the interim board do its work.

This decision goes squarely against Mthethwa's directive and may result in the minister intervening in CSA, as he threatened to last month. Mthethwa has the power to withdraw funding from CSA and to strip them of their status as the governing body of cricket in South Africa.

The interim board have confirmed that they have received a letter from the Members' Council which raised concerns about how the interim board was constituted and over conflicts of interest in relation to one member, Haroon Lorgat.

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