The Cricket South Africa (CSA) will not be taking any further action on the way in which Director of Cricket (DOC) Graeme Smith and men's head coach Mark Boucher was appointed.
The CSA board chair Lawson Naidoo while speaking to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts and Culture said that the DOC and the head were appointed by the previous board in December 2019.
"The DOC and head coach were appointed in December 2019 under the previous board. It is clear from the (SJN) report that there were irregularities in those processes. Those appointments were subsequently endorsed and ratified by the then board. Our hands are tied in terms of those processes," Naidoo said.
Naidoo further explained the reason why Smith and Boucher were not suspended.
"It's important to state, and this applies to all the legal processes we are involved in, we will follow due process. I can assure the portfolio committee that the board took legal advice on whether that (suspension) was possible and we received the legal opinion from two senior lawyers," Naidoo said.
"They advised us that there was no legal basis to suspend Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith. The board took a unanimous decision not to suspend because it would open us up to unnecessary litigation."