Donovan May has been given an 18month window of opportunity to
restore the bruised and battered image
of Eastern Province Cricket and to put
the sport’s administration at St Georges
Park back on an even keel. Normally,
the newly elected president has a...
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Donovan May has been given an 18month window of opportunity to
restore the bruised and battered image
of Eastern Province Cricket and to put
the sport’s administration at St Georges
Park back on an even keel. Normally,
the newly elected president has a twoyear term in which to make his mark.
For May, there is not that luxury. A
costly arbitration process brought by
five disgruntled Nelson Mandela Bay
cricket clubs resulted in the highly
contentious October elections of last
year been declared invalid, and at a
special general meeting at the end of
March, May was voted back into the
hot-seat.
As a former President of EP Cricket and
a successful businessman in Port
Elizabeth, May has walked this road
before. In an exclusive interview with
SportElizabeth,Maysaidhe’dpulledno
punches at his first EP Cricket Board
meeting with his fellow directors. “I
told them that the boat is sinking and
that we have to take this boat (EP
Cricket) forward. I reminded the Board
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