'This is exactly what we as fans felt all along,' remarked Mohamed Saleje, at a popular restaurant where matches are shown live on television for mainly Indian and Pakistani fans in the suburb of Fordsburg.

Salejee was commenting on remarks by minister Stofile that cricket was an asset belonging to all South Africans, not to the CSA or GCB.

A peripheral controversy that resulted from the spat between the two bodies was a number of local cricket associations representing the Black, Coloured and Indian communities threatening to form their own provincial body after they claimed that GCB was not doing enough to transform cricket from its previous Whites-only status in the apartheid era.

This has also been addressed in the resolution of the dispute, as CSA and GCB have agreed on steps to transform cricket in the province.