CRICKET South Africa (CSA) has appointed Enoch Nkwe as the Director of Cricket, the board announced yesterday.

Nkwe replaces Greame Smith, whose three-year term came to an abrupt end in March earlier this year following racism allegations which he was later cleared of. Nkwe had previously been named the interim Team Director in 2019 before Smith took charge, relegating him to the assistant head coach role of the national side.

Nkwe, whose professional career with the Lions and Gauteng ended following an injury, had played 42 first-class games, 38 List A games and has nine T20 caps. In 2016, Nkwe joined the Netherlands team as the assistant coach.

In 2018, he took over as head coach of Highveld Lions winning both the CSA T20 Challenge and the first-class competition in his first season in charge. Nkwe, an A Level IV coach, also led Jozi Stars to the inaugural Mzansi Super League title in 2018 as head coach and later in the year was the assistant coach of Vancouver Knights in the Global T20 Canada where the team finished runners-up.

Besides Nkwe, CSA have also announced three more appointments to the board who will form a part of the organisation’s executive team. Mtunzi Jonas takes over as the Chief Commercial Officer, Tjaart van der Walt has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer while Wanele Mngomezulu comes on board as the Chief Marketing Officer. (Cricbuzz)