A South African cricket row has spread to the international arena with Johannesburg shunned for most of the top ICC Champions Trophy fixtures this September and October.
South Africa will play their three Group B fixtures at 20,000-capacity Centurion Park beside the highway linking Johannesburg and Pretoria and defending champions Australia go there for two Group A games.
The showdown between Asian giants India and Pakistan is also scheduled for Centurion plus a semi-final and the final as a split between Cricket South Africa and its Wanderers-based Gauteng affiliate deepens.
Wanderers can accommodate 11,000 more spectators than Centurion and Gauteng officials claim the original fixture list had South Africa playing two group games there and that the final was also scheduled for the "Bullring".
England (twice), Australia, Pakistan and India will appear at Wanderers, but Sri Lanka, West Indies and New Zealand are unlikely crowd pullers.
Gauteng stirred a storm last month by accusing chief executive Gerald Majola of putting CSA at financial risk and requesting details of an agreement between the national body and the Indian Premier League.
