It is obvious Cricket SA prefers the longer version, maybe not of the game (considering they will host Australia for only two test matches this summer), but in terms of administration.

The bonus scandal is now entering its second year and has moved only as far as Inzamam-ul-Haq used to, even if there was an easy single on offer.

So far there has been an internal inquiry, a vote of no confidence in Cricket SA president Mtutuzeli Nyoka, a court case leading to his reinstatement and a forensic audit.

The advantage between CEO Gerald Majola and Nyoka has swung like Dale Steyn on a cloudy day and, still, no one is sure if the ball will hit the top of off stump or go screaming down the leg side.

Legal advice will be the third umpire. KPMG have identified that Majola had possibly infringed the Companies Act because of improper disclosure, essentially calling Cricket SA's procedures wide.

The Khan Commission found the same problems with methods used to allocate event bonuses, but stopped short of stumping the organisation. The lawyers might have quicker hands.

If the breaches of the law are so serious that they reflect more than just negligence, more than just a slip of the foot over the bowling crease, but an intentional no-ball, the consequences could be dire.

The last time such an infringement was committed, the protagonists, Pakistan's Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, were slapped with lengthy bans. Asif's age meaning his sanction was potentially career-ending.

It could be the same for Majola.

Or it could go the other way.

Majola is world cricket's longest-serving CEO and, like Jacques Kallis, is resilient.

He will not be bullied by bruising bouncers, yanked from his crease with an inswinging yorker, or squeezed for singles until he plays a loose shot.

He will endure and, while doing so, will accumulate.

Majola has seen Cricket SA through its most profitable years, raking in more than R700-million in revenue in the past one.

With cricket on such a good wicket, Majola has backing and the people who support him have difficulty seeing him as dishonest.

They are more likely to believe he has been naive in his handling of bonuses, as the Khan Commission said.

His no-balls, they will say, have been like Morne Morkel's, involuntary and unplanned.

Majola's case is unfairly strengthened by the character of his rival. Nyoka's controversial past in the game, particularly during his time as president of the Gauteng Cricket Board, sullies his reputation as a man only looking to uncover corruption.

The past 12 months have seen Nyoka prowling the point region mercilessly, causing Majola to keep backing up in case of a run-out.

It could all have been avoided had Cricket SA simply declared those bonuses initially.

That would have been their biggest show of respect to cricket.