Just as Cricket SA was patting itself on the back for having foiled a match-fixing plot, doubts began to emerge. Is Gulam Bodi really Mr Big of the latest verneukery or, like Hansie Cronje, is he merely a convenient, fessed-up villain?Bodi, declared Cricket SA chief executive Haroon Lorgat with an air of triumphalism, had been caught in the "planning phase" and "no fixes had been activated".If that is so, why has Cricket SA allowed Thami Tsolekile's name to be bandied about as an alleged fellow conspirator?The organisation, of which Tsolekile has been a poster boy, has been left in a limbo of suspicion. Cricket SA has not lifted a finger to either help him, or condemn him. The poor man has just been left in the lurch and under a cloud.And if Cricket SA had indeed nipped the whole devious business in the bud, why are there rumours about match-fixing still swirling around? There is talk that at least another 18 cricketers are being investigated.The trouble with Cricket SA's story that it had caught Bodi before he could do any real damage is that we have only Cricket SA's word for it. Sadly, that is not enough.With whom was Bodi planning and what fixes had been planned? We don't know because, in the time-honoured tradition of inquisitions, the evidence has been hidden. The secret inquiry held by Cricket SA will remain so and the cricket public will just have to bloody well put up with it.The matter has been reported to "the authorities", said Lorgat. Which authorities? The local constabulary, the NPA, the JMPD?Perhaps even Wayne Minnaar knows more than the rest of us ticket-paying cricket fans.Cricket SA grumbles that the media always want to know everything. Of course. That is their job and it was an investigation by the media (the BBC and Buzzfeed) that alerted slumbering and complacent tennis authorities to match-fixing on the eve of the Australian Open.The media are also CSA's only reliable connection with the public. Or is the undertone to its attitude to the media that Cricket SA would prefer to keep the paying fan in the dark. Bugger the public, is the message being put out. They don't need to know.That's the problem with Cricket SA: its credibility is low. It took the organisation three months to finally confirm what was already hot gossip on the cricket grapevine: that a Proteas player was too drunk to board a plane from India on the way home from a tour in November last year.Contrast Cricket SA's obfuscation and dissembling with what is common knowledge in Australia.Cricket Australia, backed by that country's federal police, has been speaking to unregulated offshore bookmakers to ensure that its hugely successful Big Bash T20 remains free of match-fixing (unlike its South African equivalent, the Ram Slam).If this sounds like talking to Islamic State, it isn't. For a start, the bookies don't have suicide bombers and could alert (we hope) the cricket authorities to suspicious betting patterns.The Aussies believe that as much as R34-billion was bet on the Big Bash this summer. We don't even have a figure for the Ram Slam. Betting is part of sport today, so it's good to get them on side. Has Cricket SA done so? We might never know...