Patrick Moroney isn't often seen in a jacket and tie, and that's good. Because the last thing South Africa need as the outcome of the CSA board's regressive hankering for the bad old days of selectors is the appointment of a damn fool suit.

Moroney was named on Thursday to the oddly titled position of "convenor selector for the Proteas men's team", effective August 1. Cricbuzz has established that the post is fulltime and that Moroney has been contracted for three years.

A release said he would "report to Enoch Nkwe, [CSA's] director of national teams and high performance, and work closely with the head coach". Now there's a relief. A good chunk of South Africa's success is owed to Nkwe's meticulous work, and Shukri Conrad has proved himself unarguably the most competent person in CSA's employ.

Much like Nkwe and Conrad, Moroney has come through the structures. He has been a high school director of sport and marketing, worked on talent identification programmes, served as convenor of selectors for the Lions, and for CSA's academy, emerging and under-19 teams.

"His deep understanding of the game, combined with decades of experience in talent identification and selection across various levels, makes him the ideal person for the job," the release quoted Nkwe as saying.

Moroney was also a member of the last national men's selection panel before it was scrapped in January 2023. Since then squads and teams have been picked solely by head coaches.