by Arthur Crabtree » Mon Jun 22, 2015 5:39 pm
I don't think having SA v Eng games is in itself suggestive of an unhappy camp. It could even indicate a side humorously at ease with itself. But what matters is that CK felt it represented a divided team and it unsettled him. There is also the suggestion of the side divided by Test and ODI players, which could be just put down to human nature. Or KP's stated division between batters and bowlers, which could be used positively by the coach, as it was by big Duncan. The problem is the divisions made some feel excluded and unwelcome. And as Craig says, his game became more and more inhibited, which really is the problem that the ODI side is currently wrestling with and the key to their dwindling performances from 2012-2015.
I always say that everybody's right.