yuppie wrote:mikesiva wrote:I believe Duminy has earned his place, as has Ashwell Prince, and Makhaya Ntini....
But who knows what resentment breeds beneath the surface?
it's hard to determine exactly what Kallis said, but it certainly wasn't friendly banter. And one of the commentators said that it wasn't the first time Kallis and Boucher were combining to get up Duminy's nose....
It just seemed to be a bit overboard, IMHO.
From what you are saying Mike i would agree.
More of an Issue for SA is the possible divide within their team. Kallis and Boucher teaming up against Duminy, how do the players deal with that when the national team gets back together?
If other players have had to deal with this, could this be a reason why SA fail at the final hurdle in major championships? How can a team have cohesion if some players resent others because they dont think they deserve their place?
I think that might just be why the Saffers are falling down at that final hurdle....
Lest we forget, apartheid was only abolished in the early 1990s. Players like Kallis and Boucher would've grown up playing whites-only cricket, and it's probably unreasonable to expect them to suddenly change overnight. There is bound to be some baggage carried over from that unfortunate era....
And who knows what might have been said behind closed doors? Duminy comes from an area with a large 'coloured' population, as those of mixed-race are called in South Africa. The 'Cape Coloureds' have a strong identity of their own, and maybe in the dressing room some differences of opinion might've been expressed on the direction of cricket in South Africa, which is, inevitably, political.
This is pure conjecture on my part, of course, but it's not completely unreasonably conjecture, is it?
Nobody has a stance quite like the mighty Shivnarine....
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