What shoul SA do when their ENG exports come running back to SA?

[jboss]

I just realised the Kiswatter(spelling) may not have an opportunity after all to play for ENG one day. Using him as an example should SA welcome him back when he realises that Prior has many years left as wicketkeeper? He has alreasy epressed no intrest in playing for SA and I feel that may come back to haunt him.

[G.I.Joe]

What makes you assume they'd go back to SA anyway?

[four_or_six]

I just realised the Kiswatter(spelling) may not have an opportunity after all to play for ENG one day. Using him as an example should SA welcome him back when he realises that Prior has many years left as wicketkeeper? He has alreasy epressed no intrest in playing for SA and I feel that may come back to haunt him.

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[jboss]

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You did not read. I asked when his decision comes back to haunt him. I bet he will not be able to play as wicket keeper for England as Prior is probably going to have the job for a while. I am sure he will regret the decision one day.

[four_or_six]

You did not read. I asked when his decision comes back to haunt him. I bet he will not be able to play as wicket keeper for England as Prior is probably going to have the job for a while. I am sure he will regret the decision one day.

It's a shame for South African cricket in the future if he's got no hope of playing for England and yet he'd be such a shoe-in for South Africa that he'd regret not playing there.

Anyway, he's got ties over here. He's got a British parent and he went to school here for some time, I don't see why he shouldn't choose to play for England if he wants to.

[Richard]

Anyone confident that Prior is going to be keeping wicket for England for a long time would do well to watch more than just last summer. He was acceptable then, which was a damn relief, but it was a good start and no more. Before then he'd been diabolical and it is far from inconceivable that he will be so again in future.

[GIMH]

He wasn't diabolical last winter

[GingerFurball]

I just realised the Kiswatter(spelling) may not have an opportunity after all to play for ENG one day. Using him as an example should SA welcome him back when he realises that Prior has many years left as wicketkeeper? He has alreasy epressed no intrest in playing for SA and I feel that may come back to haunt him.

Jeez, there's a couple of South Africans of British descent/parentage playing for England, get over it.

[Richard]

He wasn't diabolical last winter

I can only presume you missed the Fourth Test (was officially the Fifth) in West Indies - well OK that wasn't the winter it was the spring, but it was the UK off-season, which is what is generally referred to in-whole. Prior's performance there was as bad as you're ever going to see from a Test wicketkeeper, and yes he'd been perfectly decent in the first 4 matches of the off-season but that's precisely the problem there's always been with him - he has 2-5 perfectly decent matches then 1 utter, rank shocker. It happened in 2007, it happened in 2007/08 and it happened in 2008/09. And the shocker is generally so bad that the 4-5 OK games can't excuse it. You cannot have a Test wicketkeeper who is so bad with such regularity, even if he's OK when he's not said so bad.

[zaremba]

I just realised the Kiswatter(spelling) may not have an opportunity after all to play for ENG one day. Using him as an example should SA welcome him back when he realises that Prior has many years left as wicketkeeper? He has alreasy epressed no intrest in playing for SA and I feel that may come back to haunt him.

I expect he'll be treated in much the same way as Ryan McLaren. Ie if he's good enough, he'll get into the SA team.

[zaremba]

I can only presume you missed the Fourth Test (was officially the Fifth) in West Indies - well OK that wasn't the winter it was the spring, but it was the UK off-season, which is what is generally referred to in-whole. Prior's performance there was as bad as you're ever going to see from a Test wicketkeeper, and yes he'd been perfectly decent in the first 4 matches of the off-season but that's precisely the problem there's always been with him - he has 2-5 perfectly decent matches then 1 utter, rank shocker. It happened in 2007, it happened in 2007/08 and it happened in 2008/09. And the shocker is generally so bad that the 4-5 OK games can't excuse it. You cannot have a Test wicketkeeper who is so bad with such regularity, even if he's OK when he's not said so bad.

Yeah he was dreadful in the summer as well. All those dropped catches cost us the Ashes.

[Richard]

Not entirely sure why you needed to post that TBH as I'd already said as much in my previous post.

[zaremba]

Not entirely sure why you needed to post that TBH as I'd already said as much in my previous post.

Because I hadn't read it TBH

[BoyBrumby]

I expect he'll be treated in much the same way as Ryan McLaren. Ie if he's good enough, he'll get into the SA team.

Quite so. One of three ex-Kolpaks (Langeveldt & Harris the others) who currently paly for SA. The county championship is clearly a finishing school for South Africa.

[Richard]

Because I hadn't read it TBH

Read threads not posts, young man.

(And that normally applies in descending rather than ascending order too!)