How is it "clear bias" when Elgar is a far better white ball player and much better filled the role that the dumminy and Morris injuries left in the squad? Due process wasn't followed but it's far from a hard and cut case of clear and primarily bias.
Thank you for your insightful comments in these hard times papa burgey
I really can't be ****ed reading through the 235 page report, was other evidence was bought up that makes this worse then just playing favourites?
Biased towards better players? terrible
Is he though?
Agree with this. I can see how it would happen though. Sometimes you pick players in touring squads for experience but then get a whole lot of injuries and if you were in a situation where you needed to win a decider and could choose a better player over the one originally in the squad, it would be very tempting, even logical, to play the better player.
It was definitely dodgy, but can you immediately just call racism on it, with no other info suggesting that? Elgar does have a far superior record domestic one dayers and was experienced internationally at the time ftr.
hey now you're forgetting senile sentry who after posting normally here for years, outed himself as a hindu nationalist, got banned and self perma'd on return in the space of like ten days or something
Show me one other incident of any other international captain picking someone from the test squad to play ahead of a picked odi batsmen.
Zondo 32@71, Elgar 42@81 in domestic but he's not the clear better batsmen? SA needed somoene who could play as a 6th bowler due to injuries to both Morris and dumminy, and Elgar was a)prefered in that role in the prior A series and b)possessed tons more experience as a domestic bowler. Breaching oroceedire was suspect to put it lightly but it's clear that favouritism isn't the clearest alternative.
Boucher is the only one from that team who's currently in the employ of CSA, so it's possible that Adams was specifically asked if Boucher was one of the players who sang it. While not excusing it, it is a little unfair for Boucher to be singled out when he was also a junior player at the time and therefore not necessarily an instigator.
He mentioned Johan louw in a separate incident. Presume boucher and louw are still involved in cricket and the rest aren't.
What if the structural racism caused him to lose faith in the system? He felt that South African cricket failed him and thus making him willing to sell out the game in order to achieve financial security?
No, they’re not. Obviously not being South African I can’t comment on how the system is or anything but in this particular case, there were viable other options, that the selectors chose (partially because they were better batsmen - blame Gilchrist for that). The selector who testified never mentioned anyone being discriminatory through the process at all, just saying that he voted for Tsolekile and that Smith said look I do my best with the team I’m given.
