These were my thoughts at the ODI WC, but SA just had a major overhaul of coaching and middle management, and I think it's been pretty clear since before we even got confirmation of that happening that the new admin had been talking to de Villiers. The team plans are totally new, and have always involved him IMO.Would've been great if he'd just said he's taking a break and now wants to come back. Retiring then coming out of retirement randomly throws so many team plans into disarray. It's ****ing ridiculous.
Quick PEWS post that pictureBe funny if somehow SA got to the test championship final and he made himself available for that
Lol “on certain terms.” It’s playing for your ****ing country, not signing a T20 franchise deal. You either do it or don’t. This back and forth bull**** is crap.Just to be clear here, de Villers is still retired. The SA coaches, captain and admin have tried to coax him back (this included the WC debacle!). And he has said he will consider it under certain terms. Which is 100% correct, particularly if you follow anything regards the administrative bull****, CSA failures and the problems within the SA structure, you would know this is a big part of why he retired.
So this is all well within a perfectly understandable attitude when the CSA is the one causing all the issues not de Villers, he is not the one coming with cap in hand. And if you feel he should bend over backwards and take it, for some nationalistic bull****... I`m not allowed to write what I think of that.
I’m sorry, but the fact you have given Chris Gayle a free pass here means YOU ARE A MASSIVE, BIASED HYPOCRITE!!AB is always awesome and folks questioning his commitment to the RSA team are just biased idiots with some other agendas really.
And he is not playing for his country, he has retired and stayed retired... other people are begging him to play. He is willing to consider it but on conditions he considers acceptable, and if you look at how CSA has handled cricket in SA you can see why.Lol “on certain terms.” It’s playing for your ****ing country, not signing a T20 franchise deal. You either do it or don’t. This back and forth bull**** is crap.
I’m sorry, but the fact you have given Chris Gayle a free pass here means YOU ARE A MASSIVE, BIASED HYPOCRITE!!
Taking a high profile management position and deciding to play a few games of cricket are different thingsYou seem to be saying he is the one making a big deal out of it... he is not. Other people approached him, they want him, he has not gone on about it. And the media have made a big deal about it (they are the ones talking prodigal sons etc.). All that has happened is there has been leaks (not from his side) that the new management (and coaching) at CSA approached him and asked him to come back. He is willing to consider it provided he does not walk into the **** storm and stress that CSA was providing.
This exact same discussion could be had surrounding Graeme Smith, who up until a few months ago refused to become the director of cricket in SA, because he was not happy with the general management and problems going on and so would not sign. Many of our best retired players who we have all been begging to come and help coach and participate, were not involved with SA cricket until recently. And this all only happened because 1/3rd of the board resigned and the president was put on suspension, we are talking extreme maladministration and corruption here. Smith has been signed on a 3 month contract on the excuse he had IPL commitments, but we all know that he is only willing to sign a 3 month contract until he is certain that things have actually changed for the better. But we berate de Villers because he wants the same guarantees, he has nothing left to prove to anybody he gets to dictate his own happiness.
He is being tarnished with a brush not of his own making, without anybody considering the larger picture of what is going on. The automatic assumption is it is about greed and ego from him, when it quite clearly is not. He does not need CSA in anyway to get more money or more fame.
You failed to individually list them and set out your grievances one by one. I’m afraid that just shows how biased you really are.
Honestly, the way AB carries on is giving me the ****s.He can end it with one press release ffs.