Questions over AB’s surprise England move
Lorgat seemingly caught off-guard by batsman’s withdrawal from series
A week is a long time in politics, but not nearly as long as 24 hours in cricket — particularly not if the cricketer in question is AB de Villiers. On Tuesday, minutes after De Villiers had confirmed he would be unavailable for SA’s test series in New Zealand in March, Haroon Lorgat was asked what the chances were of De Villiers playing in the tests in England in July and August. "What we are doing and what we have tended to do is to take it a series at a time," Cricket SA’s CE said. "I’m confident that by the time we look at England and the Champions Trophy, he’ll be fully fit, raring to go. "His appetite will have returned, because then it would be a fair amount of time that he would have had. "I know family circumstances change people — having children and being at home for a while will make him very relaxed. But I’m confident that England is the type of series he will want to be involved in." On Wednesday, De Villiers shattered that confidence by saying that he had taken his nam...
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