Piedt ‘happy’ to get county cricket stint
The spinner is awaiting offers for his services as Kolpak player in UK
The transformation debate veered away from one of its dominant narratives on Tuesday when Dane Piedt was reported to be "happy to play (county cricket) as a Kolpak". That would preclude him from representing SA for as long as he was on a Kolpak contract. It would also make Piedt that rare thing: a player of colour who has sought to further his career in another country. White players have been far more likely to take that route, and often they are followed by a chorus of criticism of the quota selection policies that underpin efforts to transform the game. Former SA allrounder Jacques Kallis would have earned approval from that lobby for the tweet he posted after Keaton Jennings, the son of apartheid-era wicketkeeper Ray Jennings and a former captain of SA’s under-19 team who moved to England four years ago, scored 112 on his Test debut against India in Mumbai on Thursday. "Yet another one slips through our system," Kallis wrote, perhaps referring to the fact that Simon Harmer, Stia...
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