GAVIN RICH: Cricket must learn rugby’s path to success
While cricket dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons last week, national director of rugby Rassie Erasmus was putting the finishing touches to the Springbok management team for next year and the Blitzbokke sent out a message of intent by winning the first leg of the HSBC World Sevens Series.
Why do I squeeze those disparate elements into one thought process? Because though they may seem unrelated, there is a need to assess the direction one sport appears to have taken and relate it to the path being followed by the other. Perhaps then we can better understand where cricket went wrong and what is needed to put it right...
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