SOUTH African cricket should brace for a drain of talent and experience in the next two years, due chiefly to a weak currency and the sport’s increasingly complicated politics.Insiders say players are starting to value earning hard currency, and not having to jump through transformation hoops, more than representing their country.Dale Steyn, who has been rested for SA’s tour to the West Indies next month, but is apparently planning to use some of that time to play for Glamorgan in England’s Twenty20 competition, could be the latest example of the phenomenon.Another might have been seen in January, when AB de Villiers declined to deny reports that he was considering retirement, or how to manage his workload in his remaining years as a player.Instead, De Villiers said: "There have been a few rumours floating around, and in most rumours there is always a little bit of truth."None of which surprised Tony Irish, the CEO of the South African Cricketers’ Association as well as the executiv...
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