Endangered Proteas
When washing the car or mowing the lawn is more fun than watching cricket, it’s time to take stock of why failure is the ODI default mode for the national side
German playwright Bertolt Brecht was fond of saying there are no naturally occurring famines, they are all man-made. In analogous vein, we might say that disasters don’t occur naturally in the cricket world, either. They have to be formed, sometimes with painstaking ineptitude, and the latest meltdown has been years in the making.
One could, for instance, trace the seeds of this most recent disaster to the last World Cup in 2015. In that tournament, SA lost in the semifinals to New Zealand, whereupon Haroon Lorgat, then CEO of Cricket SA (CSA), launched an investigation into why the team didn’t win the damn thing...
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