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Loading ...I suspect KP could probably make a compelling case around limited opportunities in South Africa due to racial quotas… however I would guess it is as simple as the ECB paying a hell of a lot better than its counterparts in South Africa.
Three lions of South Africa
By Will 3 years ago, mid-July Add your comment below
First there was Kevin Pietersen. Then a growing army of South Africans, fed up with their lot (and what a lot…), joined him over here as part of a growing band of Kolpakians. Allan Donald was soon poached – and now Jonty Rhodes is next. What ever is going on in South African cricket?
I think it’s great having Donald and Rhodes over here. I don’t believe a foreign coach is necessarily a bad thing, but you do have to wonder how and why South Africa are unable to employ such high-profile former players.
“As with the rest of the support team we want the right person to do that job,” said England coach Peter Moores. “When we’ve got the right bloke we can look to bring him in and see how he goes. We have seen that in other specialist positions for coaches.
“We are talking about people who could make a genuine difference to international performances – and they don’t always grow on trees. If we get a fielding coach we want him to influence fielding in England not just at England level.”
From Cricinfo.
Tags: allan-donald, jonty-rhodes, kolpak, kolpakians, south-africa, south-africans |
2 Responses to “Three lions of South Africa”
July 9th, 2007 at 2.01 pm
July 24th, 2007 at 3.52 pm
“What ever is going on in South African cricket?”
The question should be: “What is going on in South Africa”.
No South African with half a brain would stay in that god-forsaken country if they had a chance to live somewhere else. It’s the murder capital of the world and ravaged by AIDS to boot.
Why would you want to live there, or have your kids grow up there?
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