South African rugby has suffered these last few years, what with every provincial and Super 15 team forced to have a certain number of non-White players. Yes, there are good non-White players and they would have made the sides regardless of their race. However, when you start dictating the number that has to included in the team, then that's when the sport goes down the drain - because for every undeserving player selected, a deserving player is turned away.
And so the Black race-baiters in South Africa have turned their laser vision on the SA cricket team. They hauled the convenor of selectors Andrew Hudson in front of them to explain why he hadn't played a specific BLACK player. Currently, each time the South African national team or a provincial team trots on the field you will have noticed that they always field at least 4 non-Whites in the team - come hell or high water. Even if they have to use the garden boy to make up the forth quota player, the team must have 4 non-Whites at a minimum! And now we hear that the South African cricket team's non-White players aren't Black enough, with most of them being Coloured (mixed race). South Africa also has a SA born Muslim player in the squad, Hashim Amla. But Amla is in the team on merit. South Africa has also fielded a Pakistani....but currently no blacker than black African Black player has made the squad.
So, Andrew Hudson has been rapped over the knuckles and "re-educated" to select a true Black African into the squad. A clue to this is in the article:
"After a long and intensive debate, he left more enlightened and informed about what is required from the selectors in terms of transformation. He has been sensitised to make sure the selectors deal with transformation in the most appropriate way in future."Who cares if a Black-Black player isn't good enough - the other players can carry him mos!
And just like rugby, cricket will feel the effects of all this political interfering a few years down the line.....No one dare ask these racist geniuses where all the predominantly Black international successful sport teams are in South Africa. Why? Because, just like unicorns, they don't exist.
Hat tip: Fred T
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| Hey, you racist Whites, give me my place in the team now! |
Hudson and his fellow selectors had been criticised for their handling of wicketkeeper Thami Tsolekile, who was given a national contract last year and was assured he would be given an opportunity in the Test side during the current series against New Zealand.
Instead, Tsolekile was dropped from the squad, having not been given an opportunity to play a single Test on tours of England and Australia, with key batsman AB de Villiers being entrusted with the gloves as the current successor to Mark Boucher.
"Andrew Hudson was invited to address us and he explained the selectors' thinking in detail," Basson said.
"After a long and intensive debate, he left more enlightened and informed about what is required from the selectors in terms of transformation. He has been sensitised to make sure the selectors deal with transformation in the most appropriate way in future."
Basson confirmed that a mandatory number of black African players was being considered by CSA for franchise and national teams.
"The target at the moment is four blacks for franchise and national teams, but a stipulation for black Africans will be coming as part of the strategy of the transformation committee," Basson said.
Basson acknowledged that more needed to be done at the higher levels of cricket in terms of transformation, but he said this had to be part of "a natural, bottom-upwards process".
"Transformation at school and club level is far advanced - more than 60 percent of players are black at those levels. Transformation is still in progress at national level, and our efforts have been recognised by the minister of sport.
"But we're now looking at three levels of transformation because they all have different requirements - national teams, franchises, and schools and clubs. The pipeline needs to flow in a natural, bottom-upwards process."
According to the acting president, Hudson defended the exclusion of Tsolekile because De Villiers was a much better batsman than the 32-year-old Highveld Lions wicketkeeper.
"Andrew explained to us the problems faced by the selectors in ensuring the team remains at the highest level and balancing that with the sensitivities of selection in ensuring there are necessary opportunities for everyone," Basson said.
"He said it had been a case of AB de Villiers's tremendous batting ability being more valuable than Tsolekile's outstanding wicketkeeping, and that, according to Andrew, Thami understands the position 100 percent.
"But the foundation has been laid for much better communication between the selectors, players and the board than in the past."
Basson also confirmed that the appointment of a black African national selector was "in the pipeline" and they were calling for nominations.
Former Proteas and Knight bowler Victor Mpitsang is reportedly the most favourable candidate.
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I don't know why whitey is still playing any sport for this black racist country...
ReplyDeletechange all teams to all-black (pun intended) players only...only then will this communist country be properly represented...
Where are all the race liberals now? We are all supposedly equal, but blacks live under different rules. This ongoing free pass they get for blatant racism is amazing. When will blacks in SA stand on their own 2 feet and stop riding on the coat tails of everyone else????????? Or are they incapable of meeting standards unless they're lowered for them? When will they learn that forcing themselves on rest of society never works.
ReplyDeleteHow many white soccer players in Bafana Bafana? I demund that the players selected for Bafana Bafana accurately represent the racial demographics of the SA population. If this demund is not immediately met, we white people will take pangas, knob kieries and sharp sticks and will toi toi outside SAFA headquarters, then we will barricade the surrounding streets with burning tyres, set some cars alight and burn down a school or a library or something.
ReplyDeleteWell, then they'd get one white player into the team. Who cares anyway? No one apart from the sheeple watch that useless team. They can keep it. Whites should stick to swimming as the ANC hasn't quite worked out how to enforce quotas there yet.
DeleteQuotas in national teams are bullshit. I don't really like them in provincial sport either, but the national team must be picked on merit. And what is this about having to pick black Africans? I thought the idea of transformation was to give those "previously disadvantaged" (ie non-white) players a chance at selection. Specifying what ethnicity of PDI needs to be picked is racism, finished and klaar. Imagine the uproar if the American sprint team were told that they had to select a white sprinter in their squad.
ReplyDeleteBut Hudson and the selectors shot themselves in the foot on this one. Thami Tsolekile has been around the cricket scene a long time, he is 32 which means he isn't going to be around much longer. When they announced the national contracts last year they decided in their wisdom to give him a contract. Most cricket followers, myself included, were perplexed, given that Tsolekile does not rank among the best keepers in SA - probably fith or sixth in line at best. It then became obvious that they were never going to pick him, and maybe hoped that by giving him a contract they were trying to give the impression of "transforming" the team. There has been growing pressure for them to select him recently, given his standing as a nationally contracted player. This wouldn't have happened if they didn't give him a contract in the first place.
Yup - no good deed goes unpunished!
DeleteHell, what can one say about the seletion. A Hudson has the right to chose the right player, but not in SA. They, blacks MUST be included, no matter what. I agree with TB, give it to them, they deserve it, they even invented it. The board is now SANC Cricet.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Then cricket can go the way of Bafana Bafana. Maybe whites should stick to swimming. At least there they can't use floatation devices to compete!
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DeleteWell,players shoul be selected to the SA cricket team based on their talent,previous performances,but not on their colour of skin,we now see less talented Rory kleinfeldt play instead of much talented kyle abbot,and Johan botha has left the country because Rodin gets the chance due to his race,farhaan is playing but not david miller because the former is a non white,I dont know why white players keep their mouths shut on this issue?
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