By Sanjeev “Mahatma” Ghandi
To South Africans high profile global sporting events are like a drug which they take to forget seething issues bothering them, fleetingly. And, after a semblance of unity and non-racialism, where South Africans of all races patriotically behind their team, fades the old problems resurface furiously.
Once again this has been demonstrated by the painful elimination from the ongoing 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup in New Zealand at the hands of the host country’s team, the Kiwis.
The issue of Transformation, which caused fissures in rugby structures, has not dominated cricket, where merit appears to be the main criteria of selecting players, with a similar intensity.
But now things might change. The Cricket South Africa, the country’s cricket governing body, is planning to increase the number of black players in all franchise cricket to six from next season, including at least three black Africans, and to make the quota seven black players, including four black Africans, in the semiprofessional teams.
Some organisations say the plan is set for failure, arguing that the CSA is trying to fix something that is broken.
Commonsense is not common indeed! why fix what does not need to be fixed. This is another path to destruction like Eskom. Leave cricket to cricketers Komrades!