Ha! Ha! Still no (official) word on the inquiry. Look forward to catching up with you in Brisbane in a couple of weeks... don't forget to message me. :)
There's an element of farce in this for me, looking from afar. Those players' board has just walked out of an ODI series despite the fact that doing so carries a substantial likelihood that SA will have to pre-qualify for the World Cup. Whatever your views about the financial rights and wrongs of doing so, if the board don't give a toss about ICC events, why should the players? Maybe the WT20 is just an irritating, poorly-paid national interlude before the next franchise pay cheque! At the very best, it's just one more event in a never-ending (and, i suspect, joy-eroding) treadmill of events.
Dear Marek, I honestly believe the players wanted to win - very much. They weren't there just for the ICC freebies and the match fees. Even following your theory based on healthy cynicsm, if they won the World Cup their value as individuals in the freelance market would have soared. The problems are far more deep-rooted.
"Two Sides to every Dutch Story"
I was worried there for a while that this article was going to be double-dutch...
But really no chance of that with your articles; always clear and concise.
But big chance of that with any CSA inquiry :)
Ha! Ha! Still no (official) word on the inquiry. Look forward to catching up with you in Brisbane in a couple of weeks... don't forget to message me. :)
There's an element of farce in this for me, looking from afar. Those players' board has just walked out of an ODI series despite the fact that doing so carries a substantial likelihood that SA will have to pre-qualify for the World Cup. Whatever your views about the financial rights and wrongs of doing so, if the board don't give a toss about ICC events, why should the players? Maybe the WT20 is just an irritating, poorly-paid national interlude before the next franchise pay cheque! At the very best, it's just one more event in a never-ending (and, i suspect, joy-eroding) treadmill of events.
Dear Marek, I honestly believe the players wanted to win - very much. They weren't there just for the ICC freebies and the match fees. Even following your theory based on healthy cynicsm, if they won the World Cup their value as individuals in the freelance market would have soared. The problems are far more deep-rooted.