Post by weststigersbob on Feb 27, 2019 6:13:37 GMT
Jayasuriya - didn’t really admit to anything earth shattering at all. Failure to hand over a phone is no smoking gun. However, like a few other countries, what is classed as ‘corruption’ in International circles might not be classed as such in Sri Lanka.
Olivier and Kolpak - I have absolutely no sympathy at all for South Africa in this situation. Cricket in RSA does 2 things very, very badly.
1. Is that they get decidedly less money from Asian TV than other nations, including New Zealand and Bangladesh. Why, I’ll never know, but they do. And 2. The idiotic reverse apartheid quota system. Instead of picking the best 11 based on merit, there is limits to how many whites can be picked. It’s 5. Shockingly, if a player doesn’t think he can make into the five regularly, he signs a Kolpak deal for more money than RSA would pay him anyway. There’s a reason why middle class white cricketers are leaving the country in droves, and Kolpak is a massive incentive.
Olivier and Kolpak - I have absolutely no sympathy at all for South Africa in this situation. Cricket in RSA does 2 things very, very badly.
1. Is that they get decidedly less money from Asian TV than other nations, including New Zealand and Bangladesh. Why, I’ll never know, but they do. And 2. The idiotic reverse apartheid quota system. Instead of picking the best 11 based on merit, there is limits to how many whites can be picked. It’s 5. Shockingly, if a player doesn’t think he can make into the five regularly, he signs a Kolpak deal for more money than RSA would pay him anyway. There’s a reason why middle class white cricketers are leaving the country in droves, and Kolpak is a massive incentive.