The quota system will bring success, joy and happiness to the South African cricket team.
South Africa is a nation of 50 million people, about 45 million of them are coloured, so bringing the game to them is what is going to secure the future of South African cricket.
That the South Africans have done so well with only one good black player, and one good coloured player is a real testament to how well the 5 million have performed, but imagine them with a whole nation of 50 million to choose from.
Also by playing coloured players who aren’t good enough to get a game, it means that for the next 10 to 15 years at least they will be ©rapper than they should be.
The quota system is way cool, because it confuses liberals who want black people to be given more of a chance but don’t think that it’s fair white people should be discriminated against.
Conservative types are confused by it too, as on the face of it it’s white guilt gone mad and they can rant on about it for hours, but its also a ruling that sh1ts them to the very core of their Reagan/Thatcherisms.
With a new world order in South Africa, we all know that one day all the whities will be run out of town, and only the darkies will be left, so shouldn’t they be giving the darkies a chance whilst the whities can guide them.
Makhaya Ntini was once a quota selection.
And could you imagine a South African side with just white dudes in it, I mean how much do you (by that I mean me) hate them already, so that would take it to a much higher level.
The quota simply must stay
lol..I didnt know the whites were only 5 Million. So the pool of players, its just the size of New Zealand or so given the equal dominance of rugby in both nations. Yet South Africans way out perform. Jrod, I thought the quota was bad however. For the sole reason Nel will have to resort to incest or whatever else instead of going bezerk at the battsmen and popping capillaries.
Deepak.Probably about 2.8 mill whites in NZ.
Thats very very small. Thanks for the GK. Do Maori get any quota?
Thankfully no Maori quota. If there was, Parore would probably be a 100 test captain by now.Maoris have never really played cricket; preferring either variety of rugby. Although several Maoris have excelled in golf in recent years, not just Michael Campbell.Cricket here has traditionally pretty white middle / upper-maiddle class sport (the rich sail yachts or play hockey). And the South Island has always held sway.Look arounf club cricket these days and it’s gradually changing, and the NZ side today is far more cosmoplitan than ever before. In fact there are 4 ex Palmerston Nth players in the last XI. PN is the NZ equivalent of Gosford; only smaller and less interesting.We have a son of a Samoan immigrant (Taylor), our captain’s father is Italian, Patel is a 3rd generation Kiwi of Indian stock, How has a pepper sprinkling of Maori in him, Sinclair is an Aussie, and Gillespie is White Trash.
Leg Break does Jesse Ryder have a bit of Maori?
Ah yes, forgot about Jesse.He’s got a fair bit of Maori in him (more than How)He’s also got some Irish in there somewhere in case you hadn’t guessed…BTW, both he and Taylor grew up together in a place called Masterton (pop 20,000) which had never previously produced a test cricketer. Also from there is another batsman called Greg Todd who is knocking on the door.
How could you forget Jesse.Masterson: that’s probably it for them in terms of test cricketers for the next 100 years then.
Brendon Bracewell (the saner part of that family) lives there, and takes a lot of them under his wing.During one of Jesse’s teenage derailments he looked after him for the winter and got him carrying rocks up a hill on his farm to help build some mythical wall…
A mythical non-existent wall? Brendon Bracewell sounds a hard taskmaster, giving Jesse such a Sisyphusian thing to do!