No room for backbone

Us against the establishment: So much for a new era in which the players are supposedly considered shareholders in South African cricket
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Ken Borland

South Africa’s cricketers were probably contemplating their increased earning potential and a healthy relationship with Cricket South Africa (CSA) when their groundbreaking memorandum of understanding was unveiled a month ago. But the last week has been a traumatic one, with the players feeling that the board has turned on them.
It all came to a head with Jacques Kallis’s exclusion from the squad for the Twenty20
World Championship, which South Africa’s premier cricketer has taken as a slight on his ability - not forgetting the wad of money (about R280,000, or £19,000) he will lose out on by not playing in the tournament.

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October 19th, 2007

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